Juniper Networks helps enterprises cloud-ready their data centers by applying lessons from cloud computing to increase data center security and efficiencies, achieve economies of scale, improve agility, and accelerate the secure delivery of IT services at lower operational costs.
Juniper Networks' data center fabric solution offers a dramatically simplified two-tier data center network architecture that reduces complexity and improves performance, scale, and data center efficiencies, while lowering overall operational and capital costs.
Network virtualization technologies, based on open standards and simplified security policies, dynamically partition and leverage the network to achieve cloud-like data center efficiency and agility.
Juniper's data center solutions provide dynamic data center security services, including application- and user-aware policies, to help enterprises efficiently secure data flows for a cloud-ready data center security solution.
Juniper Networks' data center solutions provide an open, extensible network automation software that helps eliminate data center complexities, streamline data center operations, and improve management controls for a better cloud-ready data center solution.
A true data center network fabric interconnects thousands of server, storage and other network ports in a flat, ultra-low latency infrastructure that provides any-to-any connectivity, ensuring that every device is a single hop away from every other device.
Since the fabric functions as a single, logical device, it preserves operational construct, performance and simplicity of a single switch while delivering scalability and resiliency of a data center network. A flat fabric-based network architecture also eliminates need for multiple layers of devices, switch-to-switch interactions, and shared network protocols.
Consequently, a data center network fabric dramatically simplifies network management and operations while improving performance, even if the network scales from tens of ports to thousands of ports. Servers, storage, and other data center devices can be seamlessly added to data center because of the fabric's high degree of scalability.
Juniper Networks QFabric technology delivers such a data center network fabric solution that flattens the entire network to a single tier, where all access points are equal, eliminating the effects of network locality.
QFabric architecture also eliminates the need for protocols such as Spanning Tree, TRILL, or SPB while reducing network latency to microseconds, thereby improving the performance of every application in the data center.
By operating as a single device, the QFabric system composed of QFabric Interconnect, QFabric Director, and QFabric Nodes improves efficiency and simplifies operations by dramatically reducing the number of managed components from many to only one.