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 QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

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 Course Objectives

 After successfully completing this course, you will be

able to:
•Describe the QFX Series line of switches
•Explore QFX Series key features and technologies
•Discuss the use of Junos Space for centralized management

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 Agenda: QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

 Trends and Challenges

 QFX Series Product Overview
 Key Features and Technologies
 Centralized Management

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 QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

Trends and Challenges

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 Section Objectives

 After successfully completing this section, you will be

able to:
•Describe the pressures and challenges confronting today’s
data center networks
•Provide an outline of the Juniper architectures available to
solve these challenges
•Introduce the QFX Series as a main component of the
Juniper solution

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 Today’s Challenges
 New technologies  Reduce management complexity
 Ever-increasing applications  Accelerate deployment
 Ever-changing traffic patterns  Improve time to value

Increased
complexity!

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 A New Data Center Landscape

The new data center landscape:

• Virtualized
• Spread across multiple,
geographically distributed sites
• Public, private, and hybrid cloud
environments
• Building, connecting, and securing
data centers can be complex
• Architectures optimized for the cloud
era are needed
• Infrastructure needs to provide agility,
automation, and simplicity

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 Network Evolution
Any Orchestration and App/Software

SDN, Contrail, and Open Contrail SDN – VMware NSX

Routing Virtual Routing Virtual

• MX Series • MX Series
and and
Physical Physical
Switching Security Switching Security
Juniper Networks
Any Physical Network

Any Virtual Network

• QFX Series • SRX Series • QFX Series • SRX Series
• EX Series • EX Series
MetaFabric Architectures
Primary Data Center – Private Cloud Public Cloud

Routing Virtual
• MX Series
and
Physical
Switching Security
• QFX Series • SRX Series
• EX Series Secondary
Data Center
Any Server, Any Storage, Any Hypervisor
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 Data Center Fabric Architectures
Highly Simplified Datacenter SaaS, DiY, web-scale
Enterprise SDDC
Layer 2 Scale-out VCF Junos Fusion IP Fabric

Virtual Network
Virtual Chassis | MC-LAG Flexibility | 1/10/40GbE Multi-Fabric LAG | Multi-Version | Open Hyper Scalability

Network Network Network Contrail Cloud Platform

Director Director Director

Junos OS: One common operating system for all fabrics

fighting.
energy
our
to invest
choose
we
where
location
pick the
should
We
<4,260 servers < 1,500 servers <6,000 servers 10,000+

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 Cloud and Data Center Switching Portfolio
Spine-Leaf Platform Scale

Data Center Edge

EX9200 MX Series QFX10000

Spine

QFX5100 QFX10000

Leaf
EX Series OCX1100 QFX5100 QFX5200 QFX5110

Multi-Gigabit OCP 10/25/40/50/100 10/40/100GbE

10/40 GbE
Ethernet Flexibility Networking GbE Deep Buffer

GbE = Gigabit Ethernet

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 Section Summary

 In this section, we:

•Described the pressures and challenges confronting today’s
data center networks
•Provided an outline of the Juniper architectures available to
solve these challenges
•Introduced the QFX Series as a main component of the
Juniper solution

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 Quiz
Learning Activity 1: Question 1
Click the Quiz button to edit this object
 True or false: Attaching more components to existing
architectures that were not necessarily designed for
scalability and flexibility, also introduces more
network complexity.
A. True
B. False

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 QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

QFX Series Product Overview

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 Section Objectives

 After successfully completing this section, you will be

able to:
•Describe the various QFX Series switch models
•Discuss expansion modules and line cards

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 Juniper Networks QFX Series Switches
High-performance, Low-latency Platforms

 Top-of-rack or end-of-row installations

 10-Gigabit, 40-Gigabit Ethernet, and QFX Series Switches
100-Gigabit Ethernet
 For use as standalone switches, or in a
number of architectures

