The QF Director is an x86 server with gigabit Ethernet ports connecting to all of the nodes in the data center. The QF Interconnect Chassis supports 128 QSFP ports at wire speed. The QFX3500 has 48 10G Etherenet QSFP+ ports as well as 2G, 4G and 8G Fibre Channel interfaces and four QSFP 40G Ethernet uplinks.

Andrew Bach, senior vice president of technology for the New York Stock Exchange says he is in the middle of two months of testing the new Juniper gear and that so far the results are promising. He says they seem to meet Juniper’s performance claims and that if they live up to the company’s claims, will enable the exchange to avoid its drastically accelerating traffic from overwhelming its data centers.

in Network World's Data Center section.