SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Juniper
Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation,
today at its 2015 Innovation Showcase introduced the QFX10000
line of spine switches and the new Junos Fusion® for data centers to
provide industry-leading network scale and automation capabilities. The
new offerings are designed to help public and private cloud customers,
as well as traditional IT data centers deploy small to Internet-scale
networks. The QFX10000 are the first data center switches powered by
Juniper's new Q5 chip, a purpose-built ASIC that enables unprecedented
performance, port density and scale to grow cloud networks as business
demands.
As organizations place more of their business assets, intellectual
property and applications in public and private data centers and clouds,
the network needs to scale rapidly and seamlessly to keep up with
business growth. This is why data center networks are quickly
outstripping the scale of 10G and 40G interfaces and moving to 100G
networks. According to Dell'Oro1, spending on 100GE capable
networking equipment is expected to grow from just over $100M in 2014 to
nearly $8 billion in 2019.
To address this challenge, the QFX10000 line of switches offers
customers industry-leading 10, 40 and 100GE port density, as well as
superior performance and total system scale. Together with the openness
and automation capabilities in the Junos
operating system, the new switches will ensure Juniper's customers
can seamlessly scale their clouds and data centers while extracting
maximum value from their network infrastructure well into the future.
QFX10000 Line Highlights
The QFX10000 line and Junos Fusion for data centers are the latest
addition to Juniper
Networks® MetaFabric™ architecture and can be deployed in
traditional multi-tier networks, IP and Ethernet fabrics as well as
fully virtualized networks to give customers complete deployment
flexibility. The QFX10000 collapses spine, core and data center edge
capabilities into a single platform, significantly reducing network
complexity and CapEx.
This new line extends Juniper's successful QFX Series portfolio to now
include large scale, high performance spine switches, in addition to the
QFX5100 line, which is ideally suited for leaf or smaller spine
deployments. Together, Juniper Networks delivers a comprehensive
portfolio that serves all types of data center networking needs—from
enterprise data centers to the largest private or public clouds.
The QFX10000 line will include three platforms, all of which leverage
the innovative new Q5 chipset.
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Industry Leading Scale and Density for Long-Term Investment
Protection:
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The QFX10002 is the industry's most compact 100GE spine switch,
delivered in a fixed configuration 2-rack unit form-factor with
the ability for customers to upgrade seamlessly from 40GE to 100GE
within the same switch. Additionally, it offers 2 to 4 times the
system and 5 to 10 times the logical scale of competitors' larger
and power hungry switches, resulting in simple, efficient network
designs and reduced OpEx.
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The QFX10008 is a modular, eight slot chassis that delivers ground
breaking 100GE port density and up to 48Tbps of total system
capacity.
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The QFX10016 will deliver unprecedented system capacity of up to
96Tbps, combined with leading port density in a powerful 16-slot
chassis.
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Purpose-built Q5 Chip Delivers Unparalleled Performance for Cloud
Switches:
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The Q5 ASIC sits at the heart of the new QFX10000 switch line and
offers deep telemetry capabilities that boost the analytics and
automation of the QFX10000 line.
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With deep buffers and an architecture that supports diverse,
demanding applications, the Q5 ASIC offers reliable performance,
scalable virtualization for SDN, and logical scale for
applications such as big data, video and IP storage.
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The Q5 ASIC employs hybrid memory cube technology, a highly
advanced capability not found in merchant silicon.
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Open and Automation-Enabled Software Architecture:
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Junos Fusion for data centers is a flexible, open architecture
that shares common switching building blocks with QFabric
System. It enables coherency through automation and manages
the entire data center as a single network rather than individual
network elements.
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Junos Fusion makes it easy to automate the turn-up and
configuration of new networks and reduces the risk of
configuration errors. In conjunction with EVPN/VxLAN, it
simplifies application placement across multiple layers of the
network.
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The QFX product line features enhancements to the Junos
DevOps feature suite that allow customers to write custom
applications in any programming language to interact with Junos.
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The new switch line is designed to make network management and
provisioning simple and automated, with support for a highly
diverse set of automation and orchestration tools, including Junos
Space Network Director as well as industry tools such as
Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and OpenStack.
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Integration with Juniper's Cloud
Analytics Engine automates network troubleshooting and
analysis to reduce operational expenses and maximize efficiency of
the network.
The new switches will be delivered in sequence, with the first platform,
the QFX10002, available in Q2 2015.
Additional 2015 Innovation Showcase News Highlights
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Juniper today unveiled an
enhanced Converged
Supercore®, which includes new custom silicon, updates to the PTX router
and expanded SDN capabilities via the NorthStar Controller. With these
new innovations, Juniper will deliver the industry's most powerful and
optimized core routing platform available to enable service providers
to better connect a world amid explosive and unpredictable bandwidth
demands.
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Juniper also announced the availability of Express
Path, an optimization capability for the SRX5000
Series Services Gateways that will dramatically boost throughput,
reduce latency and improve session scalability for enterprises and
service providers. This new technology enables the SRX
firewall to keep pace with the massive volumes of data traffic on
high-performance networks.
Supporting Quotes
"Network performance, automation and scale are key priorities for
Equinix, and specifically for our cloud interconnection solution –
Equinix Cloud Exchange. With the increasing number of enterprises moving
to the cloud, coupled with security and performance concerns, it's
imperative that Cloud Exchange and its underlying technology, the
Equinix Programmable Network, are based on a highly scalable and
automated network architecture. As a valued network provider to Equinix,
we're excited to see that Juniper Networks is constantly innovating to
meet the expanding network demands of its customers through its latest
QFX Series switches."
- Ihab Tarazi, chief technology
officer, Equinix
"The proliferation and continuing growth of cloud workloads is driving
the need for the next generation of datacenter infrastructure. IDC has
found that enterprise and service provider expenditures on
infrastructure to deliver cloud services will reach $65 billion in 2017.
To accommodate this growing wave of cloud services, datacenter spine
switches will have to support 100GbE at high port densities and at
scale. At the same time, they will be called upon to feature
increasingly sophisticated software capabilities, including
programmability, automated management, and advanced analytics. With the
release of the QFX10000 line and other key automation and architecture
building blocks, Juniper is looking to meet these cloud-driven
requirements for brains and brawn in datacenter spine switching."
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Brad Casemore, research director, Datacenter Networks at IDC
"With the introduction of the QFX10000 line based on the new Q5 chip,
Juniper Networks has significantly raised the industry bar in terms of
network scale, density and performance. The addition of this new switch
line further enhances our existing QFX Series portfolio by providing our
customers with complete choice through our open, flexible and highly
scalable solutions that serve traditional enterprise data centers to the
largest cloud environments."
- Jonathan Davidson, executive vice
president and general manager, Juniper Development and Innovation at
Juniper Networks
"As a leading supplier of data center switches, today's announcement of
the QFX10000 line of switches will be an outstanding addition to our
data center and cloud switch product portfolio and will be a solid
revenue generator for us. More importantly, the QFX10000 line, which
incorporates the new Q5 chip, coupled with Junos Fusion for data centers
is the kind of innovation we expect from Juniper and we expect it to
benefit our customers by providing them with automated, highly scalable
network solutions."
- Leon de Keijzer, chief executive officer,
Infradata Group
Additional Resources
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) delivers innovation across routing,
switching and security. From the network core down to consumer devices,
Juniper Networks' innovations in software, silicon and systems transform
the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can
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Networks (www.juniper.net)
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1 Dell'Oro Group, Ethernet Switch Market Update Q3 2014
