Data Center Infrastructure

The Problem

The traditional data center has become overly complex, costly, and inefficient. Data center network architectures require excessive switching tiers to work around low performance and low-density platform characteristics. Growth in the number of users and applications is almost always accompanied by an increase in the number of "silos" of more devices — for both connectivity and security. The additional capital expenses, rack space, power consumption, and management overhead contribute to the overall complexity of maintaining data center operations.

The Solution

Juniper Networks Data Center Infrastructure Solutions reduce the total cost of network ownership with architectural innovations delivered via a high-performance product portfolio. Multiple switching tiers are collapsed, leading to a new simplified network design requiring fewer devices and interconnections. Security services are simplified by consolidating the "security sprawl" of traditional designs into fewer high-capacity and high-performance platforms. Advanced routing capabilities enhance application performance, security, and availability. Best of all, it all runs over a common operating system with a single management system, accelerating application deployments and improving efficiencies in space, power, cooling, and management.

Core Solution Components

Application Acceleration

• WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms: Available as part of the role-based dynamically downloadable client that also enables the SA Series SSL VPN Appliances for remote access and the Unified Access Control solution for network access control.

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)

• IDP Series Intrusion Detection and Prevention Appliances: Offer up to 60 Gbps throughput, and available as standalone devices or as integrated functionality in select firewalls, including the ISG Series and the full range of SRX Series gateways.

Network Access Control

• Unified Access Control: Centralized policy management servers that deliver superior scalability, performance, and cryptographic operations for large, multinational organizations and government agencies. Access policies are enforced via any standards-based 802.1X switch or access point, as well as by any Juniper Networks firewall platform.

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 deliver an enterprise-wide threat management view.

Network Operating System

• Junos OS: One system designed to completely rethink the way the network works. Junos integrates routing, switching, and security to reduce the time and effort involved in planning, deploying, and operating network infrastructure.

Routing

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

Security

• ISG Series Integrated Security Gateways: Provide linear performance for all packet sizes at multi-gigabit speeds. Purpose-built, security solutions that are ideally suited for securing enterprise, carrier, and data center environments.
• NetScreen Series Security Systems: Purpose-built, firewall/VPN security systems designed to offer scalability and flexibility to large enterprise, carrier, and data center networks.
• SRX Series Services Gateway: Combines routing, switching, application services, and security (firewall, VPN, IPS) within a single device.

Services

• J-Care Technical Services: Ensure rapid response from Juniper engineers and offer hardware replacement options so you can choose the timing and resources right for your network.

SSL VPN/Remote Access

• SA Series: SSL VPN appliances: Feature best-in-class performance, scalability, and redundancy for organizations requiring high-volume secure access and authorization.

Switching

• EX Series Ethernet Switches: Up to 10 EX4200 switches can be interconnected to create a single Virtual Chassis configuration that operates as a single device, thus reducing the total number of devices to manage.

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