Douglas Richard - Juniper QFX10000 Series: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Next-Generation Data Centers

by Douglas Richard Hanks, Jr.

Copyright 2016 Douglas Richard Hanks, Jr. All rights reserved.

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This new book is a little shorter than my previous books on the Juniper MX and Juniper QFX5100. Thats because I want to focus on whats 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 companys 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 its a spine switch, but youre also able to use it in many different use cases across several different verticals. Here are some examples:

• Service provider

  • High-scale Ethernet/IP spine switch

  • Segment routing core switch

• Internet exchange

  • Core or edge/access switch

• Public/private cloud

  • High-scale Clos Fabric or spine switch

• Enterprise

  • Junos Fusion aggregate device

  • Standard Ethernet/IP spine switch

  • Collapsed spine switch and edge router

The Juniper QFX10000 also takes virtualization to heart: under the hood, it uses Linux and KVM to virtualize the network operating system (Junos) to reap all the benefits of virtualization, such as snapshots and In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU).

This book is going to show you, step by step, how to build a better network by using the Juniper QFX10000 Seriesits such a versatile platform that you can place it in the fabric, spine, or edge of any type of network and provide instant value. The Juniper QFX10000 was designed to be a network virtualization beast. You can choose between six different networking technologies and support overlay networking directly in hardware with no performance loss.