OEM Junos OS Juniper 10gb Network Switch QFx5210-64C-AFO

QFx5210-64C-AFO

Network operators are increasingly deploying scale-out spine-and-leaf IP fabric architectures built with fixed-configuration switches to support growing east-west traffic in the data center. The Juniper Networks QFX5210 Switch is a next-generation, fixed-configuration spine/leaf switch that offers flexible, cost-effective, high-density 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE interfaces for IP fabric networks, providing deployment versatility, investment protection, and future-proofing for today’s data centers. The QFX5210 Switch’s high port density also contributes to simplified Clos architectures, eliminating network tiers while reducing complexity and cost.

Like other Juniper Networks QFX Series Switches, the QFX5210 supports advanced L2, L3, and MPLS features. For large public cloud providers—among the first to adopt 25GbE servers to meet explosive workload growth—the QFX5210 enables very large, dense, and fast IP fabrics based on proven Internet scale technology.

The QFX5210 runs the same reliable, high-performance Junos operating system used by network operators around the world.

• Flexible connectivity options: The QFX5210 offers a choice of 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE interface speeds for server and intra-fabric connectivity, providing deployment versatility and investment protection.

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• Automation and programmability: The QFX5210 supports numerous network automation features, including operations and event scripts, ZTP, and Juniper plug-ins for OpenStack Neutron.

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• Flexible Forwarding Table: The QFX5210 switch’s Flexible Forwarding Table (FFT) allows the hardware table to be carved into configurable partitions of L2 media access control (MAC), L3 host, and longest prefix match (LPM) tables. Junos OS provides configurable options through a CLI, enabling each QFX5210 to be optimized for different deployment scenarios.

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• MPLS: The QFX5210 supports a broad set of MPLS features, including L3 VPN, RSVP traffic engineering, and LDP to support standards-based multitenancy and network virtualization with per-flow SLAs at scale. The QFX5210 can also be deployed as a low-latency MPLS label-switching router (LSR) or MPLS provider edge (PE) router in smaller scale environments. The QFX5210, along with the Juniper Networks QFX5220, QFX5200, QFX5120, QFX5110, and QFX5100 switches, is among the industry’s most compact, low-latency, high-density, low-power family of switches to offer an MPLS feature set.

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• RoCEv2: As a switch capable of transporting data as well as storage traffic over Ethernet, the QFX5210 provides an IEEE data center bridging (DCB) converged network between servers with disaggregated flash storage arrays or an NVMe-enabled storage area network (SAN). The QFX5210 offers a full-featured DCB implementation that provides strong monitoring capabilities on the top- of-rack switch for SAN and LAN administration teams to maintain clear separation of management. The RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCEv2) transit switch functionality, including DiffServ code point (DSCP) priority-based flow control (PFC) and Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange (DCBX) with Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) are included as part of the default software.