The QFX5120 Switch delivers rich, low latency Layer 2/Layer 3 features and advanced EVPNVXLAN capabilities, making it an ideal data center top-of-rack and aggregation switch for campus enterprise deployments.
Featuring L3 gateway capabilities for routing between virtualized and bare-metal servers, the QFX5120 is designed for extremely agile data centers that require support for overlay/underlay network architectures. Native 25GbE with 100GbE uplink ports on the QFX5120-48Y and QFX5120- 48YM, 10GbE/1GbE copper with 100GbE uplink ports on the QFX5120-48T, and 32 100GbE ports on the QFX5120- 32C make the QFX5120 family ideal for spine-and-leaf network deployments.
Product Description
The Juniper Networks® QFX5120 Switch delivers high scale, high availability, and high performance for data center and campus deployments. The QFX5120 switch is a versatile routing and switching platform addressing higher server access speed and campus distribution use cases while offering high-density 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE and 100GbE uplinks for collapsed spine data center or campus core deployments.
Product Options
The QFX5120 Switch includes four compact 1 U platforms-the QFX5120-48Y, the QFX5120-48YM, the QFX5120-48T, and the QFX5120-32C-that provide wire-speed packet performance, very low latency, and a rich set of Junos® operating system features.
QFX5120-48Y
The QFX5120-48Y is a 25GbE/100GbE data center leaf and campus distribution switch featuring:
Using breakout cables, each of the eight 100GbE QSFP28 ports can be broken into four 25GbE SFP28 ports, while each 40GbE quad small form-factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver ports can be broken into four 10GbE small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+) transceiver ports, increasing the total number of supported 25GbE and 10GbE ports per switch to 80.
QFX5120-48YM
The QFX5120-48YM is a 10GbE/25GbE/100GbE data center leaf and campus distribution switch featuring:
When using breakout cables, two of the 100GbE QSFP28 ports (ports 50 and 52) can be broken into four 25GbE SFP28 or four 10GbE SFP+ ports, increasing the maximum number of 10GbE/25GbE ports supported to 56. When using breakouts, the total number of all ports on the switch, including 6x100GbE ports and 56x10/25GbE, is 62.
QFX5120-48T
The QFX5120-48T is a 10GbE/100GbE data center leaf and campus distribution switch featuring: