Juniper QFX3500, Hardware Documentation

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CHAPTER 4
QFX3600 Overview
IN THIS CHAPTER
QFX3600 Device Overview | 45
Front Panel of a QFX3600 Device | 48
QFX3600 Device Overview
IN THIS SECTION
Software | 46
Hardware | 46
The Juniper Networks QFX3600 device is a high-speed, multipurpose switch especially designed for
next-generation data centers. The QFX3600 device can be configured as:
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A standalone switch
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A Node device in a QFX3000-M or QFX3000-G QFabric system
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An Interconnect device in a QFX3000-M QFabric system
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A member in a QFX Virtual Chassis
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A leaf node in a QFX5100 Virtual Chassis Fabric (VCF)
Sixteen 40-Gbps ports in the device use quad small form-factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceivers. The
small form-factor and front facing ports in the switch make it suitable for deployment in high-density
server racks and container-based data center deployments.
In a QFX3000-G QFabric system, the QFX3600 device can operate as a Node device through the 40-Gbps
uplinks ports to a Juniper Networks QFX3008-I Interconnect device. On a QFX3000-M QFabric device,
the QFX3600 can be configured to operate as either a Node device or as a QFX3600-I Interconnect device.
When configured as a Node device in a QFX3000-M QFabric system, , the QFX3600 device can connect
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