Universal Building Blocks for Multiple Architectures

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 QFX5100 Switches

High-performance Switches
• Designed for data center
deployments
• Standalone, Virtual Chassis, Virtual
Chassis Fabric, QFabric, Layer 3
and Open Clos IP fabrics Several models available
• Virtual Chassis (up to 10
members)
• Can form a mixed Virtual Chassis with
EX4300 switches
• VirtualChassis Fabric (up to 20 QFX5100-48S
members)
• Can form a mixed Virtual Chassis Fabric
with EX4300 switches
• Fiber Channel capabilities
• Can be a Node in a QFabric System
(QFX5100-24Q, QFX5100,48S, QFX5100-48T,
QFX5110-48S, and QFX5110-48S)
Rear View (air flow in model)

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 QFX5100 Models
QFX5100-48S
QFX5100-48T

QFX5100-96S

QFX5100-24Q

QFX5100-24Q-AA

QFX5110-48S

QFX5110-32Q

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 QFX5100 Expansion Modules

EX4600-EM-8F QFX-EM-4Q

8 10-Gigabit SFP+ ports 4 QSFP+ ports

Expansion Expansion
module bay module bay

Accepts single-wide
QFX5100-24Q modules

Accepts single-wide
QFX5100-24Q-AA or double-wide
modules

Expansion
module bay(s) Hot-insertable
Hot-removable

QFX-PFA-4Q Modules and transceivers

must be ordered separately

4 QSFP+ ports

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 QFX5200 Switches

Versatile, High-density
100-Gigabit Ethernet Data
Center Switches
• Designed for next-generation IP
fabric networks for high-volume
traffic in software-defined data 1 model available

center networks
• Interfaces:
• 10–Gigabit Ethernet
• 25–Gigabit Ethernet
QFX5200-32C
• 40–Gigabit Ethernet
• 50–Gigabit Ethernet
• 100–Gigabit Ethernet
• Supports a disaggregated version
of the Junos OS
• Layer 2 networks with MC-LAG, and Rear View
Layer 3 fabric architectures (back-to-front or front-to-back
air flow available)

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 QFX10000 Switches

Future-proofed Spine Switches

Optimized for the Cloud
• Designed for mid-sized to large
data centers, private clouds, and
public clouds
• Can serve as the foundation for
the Junos Fusion architecture
• Four models from 3 to 96 Tbps of
throughput:
• QFX10002-72Q (fixed)
• QFX10002-36Q (fixed)
• QFX10008 (modular chassis)
• QFX10016 (modular chassis)

Models available:
QFX10002-72Q, QFX10002-36Q,
QFX10008, and QFX10016

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 QFX10000 Models

QFX10016
Fixed Configuration and
Modular Chassis Provide
Deployment Flexibility
QFX10008

QFX10002-36Q QFX10002-72Q

• 12 100GbE interfaces • 24 100GbE interfaces • 8-slot • 16-slot

• 36 40GbE interfaces • 72 40GbE interfaces • 240 100GbE interfaces • 480 100GbE interfaces
• 144 10GbE interfaces • 288 10GbE interfaces • 288 40GbE interfaces • 288 40GbE interfaces
• 2 U form factor • 2 U form factor • 1,152 10GbE interfaces • 2,304 10GbE interfaces
• 13 U form factor • 21 U form factor

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 QFX10002 Fixed Configuration Port Panels

QFX10002-72Q

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34
100 100
1
GbE 3 5
GbE 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35

36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70

37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71

QFX10002-36Q

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34
100 100
1
GbE 3 5
GbE 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35

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 QFX10000 Chassis Line Cards

 Both QFX10000 modular chassis can accommodate

any combination of the available line cards
 Support an extensive set of Layer 2 and Layer 3
services
 Supports tri-speed 10–Gigabit Ethernet, 40–Gigabit
Ethernet, and 100–Gigabit Ethernet connections

QFX10000-36Q QFX10000-30C QFX10000-60S-6Q

Hot-insertable Transceivers must be

Hot-removable ordered separately

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 QFX10000-36Q Line Card Ports

QFX10000-36Q

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34
100 100
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35
GbE GbE

• Consists of 36 QSFP+ ports

• Support 40-Gigabit Ethernet by default
• 12 of the 36 ports are QSFP28 capable
• 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports can be channelized to
support 10-Gigabit Ethernet

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 QFX10000-30C Line Card Ports

