Enterprise: Automate

Current data centre network automation solutions are implemented as point products optimised for specific tasks — configuration, provisioning, diagnostics, management — and are not designed to work together. They have different operator interfaces and navigation schemes, lack user-based automation, and are difficult to use. As a result, network operators are faced with extensive training for disparate applications, manually intensive error-prone cycle times, and limited visibility of the organisation-wide network.

Juniper Networks’ comprehensive software and services for network automation help reduce complexity, increase operational efficiencies, and scale the infrastructure in response to business dynamics.

The Junos Space network application platform was designed to provide end-to-end visibility and control of the network to enable network resources to be orchestrated in response to business needs. Operators can significantly simplify the full network life cycle, including configuration provisioning and troubleshooting, and increase operations accuracy using user-specific workflows and Juniper best practice.

Junos Space includes a core set of collaborative applications from Juniper and third parties that help managers improve operational efficiencies, rapidly scale their infrastructure, and increase the reliability and agility of their network. Junos Space applications share common services to enable resource, security, and performance optimisation.

Junos Space’s easy-to-use Web 2.0 user interface allows data centre operators to complete their tasks quickly, easily, and accurately, and also:

• Reduce operational costs by automating manual, repetitive, and error-prone tasks.
• Improve user productivity with rapid end point connectivity and dynamic scaling of application infrastructure.
• Simplify operations for managing virtual and physical network infrastructures.
• Maximise data centre security by policy abstractions and sophisticated correlation capabilities for proactive and accurate threat detection.
• Reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) by automating event and incident management.
• Rapidly establish secure connections between remote sites with automated MPLS service configuration and activation software.

Junos Space features a core set of collaborative automation applications that share platform services and are hosted in a multi-tenant application environment where applications can be dynamically downloaded and upgraded for zero downtime service. Junos Space applications share platform services and have the same consistent user interface, enabling data centre operators to reduce application infrastructure costs and complexity, and maximise security and network resources.

The Junos Space application portfolio includes the following.

Junos Space Ethernet Design: Makes it as easy to deploy an entire enterprise campus or data centre network, including user and end-point connectivity, as it is to deploy a single switch.

• Provides Juniper best-practice configuration to enable diverse end hosts to connect to switch network.
• Enables single work flow, bulk application of Juniper best-practice configuration to broad switch port selection.
• Reduces cycle time to deploy a large enterprise network by 50%.

Junos Space Network Activate: Provides easy, fast, and accurate set-up of VPLS services and lifecycle management of MPLS services.

• Enables easy, accurate VPLS service definition, provisioning, validation, and diagnostics.
• Provides centralized, up-to-date, accurate inventory through rapid discovery of hundreds of devices.
• Automates resource management with intelligent cataloguing of MPLS resources.
• Executes service provisioning, validation, and activation.

Junos Space Route Insight: Speeds troubleshooting and increases planning accuracy with real-time IP and MPLS/VPN routing analysis, rewindable troubleshooting, and network-wide modeling.

• Network-wide IP network visualization and monitoring.
• Real-time alerting.
• Full forensic network history, record/rewind, and analysis.
• Highly accurate network modeling and simulation.

Junos Space Service Now: Enables rapid problem resolution with automated case and incident management.

Junos Space Service Insight: Delivers proactive, actionable network insight to manage risk and improve application reliability.

Junos Space Security Design: Enables rapid device and security service deployment and bulk configuration and provisioning of complex security policies.

• Enables rapid deployment of devices and security services.
• Uses Security Domains, an innovative patented technology for creating logical security topology maps for automated resource protection.
• Provides policy abstraction and intelligent policy lifecycle management for rapidly scaling security services.
• Enables centralized event correlation and log management for rapid and accurate threat detection.

Junos Space Virtual Control: Contributes to a consolidated solution for managing both virtual and physical networks from a single management console.

• Provides port profile based configuration of virtual switches, virtual ports, and server access switch ports.
• Manages orchestration of VM migrations and related polices.
• Monitors and audits configurations between physical and virtual network resources to eliminate errors that occur when networks are out of sync.
• Leverages publicly available APIs to communication with virtual switches.

Network Operating System

• Junos® OS: Integrates routing, switching, and security services to reduce complexity, achieve operational excellence, and deliver dynamic services with lower TCO.

Technical Services

• Juniper Care: A family of support services built on the service automation features of Junos Space Service Now and Junos Space Service Insight application. Juniper Care improves business application reliability by ensuring the network is performing optimally. Time-consuming and complex support-management activities are automated, improving up-time and time-to-resolution (TTR) with service automation capability. Juniper Care relies on the Junos Space platform delivered by Service Now for reactive event management, and the Junos Space Service Insight application for adaptive and proactive management. Juniper Care also delivers direct and personalized assistance including design, maintenance, and support escalation.

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