August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
6h 5m
English
Content preview from Juniper QFX10000 Series
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Preface
This new book is a little shorter than my previous books on the Juniper MX and Juniper QFX5100. That’s because I want to focus on what’s new instead of just writing about the same things in a different way. This book will focus mainly on a few key new technologies: hardware and software architecture of the Juniper QFX510000 and Ethernet VPN (EVPN).
For a while, Juniper had a product gap in its switching portfolio: a high-density, feature-rich data center switch. The Juniper QFX10000 family of switches fills this gap in spades. It has been the most anticipated switch in the company’s history. Juniper spared no expense when designing this new device. As of this writing, it comes packed to the brim with features, including full Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), insane logical scale, and the most 40GbE and 100GbE ports.
The Juniper QFX10000 switch was designed from the ground up to solve some serious problems. Obviously it’s a spine switch, but you’re also able to use it in many different use cases across several different verticals. Here are some examples:
Service provider
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High-scale Ethernet/IP spine switch
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Segment routing core switch
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Internet exchange
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Core or edge/access switch
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Public/private cloud
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High-scale Clos Fabric or spine switch
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Enterprise
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Junos Fusion aggregate device
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Standard Ethernet/IP spine switch
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Collapsed spine switch and edge router
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The Juniper QFX10000 also takes virtualization to heart: under the hood, it uses Linux and ...
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