Juniper Introduces QFabric: The Datacentre Fabric

Juniper Networks has unveiled QFabric, the datacentre fabric. An outcome of “Project Stratus”, Juniper’s multiyear datacentre network research and development initiative, QFabric helps deliver improvements in datacentre performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to the large scale cloud provider. Engineered as a simplified, highly scalable datacentre network solution, QFabric enables a superior approach to building and securing virtualised datacentres.

QFabric’s flat architecture also enables an integrated security solution that provides visibility, enforcement and scale across the entire physical and virtual datacentre fabric. QFabric delivers on Juniper’s 3-2-1 datacentre network architecture— collapsing the traditional three-layer network down to a single layer.

“Datacentre compute and storage technologies have advanced over the last decade, and the legacy approach to networking has not kept pace,” said Kevin Johnson, CEO, Juniper Networks. “As cloud computing and the mobile internet accelerate, demand is intensifying for a quantum leap forward in datacentre capabilities. With QFabric, Juniper is transforming datacentre economics by introducing the only network fabric that is able to eliminate multiple layers of cost and complexity.”

“QFabric is an evolutionary path to a revolution in computing,” said Pradeep Sindhu, Founder and CTO, Juniper Networks. “We have fundamentally reengineered the datacentre network, and with QFabric we address the demand for exponential speed, scale, security and efficiency for the next decade.”