Qfx5210 Switch: Product Overview
Qfx5210 Switch: Product Overview
Qfx5210 Switch: Product Overview
QFX5210 SWITCH
Product Description
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
Product Overview QFX5210 Switch’s high port density also contributes to simplified Clos architectures,
eliminating network tiers while reducing complexity and cost.
The QFX5210 Switch is a
flexible, 64-port, fixed- Like other Juniper Networks QFX Series Switches, the QFX5210 supports advanced L2, L3,
configuration switch designed and MPLS features. For large public cloud providers—among the first to adopt 25GbE
for spine-and-leaf applications servers to meet explosive workload growth—the QFX5210 enables very large, dense, and
in next-generation IP fabric fast IP fabrics based on proven Internet scale technology.
networks. Featuring line-rate,
high-density QSFP+/QSFP28 The QFX5210 runs the same reliable, high-performance Junos® operating system used by
ports supporting 10GbE, network operators around the world.
25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE
QFX5210 Deployment Options
connections, the QFX5210
offers an advanced Layer 2, Table 1 shows some of the many QFX5210 deployment options, including top-of-rack
Layer 3, and MPLS feature set. access as well as spine-and-leaf configurations in a centralized or distributed gateway
This allows network operators to architecture.
build large, high-density IP Table 1. QFX5210 Deployment Options
fabrics that support network Port Combinations Deployment
virtualization and intelligent 64x100GbE Spine/leaf
traffic forwarding based on 96x25GbE + 8x100GbE 25GbE access
proven, Internet-scale
technology, while enabling easy The QFX5210 can be positioned as a top-of-rack device in a centralized gateway
upgrades to 25GbE servers. architecture (also known as centrally routed bridging, or CRB). Figure 1 shows the
QFX5210 deployed as an access switch with the Juniper Networks QFX10000 line of
Additionally, the
Switches acting as the spine device configured as a central gateway. In this topology, the
QFX5210-64C-S platform
QFX10000 can also be configured as a collapsed spine and edge device, acting as a central
includes support for SONiC,
gateway for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)-Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), MPLS, and other
continuing Juniper’s
commitment to disaggregation, tunneling protocols. The 100GbE ports on the QFX5210 can be channelized to support
allowing customers to innovate 4x25GbE or 4x10GbE downlinks.
quickly and easily while
simplifying operations.
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• IS-IS (Advanced Services or Premium Services license) MPLS (Advanced Services License)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) v4/v6 relay
• Static label-switched paths (LSPs)
• VR-aware DHCP
• RSVP-based signaling of LSPs
• IPv4/IPv6 over GRE tunnels (interface-based with decap/
• LDP-based signaling of LSPs
encap and firewall-based with decap only)
• LDP tunneling (LDP over RSVP)
• DSCP-based PFC
• MPLS class of service (CoS)
Multicast • MPLS access control list (ACL)/policers
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2 • MPLS LSR support
• Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) v1/v2 • IPv4 L3 VPN (RFC 2547, 4364)
• IGMP proxy, querier • MPLS fast reroute (FRR)
• IGMP snooping Data Center Bridging (DCB)
• MLD snooping
• Priority-based flow control (PFC)—IEEE 802.1Qbb
• Protocol Independent Multicast PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, PIM-Bidir
• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) High Availability
• Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag (SMET)—EVPN Type-6 • Sub-second Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• EVPN—Type-7/8 • Uplink failure detection (UFD)
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• RFC 1901 Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2 Operating temperature 32° to 104° F (0° to 40° C)
Storage temperature -40° to 158° F (-40° to 70° C)
• RFC 2011 SNMPv2 for Internet protocol using SMIv2
Operating altitude AFO models: Up to 6000 ft. (1828 m)
• RFC 2012 SNMPv2 for transmission control protocol using AFI models: Sea level only
SMIv2 Relative humidity operating 5 to 90% (noncondensing)
• RFC 2013 SNMPv2 for user datagram protocol using SMIv2 Relative humidity nonoperating 5 to 95% (noncondensing)
• RFC 2233, The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2 Seismic Designed to meet GR-63, Zone 4 earthquake requirements
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