Juniper Networks Introduces QFabric(TM): the Foundation of Data Centers for the
Next Decade
New Paradigm in Data Center Fabric Provides Breakthrough Scale, Speed, Savings
and Simplicity to Power the Cloud Computing Era
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 23, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Juniper Networks
(JNPR) today unveiled QFabric, the world's first true data center fabric. An
outcome of "Project Stratus," Juniper's multiyear data center network research
and development initiative, QFabric delivers quantum leap improvements in data
center performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to
the large scale cloud provider. Engineered as a simplified, highly scalable data
center network solution, QFabric enables a superior approach to building and
securing virtualized data centers that eliminates the tradeoff between quality of
experience and economics that plagues today's legacy networks.
QFabric enables exponential improvements in data center speed, scale and
efficiency by removing legacy barriers and improving business agility. QFabric's
flat architecture also enables the industry's first integrated security solution
that provides visibility, enforcement and scale across the entire physical and
virtual data center fabric. Juniper has invested three years and more than $100
million in research and development to address these constraints, creating a new
architecture that is designed to be the foundation of data centers for the next
decade. QFabric delivers on Juniper's 3-2-1 data center network architecture --
collapsing the traditional three-layer network down to a single, high-performance
layer.
"Data center compute and storage technologies have advanced over the last decade,
and the legacy approach to networking has not kept pace," said Kevin Johnson, CEO
of Juniper Networks. "As cloud computing and the mobile internet accelerate,
demand is intensifying for a quantum leap forward in data center capabilities.
With QFabric, Juniper is transforming data center economics by introducing the
only network fabric that is able to eliminate multiple layers of cost and
complexity."
Juniper's QFabric architecture is up to ten times faster, uses 77 percent less
power, requires 27 percent fewer networking devices, occupies 90 percent less
data center floor space, and delivers a nine fold reduction in operating
resources than the nearest competitive offering(1). Improvements in operating
expenses of this magnitude provide significant benefit to customers coping with
the growing cost of continuing to scale data centers to drive revenue and meet
escalating demands driven by cloud computing and mobile Internet.
"QFabric is an evolutionary path to a revolution in computing," said Pradeep
Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks. "We have fundamentally reengineered
the datacenter network, and with QFabric we address the demand for exponential
speed, scale, security and efficiency for the next decade."
A New Class of Networking Products: The QFabric Product Family
QFabric is composed of three components that create a high-performance, low
latency fabric, unleashing the full power of the data center. The QF/Node acts as
the distributed decision engine of the fabric; the QF/Interconnect is the high
speed transport device; and the QF/Director delivers a common window, controlling
all devices as one.
Available for order today, the Juniper Networks(R) QFX3500 is the first product
in the QFabric family and a stepping stone into the QFabric architecture. It is
also capable of operating as a stand-alone 64-port 10Gigabit Ethernet switch with
FCoE and Fiber Channel gateway functionality. The QFX3500 offers the fastest
unicast and multicast performance in the industry.
The QF/Interconnect and QF/Director will be available for order in Q3.
Juniper's Partners: Advancing the Data Center Juniper partners IBM, NetApp, CA
Technologies and VMware believe that the QFabric architecture will help address
market requirements for data center networking and cloud.
"Our clients have been turning to the IBM Communications Service Provider
Platform to rapidly create new cloud-based development environments and offer new
services. Juniper's push to simplify the network aligns with IBM's vision to
provide customers with a more intelligent and connected business infrastructure,"
said Scott Stainken, general manager, global telecommunications industry at IBM.
Juniper customers such as NYSE Euronext and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
are already seeing the performance gains that the new architecture is able to
deliver.
"Traditional architectures can't deliver the type of mission critical, high-speed
performance our business demands in order to operate most effectively," commented
Andrew Bach, senior vice president, technology, NYSE Euronext. "Juniper's reduced
layer model has shown the capability to provide outstanding results in the
rigorous trading environment of NYSE Euronext's data centers and we're confident
this is the right solution for our business and the millions of customers that
rely on our systems every day."
"Enterprises and service providers must look beyond traditional multi-layered,
complex and inflexible data center networks to deliver on the business
requirement for a more agile IT infrastructure and technical solutions for
virtualization and cloud services," said Mark Fabbi, vice president,
distinguished analyst, Gartner Research. "We're seeing the emergence of a new
concept we call 'Fabric Computing' and a new round of network innovation that
better meets the needs of the next generation data center."
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resources:
Juniper Launch Site and Webcast Juniper Online Newsroom The Network Ahead blog
Architecting the Network blog The Networking and Security Now blog Juniper.Net
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