Re: Article on Juniper QFabric

Both vendor still won't support a third party SFP! what a insane.
Is there anyone who've deployed Qfabric yet in production?

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:

> Ok ok ok - juniper boys settle down - we hear ya -
>
> Here is a breath of sanity on qfabric I found
>
> http://www.mentby.com/chris-evans-2/qfabric.html
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> Karim Jamali
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 4:39 AM
> To: Alexander Halim; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Article on Juniper QFabric
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> I would say it is a much better architecture for various reasons.
>
> 1. With Nexus FEX, the N2K act as line cards & all traffic has to be sent
> to the parent N5K whereas the QFnodes have a routing engine to decide where
> to send the packet.
> 2. There is only a single lookup across the whole system. There is a
> Fabric Header that is added by the QFnodes to determine which QFnode the
> packet should be sent to .
> 3. The system can scale up to 6,144 10GE ports and still managed as a
> single switch.
> 4. Fully converged I/O in terms of connecting the SAN switches to the
> QFnodes.
>
>
> http://juniper.mwnewsroom.com/press-releases/deutsche-boerse-group-selects-juniper-networks-to--nyse-jnpr-0816396
>
> http://newsroom.juniper.net/press-releases/bell-canada-selects-juniper-networks-single-tier--nyse-jnpr-0811293
>
>
> Thank You
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Alexander Halim <cisco.alexand_at_gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It seems similar to Nexus FEX but with much higher port density. But
> > has anyone deployed QFabric in production?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alexander Lim
> >
> > On Jun 2, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Sukhjit Hayre
> > <sukhjit.hayre_at_googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > http://m.zimbio.com/Cisco+Systems+Inc./articles/k8ulf-PRjAg/Juniper+QF
> > abric+smashed+Cisco+dreams
> > >
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