QFX10000-30C

• Consists of 30 QSFP28 ports

• Support 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet
• Ports automatically detect transceiver type
• *Ports can be channelized to support 10-Gigabit
Ethernet (every fifth port gets disabled)

*Beginning with Junos OS Release 17.1R1

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 QFX10000-60S-6Q Line Card Ports

QFX10000-60S-6Q

60 62 64
61 63 65

60 SFP+ ports

• Consists of 60 SFP+ ports

• Support 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps port speeds
• 2 dual-speed QSFP28 ports
• Supports either 40 Gbps or 100 Gbps port speeds
• 4 QSFP+ ports
• Supports 40 Gbps

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 Juniper Networks Q5 ASIC

500G Full-duplex ASIC

(1 Tbps of switching throughput)

Support for network virtualization with

VXLAN, NVGRE, EVPN, and MPLS

400-Gigabit Ethernet ready

Purpose-built
Supports a wide range of Layer 2
Silicon and Layer 3 Ethernet functionality

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 Section Summary

 In this section, we:

•Described the various QFX Series switch models
•Discussed expansion modules and line cards

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 Quiz
Learning Activity 1: Question 1
Click the Quiz button to edit this object
 True or false: Attaching more components to existing
architectures that were not necessarily designed for
scalability and flexibility, also introduces more
network complexity.
A. True
B. False

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 QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

Key Features and Technologies

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 Section Objectives

 After successfully completing this section, you will be

able to:
•Describe QFX Series performance characteristics
•Discuss the tools and features available to reduce network
management operational burden
•Explore the QFX Series Data Center Bridging and Fibre
Channel capabilities
•Gain an understanding of the use and benefits of
disaggregated Junos OS
•Examine EVPN and VxLAN technologies

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 High Performance

Highly Scalable, High-density Family

of High Performance Switches

1.44 Tbps to 96 Tbps Layer 2 and Layer 3 Performance

QFX5100 QFX5100 QFX5100 QFX5100 QFX5110 QFX5110 QFX10002 QFX10002

QFX5200 QFX10008 QFX10016
-24Q -48T -48S -96S -32Q -48S -36Q -72Q
Spine or Spine or Spine or Spine Spine Spine and Core and Core and
Leaf Leaf Spine
Leaf Leaf Leaf and Leaf and Leaf Leaf Spine Spine
Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to
Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to
2.56 1.44 1.44 2.56 2.56 1.76
3.2 Tbps 2.88 Tbps 5.76 Tbps 48 Tbps 96 Tbps
Tbps Tbps Tbps Tbps Tbps Tbps

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 Automation
Tools And Technologies that Reduce the
Operational Burden of Managing a Network

Open APIs

Security Network
Juniper Networks Takes a Holistic Approach to Network
Director Director

Automation and Orchestration

Open APIs Open APIs

Juniper
Data Center
Infrastructure

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 High Availability
• Common operating system across platforms
• Consistent implementation and operation of control plane features
• Highly available modular architecture

• Topology-independent in-service software upgrade (TISSU)

• Junos OS runs in two separate VMs
QFX5100 • Upgrade software seamlessly, without interruption, on a single switch

• Redundant, hot-pluggable power supplies

• Redundant fan modules
All models

• All central functions are available in redundant configurations

• Redundant Routing Engine (modular chassis)
QFX10000
• GRES, NSR, NSB

As always, check the latest documentation for feature availability and requirements

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 Fibre Channel on QFX Series Switches

 QFX5100, QFX5200, and QFX10000 switches, can

function as an FCoE transit switch
 With FCoE, unmodified FC frames are encapsulated
for transport over Ethernet
•DCB extensions must be supported on the Ethernet network
 No license is needed to use as an FCoE transit switch
As an FCoE transit switch, the switch:
• Is a Layer 2 data center bridging (DCB) switch that can transport FCoE frames
• Implements FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping
• Connects multiple FCoE endpoints to the FC network

QFX10000 switches do not support FIP snooping

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 Data Center Bridging
• A set of enhancements to the IEEE 802.1 bridge
specifications
• Supports I/O convergence in the data center
• Ethernet LAN traffic and FC SAN traffic on the same
physical Ethernet network infrastructure

