Universal WAN

The Challenge

Traditional enterprise network models focused primarily on a central headquarters, to the detriment of service to satellite branches. That approach is dated because today's enterprise footprint is distributed far beyond the corporate headquarters to globally distributed locations that encompass many branch locations, numerous remote offices, and remote workers in home offices and mobile workers using smartphones.

In addition, enterprises are more "fluid" than ever. An employee may be working at the main campus one day, from a remote location the next, and in a coffee shop on the third. This means all work centers, and all users, are now business-critical, requiring require consistent, secure, high-performance networks.

Along with this shift away from a center, essential online business applications have increased in number as well in their level of business criticality. In this highly competitive and challenging market, network systems must not limit the ability of the enterprise to conduct business or capitalize on opportunities. As a result, forward-thinking enterprises are searching for a network system that transcends boundaries and provides consistent business services to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

The Solution

Juniper's Universal WAN solution connects all enterprise locations from the largest data centers to the smallest branch locations, and even includes the most remote and mobile users, in a fully scalable and flexible model.

With enterprise networking at a crossroads due to globalization, consolidation and mobility, Juniper is introducing the Universal WAN solution by blending best-in-class performance and scale with industry leading security and virtualization, providing a WAN that can easily scale with customers' changing and demanding requirements.

Combined with the most flexible solutions on the market, scalable platforms (ranging from 0.7 Gbps to 80 Gbps), broad range of interfaces from Ethernet (at speeds from 1G to 10G) to non-Ethernet interfaces (T1 - OC48), remote provisioning, and unique customer support with Juniper Service Now, the Universal WAN provides New Network flexibility and performance along with peace of mind for the Enterprise CIO.

In a complete WAN solution encompassing WAN Core, Internet Edge, WAN Aggregation and Data Center Interconnect, Juniper is also adding enhancements to the SRX branch routers that allow the creation of a "branch in 10 minutes" and automated technical support through Service Now.

Core Solution Components

Security

• SRX Series Services Gateway: Combines routing, switching, application services, and security within a single device.

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.

Additional Solution Components

Routing

• MX Series Ethernet Services Routers: Provide Ethernet switching capabilities coupled with the carrier-class routing features customers expect from Juniper.

Application Acceleration

• WX/WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms: Deliver fast and consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure uncompromised access to mission-critical applications and services.

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® 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.

Security

• SA Series SSL VPN Appliances: Feature best-in-class performance, scalability, and redundancy for organizations requiring high-volume secure access and authorization.
• SRX Series Services Gateway: Combines routing, switching, application services, and security within a single device.
• Unified Access Control (UAC): The IC4500 and IC6500 Unified Access Control Appliances are next-generation hardened, centralized policy management servers that deliver superior scalability, performance, and cryptographic operations for large, multinational organizations and government agencies.

Services

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