Mobile Core Networks
Introduction
A converged backbone provides a lower cost structure for legacy services while establishing a scalable core for new high speed offerings. As mobile carriers migrate to shared infrastructure, an IP/MPLS mobile packet backbone network enables assured service delivery for a diverse mix of offerings.
For years, Juniper Networks has been helping service providers evolve to a secure, converged IP infrastructure by providing industry-leading routing and security equipment, and by working closely with strategic partners to integrate our products into end-to-end solutions. These solutions are designed to address all of the key challenges faced by mobile operators in their migration from circuit-switched technologies--from the introduction of mobile softswitching through the deployment of IP transport and the evolution to IMS-FMC networks based on 3GPP and ETSI/TISPAN architectures.
Juniper Networks' packet core network solutions for mobile carriers use MPLS as a method of controlling traffic flows and integrating the transport of ATM and Frame Relay traffic into a multi-service mobile packet backbone while maintaining the quality associated with ATM and Frame Relay connectivity.
Description
Juniper Networks core router solutions form high capacity multiservice IP/MPLS backbones for converged provider networks around the world. With over 100 T-series customers worldwide and over 1,000 units deployed, Juniper Networks is a leader in next generation core routing deployments.
Our T-series routers deliver the unique combination of advanced routing features, best-in-class IP/MPLS capabilities, as well as unmatched reliability and scale. The T-series leverages JUNOS, the industry's only operating system that combines proven reliability with a development cycle that ensures continuous, non-disruptive feature and functionality enhancements.
Multi-service Core
Juniper Networks T-series routers provide a rich set of features supporting differentiated service classes for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS traffic. Keeping flows separate enables support of diverse applications with different performance requirements and simplifies QoS to enable traffic prioritization.
Juniper Networks is active in IETF, the IPsphere Forum, and other standards groups. Our Provider Infranets offer a blueprint for helping service providers execute on the IPsphere Forum framework for integrating intelligence into service offerings and extending it across boundaries.
T-series routers enable the entire gamut of services in the mobile core, including voice, video, data, gaming, and the support of SLA-guaranteed service offerings for enterprises. The variety of MPLS core solutions available on Juniper routers is second to none. For instance, in a triple play network our support of Point-to-MultiPoint Label Switched Paths (P2MP LSPs) presents an ideal solution for delivering video. P2MP LSPs provide video traffic with bandwidth reservation, traffic engineering, and fast failover mechanisms not found in multicast protocols such as PIM or IGMP.
High Availability Architecture
The rigorous uptime requirements of converged carrier networks align with the diverse transport networks that precede them. Juniper Networks core IP solutions provide robust, scalable routing protocol implementations designed to converge quickly. MPLS provides failover mechanisms to redirect traffic within 50 ms for applications such as broadcast video. Key reliability features of the Juniper Networks platforms include:
- Nonstop Forwarding (NSF)
- Graceful Restart (GR)
- In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
- Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD)
- Traffic Engineering (TE) With Fast Reroute (FRR)
Scalability
JUNOS service deployments are proven to scale - across core, edge and access - with one operating system. To meet rising traffic demands, the TX matrix provides an evolutionary upgrade path to multi-terabit speeds. The Juniper Networks T640 and the TX Matrix protect customer investments with minimal or no disruption to core services during backbone upgrades. Other core routing vendors continue to offer upgrade paths with far higher CAPEX and production facility upgrades, while Juniper Networks provides clear investment protection that avoids the pain of forklift economics.
Customer Press
- Juniper Networks Routing Platforms Form Core of China's Next-Generation Internet
- BT Media and Broadcast Deploys Juniper Networks Routing Platforms for Europe's First Point-to-Multipoint IP/MPLS Broadcast Network
- Juniper Networks Awarded Largest Share of China Telecom's Next-Generation Network
Literature
White Papers
- Best Practices for Video Transit on an MPLS Backbone
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The Juniper Networks vision for the evolution of networks is an open, next-generation network core that will securely and reliably support all communications applications, from any origin to any destination, at any time. This white paper explains this vision and shows how it is supported by Juniper's use of point-to-multipoint label switched paths, an innovative new technology that enables service providers to efficiently carry broadcast video (IPTV) traffic across an IP backbone. - Building Next-Generation Mobile Packet Core Networks: Enabling Mobile Operators to Build Highly Efficient Converged IP/MPLS Core Networks940 KB
This white paper outlines current trends (GSM/UMTS, CDMA, and WiMAX) and challenges facing mobile operators today, including the evolution of 2G/3G mobile architectures to packet-based infrastructures. This paper also discusses how an IP/MPLS infrastructure is an ideal way for mobile operators to reduce OPEX while paving the way for new revenue-generating services such as those based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and how Juniper Networks addresses the fundamental requirements for mobile core networks. - Architectural Issues in Carrier Class Operating Systems636 KB
This whitepaper can be used alone as an overview of JUNOS architecture or as a response to Cisco's claims about IOS-XR. - Efficient Scaling for Multiservice Networks409 KB
This paper outlines the scaling, performance, and filtering advantages of the packet forwarding engine in high end Juniper routers. - Integrating Ethernet in Carrier-Class Networks: Products and Technologies for Carrier-Class Ethernet1 MB
White paper detailing equipment and feature requirements for carrier-class Ethernet. Underlying technologies are I-chip PFE and Ethernet Services Engine. First applicable product in the M120 MSE platform. There are more platforms to come using these underlying technologies. - Securing Provider Backbone Networks: Packet Filters, Traffic Shaping and Related Best Practices558 KB
White paper detailing equipment and feature requirements, as well as best practices, for infrastructure security in the service provider environment. - Building IMS-Capable Core Networks1 MB
White paper detailing the value of building a secure, virtualized converged core network based on IP/MPLS as the ideal transport (packet processing) layer for an IMS network. - BGP Route Reflection in Layer 3 VPN Networks1.4 MB
White paper discussing route reflection design options for L3VPNs.
Video
- Intelligent Logical Router Service480 KB
Logical routers support a variety of new revenue generating services such as Application Specific Routing (ASR), wholesale router services, and proof of concept service deployments. - Multiservice Networking with the M-series 601 KB
This paper provides a basic primer, including configuration snippets, on how to run multiple services such as Layer 3 VPNs, Layer 2 VPNs, VPLS, VPN-aware NAT and stateful firewall as well as other services on a single M-series platform.
MPLS
- Network Evolution without Compromise 288 KB
This paper provides a summary edge platform requirements to consolidate all services onto a single IP/MPLS infrastructure. - Delivering Predictable IP Communications102 KB
The convergence of real-time applications onto traditional IP networks creates new network requirements.
Brochures
- Juniper Networks Mobile Packet Core Solution718 KB
This solution brochure describes the Juniper Networks IP/MPLS solutions that enable intelligent, secure and open IP infrastructures for highly reliable mobile packet core networks.
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