Core & Edge Switches - Juniper

EX Switches

These cloud-grade switches are designed for the converged enterprise branch, campus, and data center, and for service providers. They address growing enterprise demands for high availability, unified communications, and virtualization.

Full comparison:  https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/ex-series/

QFX Series Switches

Our QFX Series switches secure and automate your data center networks. They build a strong underlay foundation for flexible and high-performance fabrics that improve network reliability and agility, helping to simplify the path to multicloud. Juniper switching platforms provide a high-density, high-performance foundation for your most demanding data center and cloud environments. As your business grows, your data center must scale to accommodate increased network traffic and users, without compromising scalability, manageability, and sustainability. Our data center architectures support dozens to thousands of ports, scaling to address your evolving business needs while maximizing agility and investment dollars.

Modern data centers running at scale typically use an IP fabric architecture with EVPN-VXLAN overlay.

• An IP fabric enables you to collapse traditional networking layers into a two-tier spine-and-leaf architecture optimized for large-scale environments. This highly interconnected Layer 3 network acts as an underlay to provide high resiliency and low latency across your network.

• The EVPN-VXLAN overlay sits on top of the IP fabric. It enables you to extend and interconnect your Layer 2 data center domains.

Full comparison link: https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/qfx-series/