Enterprise: Simplify

Interconnecting a growing number of virtual and physical devices while trying to manage these resources can be a daunting task. Complexity and cost increase exponentially as more devices are added. Applying the principles of cloud computing with a network fabric can help enterprises overcome these obstacles.

A successful and scalable cloud-ready data centre network must do four things:

• simplify
• share
• secure
• automate

Juniper Networks helps enterprises simplify their data centre network with Virtual Chassis fabric technology, an industry-leading product portfolio, and solution modules to reduce the total cost of ownership and provide agility.

With Juniper's "3-2-1" data centre network architecture, multiple switching tiers are collapsed, leading to a new simplified design that requires fewer devices and interconnections. "Security sprawl" is consolidated into fewer highly scalable dynamic security services platforms. Advanced routing capabilities enhance application performance and agility.

All of these functions leverage a common operating system with an open network automation platform. This makes it easier to manage and administer the data centre network, accelerating application deployments and increasing efficiencies in space, power, cooling, and management.

Solution Components

Switching

• EX Series Ethernet Switches: Deliver unmatched scale and performance for L2 and L3 data centre networks. The high-density, high-performance EX8208 and EX8216 modular switches support data centre and cloud computing environments. The EX4500 line supports high-density 10Gbps top-of-rack and aggregation deployments, while the EX4200 line supports gigabit top-of-rack and access deployments. Virtual Chassis fabric technology interconnects multiple EX4200 switches to operate as a single device, reducing management overhead.

Routing

• MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers: Provide high-performance Ethernet switching and security capabilities coupled with the most advanced routing features, and can scale functionality without compromising performance. Advanced routing features include MPLS network virtualization, low-latency multicast, advanced QoS, and carrier-class reliability and security.
• M Series Multiservice Edge Routers: Combine best-in-class integrated virtualization and traffic management with unmatched reliability, stability, security, and service richness to connect the cloud-ready data centre to the WAN.

Security

• SRX Series Services Gateways: Combine routing, switching, application services, and user- and application-aware security within a modular, expandable chassis to deliver unprecedented performance and flexibility while reducing management overhead.

Junos Platform

• Junos Pulse: A dynamic, standards-based multiservice network client that drastically simplifies user experiences by delivering integrated connectivity, access, application acceleration, and security.
• Junos Space: Provides applications for network infrastructure automation including:
  • Junos Space Ethernet Design — Helps deploy an entire network just as easily as a single switch.
  • Junos Space Network Activate — Allows for full lifecycle management of MPLS services, and quick and easy set-up of VPLS services.
  • Junos Space Route Insight — Enables rapid planning, troubleshooting, and change simulation for L3 services.
  • Junos Space Service Now — Automates diagnostics to speed problem resolution.
  • Junos Space Service Insight — Delivers proactive, actionable network insight to manage risk and improve application reliability.
  • Junos Space Security Design — Enables bulk configuration and provisioning of complex security policies.
  • Junos Space Virtual Control — Allows you to monitor, manage, and control networks running within virtualized servers in the data centre, so you can control both virtual and physical networks from a single management screen.

Network Operating System

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

• 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 enterprise-wide threat management view.

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.

A top J-Partner will help you get the most from Juniper's networking and security solutions, whether for a small enterprise or the largest, global IP backbone.