I think Brocade released nearly the same technology a couple of months ago in their VDX product. Cisco can't be far behind. Although, their solution will most likely be proprietary. As far as the technology I think spanning-tree and the current way of doing ethernet has not been ideal for some time.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Stefan Fouant < sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote: > It's more than just a competitive offering to compete with the likes of the > Nexus switches from Cisco, and its also quite a bit different from Cisco's > FabricPath or other similar TRILL offerings. With FabricPath and TRILL we > solve the problem of wasted revenue ports associated with complex 3-Tier > architectures and blocked Spanning Tree ports, but you still have a > forwarding table lookup taking place on each node along the path. With > QFabric we have a set of devices which combine to form a singular unified > fabric, all sharing a single control plane and managed via a single pane of > glass, but more importantly achieving reduced latency as a result of a > single forwarding table lookup taking place on the ingress node. With such a > configuration we can achieve end-to-end Data Center latency on the order of > 5 microseconds. > > There is a lot more to it which is obviously covered in the whitepapers, > but this is truly something which is going to revolutionize data centers as > we know it for some time to come. > > Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2 > GPG Key ID: 0xB4C956EC > > Sent from my HTC EVO. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Chris Evans" <chrisccnpsp...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 7:28 pm > Subject: [j-nsp] Qfabric > To: "Keegan Holley" <keegan.hol...@sungard.com> > Cc: "juniper-nsp" <juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net> > > > Its junipers answer to nexus 5k 2k soltuion with larger scalability > essentially. > It has a big fabric interconnect at the core and some routing engines that > control edge switches acting like remote line cards. > > On Feb 23, 2011 7:23 PM, "Keegan Holley" <keegan.hol...@sungard.com> > wrote: > > Does anyone know what Qfabric is yet? After the video where Pradeep > Sindhu > > spends 1:45 talking about how they are going to change the world and 0:45 > > talking about the technology I gave up trying to cut through the > marketing > > buffer. It sounds like their implementation or answer to trill with some > of > > the virtual chassis stuff you see from the nexus thrown in. Anyone else > get > > more than that? > > _______________________________________________ > > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp