Juniper announces new application acceleration switch, module

NEW DELHI: Juniper Networks has unveiled the QFX5100-AA, a new application acceleration switch, and the QFX-PFA, a new packet flow accelerator module.

Building on Juniper’s proven QFX product family, the QFX5100-AA and QFX-PFA in partnership with Maxeler Technologies’ customizable software logic will accelerate business-critical applications in latency-sensitive computing environments, a release said.

The switch and module will vastly improve the performance of applications that handle market data feeds, social media feeds, order execution routing and big data analytics, allowing financial firms to make decisions faster and take advantage of real-time market opportunities, it added.

QFX5100-AA and QFX-PFA, which will be available in Q3, 2015, will enable financial services providers to streamline their network operations while empowering their customers to make split-second analysis based on significant amounts of data.

Specific benefits will include, a holistic data center network architecture that builds on the Juniper Networks QFX5100 with a new 40G Ethernet switch that combines the Intel Xeon processor E3-1125C v2 with Broadcom switching silicon, and the QFX-PFA module based on the Altera multi-100G field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

“The possibilities of compute-integrated networking are transformative across a broad variety of financial services, including equities and commodities exchanges, market data providers, high-frequency trading, and credit processing. We see great potential in other sectors for this technology, including energy, research, education and large enterprises. With the introduction of Juniper Networks QFX5100-AA and QFX-PFA, we are delivering new computing capabilities within the data center network to ensure that our customers can make the most informed split-second investment decisions,” said Andrew Bach, Chief Architect for Financial Services Team, Juniper Networks