Re: Article on Juniper QFabric

Yes, there are customers in AU/NZ running QFabric in production.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> 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
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > BR
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