Juniper Networks today announced the availability of the EX8216 Ethernet switch, a 16-slot platform with a switch fabric capacity of 12.4 terabits.
The EX8216 joins the eight-slot EX8208 as Juniper’s modular, chassis-based LAN switch offerings. The EX8208 began shipping in the first quarter after a delay.
The EX8216 is optimized for high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center and cloud computing environments, Juniper says. Juniper claims the switch has a per-slot capacity of 320Gbps and delivers up to 2 billion packets per second performance, features the company says will be required for 100G Ethernet in the future.
It will go up against Cisco’s Nexus 7000 and other high-end, data center-optimized switches and switching routers from Brocade, Extreme and Force10.
Even though the EX8216 is positioned by Juniper as a platform for cloud computing, the company is believed to be working on
new switching architectures as part of its Stratus cloud computing project.
Pricing for the EX8216 starts at $76,000.
Separately, Juniper confirmed that its recently introduced EX2500 top-of-rack 10G Ethernet data center switch is a licensed product that does not run its JUNOS software -- a “chink” in the company’s end-to-end JUNOS consistency story, a company official acknowledges. He would not disclose the manufacturer of the switch but says Juniper chose to license the product for time-to-market purposes to fill a gap in its switching portfolio.
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Juiniper EX2500 SwitchBy Anonymous on May 12, 2009, 2:55 pmThe Juniper EX2500 is OEMed from Blade Network Technologies (BNT).
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just claim !By Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 8:31 amit is not unusual that juniper claim about a product that only they benchmark it in their lab (not sure they have any lab in-house!!).who test this new switch ?...
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RE: just claim!By megapril on May 14, 2009, 5:44 pmJuniper has in house labs globally. And by the way "Anon", you should probably improve your grammar and puntuation before talking out of your ass...
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megapril improve your spelling !!! Unfortunately for Juniper tBy Anonymous on May 15, 2009, 2:14 pmmegapril improve your spelling !!! Unfortunately for Juniper theyhave brought a switch to market for the data centre core that is already behind Cisco, Force10,...
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