[j-nsp] Qfabric

[Keegan Holley]

I think Brocade released nearly the same technology a couple of months ago
in their VDX product.  Cisco can't be far behind.  Although, their solution
will most likely be proprietary.  As far as the technology I think
spanning-tree and the current way of doing ethernet has not been ideal for
some time.


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Stefan Fouant <
sfouant at shortestpathfirst.net> wrote:

> It's more than just a competitive offering to compete with the likes of the
> Nexus switches from Cisco, and its also quite a bit different from Cisco's
> FabricPath or other similar TRILL offerings. With FabricPath and TRILL we
> solve the problem of wasted revenue ports associated with complex 3-Tier
> architectures and blocked Spanning Tree ports, but you still have a
> forwarding table lookup taking place on each node along the path. With
> QFabric we have a set of devices which combine to form a singular unified
> fabric, all sharing a single control plane and managed via a single pane of
> glass, but more importantly achieving reduced latency as a result of a
> single forwarding table lookup taking place on the ingress node. With such a
> configuration we can achieve end-to-end Data Center latency on the order of
> 5 microseconds.
>
> There is a lot more to it which is obviously covered in the whitepapers,
> but this is truly something which is going to revolutionize data centers as
> we know it for some time to come.
>
> Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2
> GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC
>
> Sent from my HTC EVO.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Chris Evans" <chrisccnpspam2 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 7:28 pm
> Subject: [j-nsp] Qfabric
> To: "Keegan Holley" <keegan.holley at sungard.com>
> Cc: "juniper-nsp" <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>
>
> Its junipers answer to nexus 5k 2k soltuion with larger scalability
> essentially.
> It has a big fabric interconnect at the core and some routing engines that
> control edge switches acting like remote line cards.
>
> On Feb 23, 2011 7:23 PM, "Keegan Holley" <keegan.holley at sungard.com>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what Qfabric is yet? After the video where Pradeep
> Sindhu
> > spends 1:45 talking about how they are going to change the world and 0:45
> > talking about the technology I gave up trying to cut through the
> marketing
> > buffer. It sounds like their implementation or answer to trill with some
> of
> > the virtual chassis stuff you see from the nexus thrown in. Anyone else
> get
> > more than that?
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