• Saves cost by reducing the number of networks

and devices
• Reduces the number of interfaces required
• Reduces complexity and administrative overhead

FCoE transit switch functionality is included as part of

the QFX Series default software

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 DCB Features
DCB specifications provide the following:

Standard Description Use

Priority Flow Control Provides a per-priority level flow control I/O and network
(PFC) mechanism to ensure zero loss due to convergence
IEEE 802.1Qbb congestion in the DCB network

Enhanced Provides a common management framework for

Transmission Selection assignment of bandwidth to traffic classes
(ETS)
IEEE 802.1Qaz

DCB Exchange (DCBX) A discovery and exchange protocol for

Extends LLDP defined conveying configuration and capabilities
in IEEE802.1AB among neighbors to ensure consistent
configuration across the network
Quantized Congestion Provides end-to-end congestion signaling and Network wide
Notification per-queue rate limiting for long-lived flows congestion
802.1Qau management

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 Understanding Disaggregated Junos OS
Third-
...

Containers
Junos Guest party
Services APIs
VM VM tools
Apps

Hypervisor
Junos Software
Software Traditionally, software
Linux Kernel was bound to
Hardware platform purpose-built Hardware
hardwareplatform and sold as
Hardware platform
a bundled package
Existing Model New Model
Disaggregated Junos OS

Juniper Device Manager

Junos VM
Guest VM Container
Platform
Third-party Third-party
Independent

SXE Ports

Packet Forwarding Engine

Platform Hardware
(PFE)

Linux — Host OS

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 Benefits of the Disaggregated Junos OS

 JDM provides users with a familiar Junos OS CLI

Benefits of Disaggregated Junos OS

• The whole system can be managed like managing a server

platform
• Customers can install third-party applications, tools, and
services in a VM or container
• Applications and tools can be upgraded by using typical
Linux repositories and are independent of Junos OS
releases
• Modularity increases reliability
• Control and data planes can be programmed directly
through APIs

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 Understanding EVPN with VXLAN Data
Plane Encapsulation
EVPN

• Enables you to connect groups of dispersed customer sites using Layer 2

virtual bridges

VXLAN

• Allows you to stretch Layer 2 connection over an intervening Layer 3 network,

while providing network segmentation like a VLAN, but without the scaling
limitation of traditional VLANs

EVPN with VXLAN Encapsulation

• Handles Layer 2 connectivity at the scale required by cloud server providers

EVPN with VXLAN Data Plane Encapsulation

• Can be used with and without Juniper Networks Contrail virtualization

software

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 What is a VXLAN?
• Virtual Extensible Local Area Network
• Stretches Layer 2 connections over a Layer 3 network by encapsulating Ethernet
frames in a VXLAN packet that includes IP addresses
• VTEPs handle the encapsulation/de-capsulation of traffic transported over VXLANs

VXLAN Encapsulation IP SA = source address

SA MAC DA = destination address
DA MAC
VXLAN
IP IP/UDP IP
SA MAC SA MAC SA MAC
DA MAC DA MAC DA MAC

Terminology
VTEP VTEP
VXLAN
VNI VNI
Host-A Router-A Router-B Host-B

VXLAN Tunnel VXLAN Network

VXLAN Segment
End Point (VTEP) Identifier (VNI)

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 VXLAN Packet Format

 VXLAN adds 50 to 54 bytes of additional header

information to the original Ethernet frame
•You might want to increase the MTU of the underlying
network
•Configure the MTU of the physical interfaces that participate
in the VXLAN network, not the MTU of the logical VTEP
source interface, which is ignored

Outer Outer Outer VXLAN Original

FCS
MAC IP UDP Header Ethernet Frame

IP Packet
Ethernet Frame

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 VXLAN Benefits

 Benefits of using VXLANs:

•Theoretically create as many as 16 million VXLANs in an
administrative domain
•Enable migration of virtual machines between servers in
separate Layer 2 domains by tunneling over Layer 3
networks
•No need to use STP to converge the topology
• All links can be used
• Traffic can be load balanced
• Maximizes performance

