Juniper promises to revolutionise data centre networks with QFabric

摘要

Juniper has unveiled the fruits of its four year $US100m R&D Stratus project to develop a newsingle tier architecture for data centre networks, claiming not only that it enables massively increased efficiencies and lowercosts but thatit will usher in huge increases in available computing power by removing the limitations on multiple computer networks imposed by present day network topologies. The technology now has the official name of QFabric and has three physically distinct components that operate as a single logical entity: the QFabric nodes which are responsible for interfacing to external data centre devices such as servers and storage, via standard interfaces up to 100GBE, the QFabric Interconnect - which transports the traffic between the nodes, and the QFabric director which oversees the operation of the system and which provides a single management interface.