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Simon Cooper
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Next-Gen Switching Architecture – Campus & DC
March 2016
Centralized configuration,
provisioning, management,
and policy
Simple Smart Flexible
Junos Fusion Enterprise Tomorrow’s enterprise:
Simple, Smart,
Flexible
Simple: one logical device to
Junos Fusion manage, plug-n-play, zero touch
Enterprise
Smart: open APIs, highly resilient,
intelligent software upgrades
Distribution Layer:
• L2 demarcation between L2 & L3
• Aggregation point for Access
Layer
Access Layer:
• PoE, 10/100/1000Mbps
• Stacks/VC for pockets of single
management
Core Layer
WAN
Core Layer:
• Becomes your aggregation layer
or AD for the whole network
• It also becomes your central
point of management of the
whole network
• Every device attached to
aggregation layer becomes a line
card or satellite device
• Licensing is centralised to the
two AD’s but SD’s inherit the
AD’s license capabilities
Distribution Layer
WAN
Distribution Layer:
• Can become a AD for the
building it is located in or a SD of
the core
• If a AD, then licensing is placed
here for all SD attached
• Software images are stored in
the AD to distribute to SD’s
• Local or centralised switching or
routing
• Or collapse the distribution layer
in to the core
Access Layer
WAN
Access Layer:
• Smaller Linux image
• Multiple images per a switch
• Different code versions
supported
• Local or central switching
• License inherited from AD
• Support individual or stack
switches
Fusion Campus –
Option 1
WAN