Figure 4: QFX10000 Roung and Control Board (QFX10000-RE)
Line Cards
The QFX10008 features eight horizontal line card slots and supports line rate for each line card. The line
cards combine a Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) and Ethernet interfaces enclosed in a single assembly.
The QFX10008 line-card architecture is based on number of idencal, independent PFE slices each with
500 Gbps full-duplex throughput. Line cards are FRUs that can be installed in the line-card slots labeled
0 through 7 (top to boom) on the front of the switch chassis. All line cards are hot-removable and hot-
insertable.
The QFX10008 supports the following line cards:
• QFX10000-36Q–provides 36 ports of 40-gigabit QSFP+. Twelve ports are designed to be 100-
Gigabit capable using QSFP28. Each of the 40-Gigabit QSFP+ can be congured as either a nave
40-Gigabit port or four 10-Gigabit ports using a breakout cable. With breakout cables, the line card
supports a maximum of 144 logical 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
• QFX10000-30C–provides 30 ports of either 100-gigabit or 40-gigabit QSFP28. The ports autodetect
the type of transceiver installed and set the conguraon to the appropriate speed. Each of the 40-
gigabit ports can be congured as either a nave 40-gigabit port or four 10-gigabit ports using a
breakout cable. With breakout cables, the line card supports a maximum of 96 logical 10-Gigabit
Ethernet ports.
• QFX10000-30C-M–provides 30 ports of either 100-gigabit or 40-gigabit QSFP28 that support
MACsec security features.
• QFX10000-60S-6Q–provides 60 SFP+ ports that can be congured for either 1-gigabit or 10-gigabit
speeds. The card also provides six exible conguraon ports for 100-gigabit and 40-gigabit speeds.
Of the six exible conguraon ports, two ports have QSFP28 sockets that support either 100-
gigabit or 40-gigabit speeds. The remaining four ports have QSFP+ sockets that can be congured as
either a nave 40-gigabit port or four 10-gigabit ports using a breakout cable. With breakout cables,
the line card supports a maximum of 84 logical 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
• QFX10K-12C-DWDM-provides 6 coherent dense wavelength-division mulplexing (DWDM) ports
with built-in opcs. The card supports MACsec security features and provides a exible rate
modulaon at 100 Gbps, 150 Gbps, and 200 Gbps speeds.
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