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QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect
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Product Overview The QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect provides the high-speed transport that serves as the backplane of a QFX3000-M QFabric System, supporting data centers with up to 16 racks where each rack contains 48 10GbE compute and storage network ports. The QFX3000-M—consisting of QFX3500 and/or QFX3600 QFabric Nodes, the QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect and the QFX3100 QFabric Director—operates and is managed as a single, logical device for supporting the next-generation virtualized and high-performance data center, lowering capital, management, and operational expenses Product Description Juniper Networks® QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect is a fixed, 1 U device that acts as the backplane of a Juniper Networks QFX3000-M QFabric System, connecting any combination of QFX3500 and QFX3600 QFabric Node edge devices in a full mesh topology in 6:1, 3:1, or non-oversubscribed configurations. High availability features on the QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect include three fan trays with a 2+1 redundancy model and redundant AC or DC power supplies. Featuring a switching capacity of 1.28 Tbps, the QFX3600-I offers 16 40 Gbps ports, providing data plane connectivity for the QFabric Nodes. Each QFabric Node connects to the QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect via one to four 40 Gbps interfaces operating over standard OM3/ OM4 multimode fiber optic cables. Similar to the fabric inside a modular switch, there are no connections between the QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnects in the data center; the QFabric Interconnect only provides transport between QFabric Node devices. Four fully populated QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnects can scale the QFabric architecture to support 768 10GbE customer-facing ports, with an aggregate capacity of 5.12 Tbps and average port-to-port latency of 3 micro-seconds. Each component within a QFX3000-M system data path has an average latency of 1 microsecond. The QFX3600-I runs the same Juniper Networks Junos® operating system as other Juniper Networks switches, routers, and security devices. All provisioning and management is done via the Juniper Networks QFX3100 QFabric Director. The control plane between the QFX3600-I Interconnect and the QFabric Director is established over a redundant out-of-band copper or fiber control plane network using Juniper EX4200 switches. The QFX3600-I Interconnect has two copper 1GbE ports and two fiber 1GbE ports, either of which can be used to connect the Interconnect to the Director.

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LCD panel and front overlay Redundant control plane connections Port Side Fan/PS Side Redundant fans Redundant power supplies Figure 1: Juniper Networks QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect QFabric Architecture and Key Components QFabric technology represents the “1” in Juniper’s 3-2-1 data center architecture. It dramatically reduces complexity by delivering any-to-any connectivity while lowering capital, management, and operational expenses. The Juniper Networks QFabric architecture helps organizations realize the full benefit of their investments in server consolidation, virtualization,...

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Features and Benefits Table 1: QFX3600-I Features and Benefits Features The QFX3600-I allows for multi-terabit scaling of the QFabric System. Each system scales to 1.28 Tbps; four fixed QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnects in a QFX3000-M QFabric System architecture allow for a 5.12 Tbps data center fabric, creating an architecture that scales to 16 racks of converged compute and storage data center fabrics. High availability and redundancy The 1 U fixed configuration QFX3600-I QFabric Interconnect has power supplies that are 1+1 load-share redundant; if either power supply fails, the surviving...

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Juniper Networks Services and Support Model Number 650 W DC power supply for EX4550, QFX3500, and QFX3600 (PSU-side airflow exhaust) AC Power Cable - Argentina (10 A/250 V, 2.5 m) AC Power Cable - Australia (10 A/250 V, 2.5 m) AC Power Cable - Brazil (10 A/250 V, 2.5 m) By leveraging best practices from across the industry, you get the maximum levels of QFabric performance, designed and delivered by the world’s leading professional QFabric service experts. Juniper Networks leads the market in performance-enabling services designed to accelerate, extend, and optimize your high-performance...

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