Gi Network Services
Juniper's Gi network services enable service providers to respond to rapidly increasing mobile data traffic with networks that have greater scalability and resiliency, with lower cost, better manageability and increased service velocity.
The rapid acceleration in mobile data traffic is requiring Gi networks to have greater scalability and resiliency, with lower cost, better manageability and increased service velocity. In addition to the traditional services such as carrier- grade NAT and DNS, new services like mobile video optimization must be integrated into these networks. Juniper Networks Service Delivery Gateway has been designed specifically to support the services and scale inherent in Gi networking.
The Service Delivery Gateway (SDG) runs on the industry-leading Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers running Juniper Networks Junos operating system. The SDG can consolidate a host of different Gi network services and perform them on a single pass through the system. By hosting the SDG on the MX Series routers, many Gi services can be hardware accelerated.
This is especially valuable in a mobile world where traffic is growing 100 percent year over year. