Winning With Qfx5200 Competitive Guide
Winning With Qfx5200 Competitive Guide
Competitive Guide
40G Optimized
100G Optimized
• Industry Trends
• Juniper Solution offering
• Competitive Landscape
• Scale comparison
• How to win
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Industry Trends
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Evolution Of Next-Gen Data Centers
10G 100G,400G
IP Fabric 25,40G,50G,100G
IP Fabric IP Fabric
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Drivers For Higher Bandwidth in Core
Growth in Video
Cloud
Adoption Streaming
25/50 GbE
Increase in
Ethernet
DCI Traffic
Servers 100GbE
Growth
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Drivers For Higher Bandwidth in Access
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Juniper Solution Offering
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Introducing the QFX5200 Series Switches
Fixed 10 GbE / 25 GbE / 40 GbE / 100 GbE Leaf Switches based on Merchant Silicon
100G 40G
Optimized optimized
QFX5200 Series
QFX5200-32C QFX5200-64Q
25GbE (Breakout Cable, QSFP28) 128 128
10GbE (Breakout Cable, QFSP+) 128 128
40GbE (QSFP+) 32 64
50GbE (Breakout Cable, QSFP28) 64 64
100GbE (QSFP28) 32 32
Power Supplies 850W 1600W
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Logical Scale & Buffer QFX5200 Positioning in Data Center
QFX10002
QFX10008 QFX10016
Leaf
QFX5100 QFX5200
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Competitive Landscape
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Competitive: Juniper SWOT vs Cisco
Overview Competitive
S: Flexible coherent fabric architectures with common building blocks
Product: Nexus 3232c & 3264Q Application flow analysis, High frequency traffic streaming
Flexible forwarding tables
W: Switching market share
O: Junos automation
Same OS on all products
investment protection
• 32 port of 100 GbE or 64 port 40 GbE T: UCS pull through
• Wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports Turn key ecosystem (a.k.a vertical lock-in)
• Rich programmability with support of NX- API
• High availability using vPC technology Attack points:
• Flexibility multi port speeds of 10,25,40,100 GbE
• PowerOn Auto Provisioning (POAP) enables touchless • Too many competing Nexus product line
bootup and configuration • No ISSU support
• Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python
scripting • No vPC peering available with other Nexus models
• Advanced buffer monitoring reports real-time buffer • No MPLS and EVPN support
utilization
• EtherAnalyzer is a built-in packet analyzer • No open SDN controller support listed
• Complete Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol • Battle between VMware and Cisco
suites
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Competitive: Juniper SWOT vs Arista
Overview Competitive
S: Strong internet lineage
Product: 7060-CX, 7260-64Q and 7260-CX Proven efficient DCI/WAN capabilities
Multiple architectures for every deployment scenarios
W: Better market share
O: Mature VXLAN, EVPN & MPLS capabilities
T: Cost, better partnership with 3rd party vendors
Perceived as simple with less complexity
• Multi-speed, supporting 10/25/40/50/100GbE on all ports
• Smart System Upgrade with Hitless Software Upgrade Attack points:
• Self-healing stateful fault repair (SFR) No MPLS, EVPN support yet
• Resilient ECMP and LAG Hashing
• All active multipath using ECMP (up to 128-way) No multi-speed with 7260-CX and supports 40 GbE only
• Single L3 network for all applications Piracy lawsuit with Cisco
Lack of architectural choices and DCI features
Ad-hock management solution: Cloudvision
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Competitive: Juniper SWOT vs Dell
Overview Competitive
Product: Dell Z9100-ON S: Strong internet lineage
Proven efficient DCI/WAN capabilities
Multiple architectures for every deployment scenarios
W: No apparent weakness against Dell
O: Mature VXLAN, EVPN & MPLS capabilities
T: Cost
Attack points:
No support for MPLS, L3VPN & EVPN
• 1RU high-density 10/25/40/50/100GbE fixed switch with Lack of architectural choices and DCI features
choice of up to 32 ports of 100GbE (QSFP28), 64 ports of No cloud management solution
50GbE (QSFP+), 32 ports of 40GbE (QSFP+), 128 ports of
Not an established name in core networking gear
25GbE (QSFP+) or 128+2 ports of 10GbE (using breakout
cable
• Small-scale Active Fabric implementation via the Z9100-ON
switch in leaf and spine
• High-performance SDN/OpenFlow 1.3 enabled
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Scale comparison
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Hardware Comparison
Rack Units 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
Max Switching 3.2 Tbps 3.2 Tbps 3.2 Tbps 3.2 Tbps 2.56 2.56 3.2
capacity (half-duplex)
Max forwarding rate 3.3 1.4 2.9-4.4 2.4 3.3 3.8 2.4
Bpps
CPU Multi-core Dual core NA Quad-core Multi-core x86 Dual core Quad-core
x86
Standard Memory 4 Gb 8 GB 8 GB 16 GB 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB
(RAM)
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Logical Scale Comparison
Ports/LAG NA NA 16 64
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High Level Feature Comparison
Architecture
Features
MC-LAG
Ethernet Fabric L2 Scale out vPC MLAG Junos Fusion
High Availability
In-line Service Software
Upgrade ✗ SSU
Topology Independent
ISSU
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How to win
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Winning with Software differentiation
New Disaggregated Junos Software
Juniper 3rd-Party
JUNOS
Device Guest VM Services Tools
Manager VM
Apps
&
APIs
Container
s
Hypervisor
Linux Kernel
HW Platform
JDM
Juniper Device Manager Junos VM Junos VM
3rd Party
(Junos Control (Junos Control Junos Service 3rd Party
Virtual
Plane) Plane) Function
(vSRX)
…. Machine
Container
Support
Automation Tools Support
Active Stand By
Analytics Tools
Third Party Applications
ONIE
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QFX5200 Key Differentiators
Winning with Proven Value Over Time
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