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The cloud-ready data center requires resources to be allocated, expanded, and re-allocated efficiently at scale. Juniper's uniquely architected platforms deliver the agility and scaling required by virtualizing network configurations, segmenting services into logical domains, and using industry-leading hardware designs to scale without complexity. With a large pool of resources to draw on, customers can efficiently partition those resources to meet service requirements and remain elastic while ensuring performance, security, and controls.

Juniper Networks' approach to sharing the network revolves around aligning capacities, bandwidth, priorities, and availability goals with application requirements using technologies based on standards and simplified policies.

Starting with our Virtual Chassis technology, integrated into the EX4200 line of switches, public sector organizations can deploy more VLANs at L2 with fewer devices. In each of our routing and switching lines, customers have unmatched scale and agility in processing ACLs, or "policy filters" that forward traffic according to rules for the designated types at line rate and at all packet sizes.

Juniper's security services and policies nest VLANs within logical zones for security segmentation. With our carrier grade, scalable MPLS and VPLS technologies, VPNs can be used to extend zones, and VLANs can be stretched across data centers or pods for more flexible shared links to the cloud.

Simplified provisioning and implementation guides provided by Juniper also help to minimize risk and speed time to deployment for an agile, secure cloud-ready data center network.

Solution Components

Switching

• EX Series Ethernet Switches: Using our Virtual Chassis technology, up to 10 EX4200 Ethernet switches can be interconnected to create a single logical device with scalable VLAN support, reducing the total number of devices to manage in a virtualized environment.

Routing

• M Series Multiservice Edge Routers Combine best-in-class IP/MPLS capabilities with unmatched reliability, stability, security, and service richness.
• MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers: Provides Ethernet switching and best-in-class VPLS/MPLS capabilities with carrier-class routing features.

VPN Platforms

• SRX Series Services Gateways: Provide the most scalable, efficient, and agile security protections for the highly virtualized infrastructures of data centers ready for the cloud.
• SA Series SSL VPN Appliances: Deliver scalable, simplified, and secure remote access to data center resources from multiple remote networks and platforms.

Junos Platform

• Junos Space: Includes applications for network infrastructure automation. Today these include:
  Ethernet Activator — for easy and fast setup of secure communication channels
  Route Insight Manager — enables rapid planning, troubleshooting, and change simulation
  Service Now — automates diagnostics to speed problem resolution

Network Operating System

• Junos Software: Integrates routing, switching, and security services, and offers the power of one operating system to reduce complexity, achieve operational excellence, and deliver dynamic services with lower TCO.

Network Management

• Network and Security Manager (NSM): Provides a single pane of management for the entire network infrastructure, including routing, switching, and security devices.
• STRM Series Security Threat Response Managers: Collect events and alerts from different Juniper and third-party products and aggregate them in order to provide an organization-wide threat management view.

• Virtual Chassis Technology Best Practices [PDF 6.66 MB]
• Implementing VPLS in Data Center Networks [PDF 1.10 MB]
• Implementing L2 at the Data Center Access Layer on Juniper Networks Infrastructure [PDF 620 KB]

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