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 Ethernet VPN Overview (1 of 2)

 EVPN enables connection of a group of dispersed

customer sites using a Layer 2 virtual bridge

Route
MES1 Reflector MES2

CE1 CE2

DCS1 DCS2 DCS3 DCS4

Data Center 1 Data Center 2

Typical EVPN Deployment

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 Ethernet VPN Overview (2 of 2)

MESs are interconnected using LSPs

Learning between MESs takes place in the control plane rather

than in the data plane

Policies can be applied on the MESs

To carefully control how network info is distributed and processed

EVPNs utilize the BGP control plane infrastructure

Policy attributes of an EVPN are similar to an IP VPN

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 EVPN Feature Availability

•Ethernet connectivity between data centers

spanning MANs and WANs

Available •One VLAN for each MAC VPN

•Automatic route distinguishers

Features •Dual homed EVPN connection with active-standby

multihoming
•Active/active multihoming in Junos OS 14.2R6 and
above and 16.2R1 and above (see note below)

Not •Graceful restart, GRES, and NSR are not supported

in release prior to Junos OS 16.1

Supported •Active/active multihoming is not supported in either

Junos OS 15.1 or Junos OS 16.1

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 Terminology for EVPN

Ethernet VPN
MAC-VRF
Instance (EVI)

Ethernet
Segment Ethernet A-D
Identifier (ESI)

Aliasing

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 Section Summary

 In this section, we:

•Described QFX Series performance characteristics
•Discussed the tools and features available to reduce
network management operational burden
•Explored the QFX Series Data Center Bridging and Fibre
Channel capabilities
•Gained an understanding of the use and benefits of
disaggregated Junos OS
•Examined EVPN and VxLAN technologies

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 Quiz
Learning Activity 3: Question 1
Click the Quiz button to edit this object
 True or false: Junos Space is available in both a
physical and virtual form-factor.
A. True
B. False

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 QFX Series Switching —
Technical Overview

Centralized Management

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 Section Objectives

 After successfully completing this section, you will be

able to:
•Describe Juniper’s network management platform
•Discuss the use of Junos Space Network Director

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 Junos Space

 Network management platform

 Available in two form-factors (physical and virtual)
 Create a fabric to provide scalability and availability

JA2500

 32 GB memory
 6x 1 TB HDD  Same software and functionality
 2U rack-mountable chassis  VMware ESX, VMWare ESXi, or
KVM server

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 Junos Space Management Applications

 Junos Space applications optimize network

management for various domains (core, edge, data
center, campus, and so on...)
Edge
Security Network Virtual
Services
Director Director Director
Director

Cross Connectivity
Service
Provisioning Services Service Now
Insight
Platform Director

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 Network Director

 An Junos Space application that provides a smart,

comprehensive, and automated network management
solution

Visualize Analyze Control

 Helps manage, visualize, and troubleshoot physical

and virtual environments
 Helps address the challenges posed by cloud services
 Works with Cloud Analytics Engine to improve
application performance and availability
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 Section Summary

 In this section, we:

•Described Juniper’s network management platform
•Discussed the use of Junos Space Network Director

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 Quiz
Learning Activity 4: Question 1
Click the Quiz button to edit this object
 What Juniper Networks data center architecture could
be a good fit for a large data center deployment with
around 5000 servers?
A. Junos Fusion Data Center
B. Virtual Chassis
C. Virtual Chassis Fabric
D. IP Fabric

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 Course Summary

 In this course, we:

•Described the QFX Series line of switches
•Explored QFX Series key features and technologies
•Discussed the use of Junos Space for centralized
management

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 Additional Resources

 Education Services training classes

•http://www.juniper.net/training
 Juniper Networks Certification Program Web site
•www.juniper.net/certification
 Juniper Networks documentation and white papers
•www.juniper.net/techpubs
 To submit errata or for general questions
•[email protected]

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eLearning module
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Center to take the assessment and the student
survey
•After successfully completing the assessment, you will earn
credits that will be recognized through certificates and non-
monetary rewards
•The survey will allow you to give feedback on the quality and
usefulness of the course

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