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I was recently invited to speak at a very nice marketing event conducted by one of our partners, AvanTel Networks.  The event was connected to the premier showing of the new movie “Moneyball,” based upon the book of the same name by Mi…

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After 12 months of design, three years of engineering, and 140 patent applications, QFabric is now shipping.  Right on schedule, I might add—just as we promised back in February at the QFabric launch. Kudos to all the engineers who made it h…

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For years, the primary role of the data center network was to connect users to applications.  Over time—even as these networks evolved from terminal networks (Bisync) to SNA, Token Ring, DECnet and, finally, to Ethernet—their role rema…

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For most of the last four months I’ve been on the road, doing what I enjoy most: talking with customers about the benefits of a data center fabric and the QFabric architecture.  That is the best part of my job, and I haven’t had this m…

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I know it’s been a while since I last had a chance to share my thoughts on this site, but I couldn’t resist this one.  Cisco recently announced its “End-to-End High-Performance Trading Fabric.”  A couple of things abou…

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After
30 years in this industry, I am starting to detect a pattern.  Every so often, a new product comes to the
market that forever changes the industry—and changes what is possible. This is
a rare event; yet in my career, I have had the …

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On March 30, Cisco announced an update to their data
center “vision.”  We are pleased to see
that they have endorsed our view of the problem—that the legacy multi-tiered
data center network architecture must change to enable a…

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Robert
Juric made the following comment to one of my recent blog posts:
 
“You
state, ‘Thus the interfaces to servers and storage should track standards…’,
but why stop at the interfaces to the servers and storage?” Robert wrote. &ldq…

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Robert’s question reflects his perception that the QFabric architecture is a
network and, like any network, he strongly believes that it should be built out
of standard interfaces.  We at Juniper completely agree—networks should be
open.  H…

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For more information, check out our QFabric site to hear what Lawrence Berkeley National Labs has to say.
 
In addition, these whitepapers have more information about deployments in different environments:
 
Migrating to QFabric Data Center …

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Having now disclosed the architecture of QFabric, it is much
easier to answer John’s question.  I have a quick answer here but this is
an important topic and I am working on a blog posting to address this issue in
more depth. 
 
The simp…

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At
last the big day is here!  Juniper has
been talking about the power of a data center fabric for two years, since we
first publicly disclosed the existence of Project
Stratus.  We’ve discussed why we were
building a fabric and wh…

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It is funny how history repeats itself.  This pattern is particularly noticeable when
one has spent more than 30 years in an industry that changes at a light
speed…I’ve seen history repeat itself multiple times. 
 
35 y…

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