Introduction to Core and Distribution Portfolio

Hello, welcome everybody.
My name is Venkata Duggirala.
I’m Director of Product Management in an AI driven Enterprise.
Today, I will talk about the Juniper Enterprise Campus Core & Distribution Portfolio.
Here’s a quick look at the enterprise campus switching portfolio and the access part of the portfolio.
We have the entry level EX2300, all the way up to EX4400.
However, today, I’ll focus on the distribution and core starting with the EX4600, EX4650, QFX5120, and finally, the modular EX9200 platform, all of which are supported in MIST Cloud Wired Assurance.
So, let’s take a look at the EX series core distribution portfolio.
So to start off, let’s talk about the entry level compact distribution switch, which is, the EX4600.
It comes in four flavors, all of which support 24 ports of 10G Ethernet and 4 ports of 40G in built.
There are two additional modules or slots where you can insert a 8 port 10G module or 4 port 40G module.
Those 40G ports can further be broken into 4 ports of 10G with breakouts.
On all giving you 72 ports of 10G with breakout, otherwise 14 ports of 10G ports.
These four SKUs also come in AFO, AFI, airflow out, airflow in, and AC/DC.
The target customers for this product will be small enterprises or small locations for medium and large enterprises where you need up to 24 ports of 10G downlinks to be connected to access switches in a distribution role.
The main benefit of this switch is that it supports 10 member virtual chassis.
It gives a scalable layer 3 distribution and core.
You can start building out your network with this in many of the smaller location if you need to introduce a distribution layer.
Now, a step above the EX4600 is the EX4650.
Now, this one is a compact 25/100G distribution switch.
The downlink support, these are 48 ports of 10G/25G.
And on the uplinks, you can have up to 8 ports of 100G or 40G.
Those ports, the 100G ports can be broken into 4 ports of 25G or 4 ports of 10G if used as a 40G port.
Now, these are targeted for small/medium enterprises and smaller locations for any large enterprise, especially when connecting to access switches with 25G uplinks.
This is all available in 1RU in four SKUs: AFO, AFI, as well as AC/DC.
Another benefit of this platform is not only does it support 4-member virtual chassis but it also supports EVPN-VXLAN L2 and L3 gateway.
It gives support group based policy and hence micro segmentation and provides an easy transition to a 25G network, 25G and 100G uplink sort of network.
Step about that, again, is the QFX5120.
This is a product of our portfolio from the data center where we see this getting used in campus networks as well.
It’s a versatile product family for distribution and core as it has multiple other SKUs.
48Y is very similar to the EX 4650.
provides 48 ports of 10G/25G and 8 ports of 40G/100G.
In addition, this portfolio supports QFX5120-48YM for 48 ports of 25G in same configuration, 8 ports of 100G but this supports MACsec on AES256 on all ports.
Another SKU is the 32 port 100G on the QFX5120 which basically provides 32 ports of 100G fiber and two 10G copper ports.
Now, only the 48YM supports MACsec.
The rest of the SKUs do not support MACsec.
All of these come in AFO/AFI and AC/DC.
And last but not the least is the QFX5120-48T, which supports 48 ports of copper 10G base T ports, where you can just plug in copper RJ45 UTP cable.
And it also supports 6 ports of 40G or 100G QSFP/QSFP28.
Now, this is a versatile portfolio with all these variations in 1RU ideally suited for an enterprise which is small and medium and also some of the smaller and medium locations with a large enterprise.
This product also supports EVPN-VXLAN L2 and L3 gateway just like the EX4650, two-member virtual chassis on these platforms, and there’s a ton of flexibility with 1G/10G/25G/40G/100G port densities.
Again, the main benefit of this product is, it enables new architectures like the campus fabric, EVPN-VXLAN.
It supports scalable layer 3 functionality and provides an easy transition to 25G and even 100G with its 100G SKU.
Now, let’s start talking about the EX9200.
This is a modular platform which comes in three form factors: EX9204, which is a fiber replatform; EX9208, which is 11RU; and EX9214, which is a 16RU platform.
Now, all these are modular chassis designed for resiliency.
So you can have dual RE and complete separation of control plane, data plane and management plane.
These are, basically, built on Juniper customized silicon.
It’s called Junos Custom One.
It’s a programmable microprocessor, meaning any protocols or technologies that come in future can be programmed and made available providing investment protection to our customers.
These platforms support EVPN-VXLAN L2 and L3, and redundant control plane and data plane.
The line cards that are supported on this portfolio are the 15C, which is 15 ports of 100G/40G and that supports AES256 MACsec.
EX9200-12Qs, which is, 12 ports 40G, which also can be used for 100G of 4 ports.
EX9200-40XS, which provides 40 ports of 10G and that supports AES256 MACsec as well.
And there’s a MPC card which is for modular port concentrator which can take smaller daughter cards, namely the 10XS-MIC, which provides 10 ports of 10G, two of these can be put in one slot to give you 20 ports in one slot of 10G.
EX9200-20F-MIC, two of these can be inserted into an MPC card to provide 40 ports of gigabit one MIC provides 20 ports of GbE fiber ports.
And then there is a full length EX9200-40T-MIC.
You can just insert one of these in the MPC and you get 40 ports of GBaseT on one slot.
On all, it is a flexible product both for campus and data center with extensive protocol support.
1G, 10G, 40G, 100G is supported on these designed for campus core distribution with high scale (1M MAC addresses, 0.5M IPv4/v6 addresses and 256k ACLs).
A lot of chassis throughput and bandwidth with deep buffers on all cards providing at least 100 millisecond of buffering.
Now, in terms of where to position what product or where to deploy which product, I have a simple map here.
Basically, the EX4600 is a compact 10Gb switch.
So you could use it for any 10G distribution deployments and 40G distribution deployments.
It doesn’t support AES256.
It supports the older AES128.
And we don’t really recommend it for EVPN-VXLAN, even though it supports L2 gateway.
It gets tricky when a customer certainly does need L3 EVPN-VXLAN functionality.
For any campus fabric and EVPN-VXLAN, we really recommend customers to deploy with EX4650 or QFX5120.
All of which provide the campus fabric EVPN-VXLAN functionality.
These also provide 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G capabilities.
And there is MACsec AES256, but in just one SKU of the QFX5120.
And last but not the least, we have the EX9204 or 9200, which comes in various form factors.
And they support redundant route engine.
You get full EVPN-VXLAN L2 and L3 functionality.
And these come in various line cards that provide you natively 10G, 40G, 100G.
25G is available only with breakouts though.
You can take the 100G line card and breakout using 25G.
And these do support maximum AES256 and ideal for any modular campus fabric deployment.
So, in summary EX4600 for any non-campus fabric deployment.
EX4650, QFX51 series for any fixed config, campus fabric deployments, you can use that.
And EX9200 for any modular campus fabric deployment.
Hope you liked the presentation.
Thank you.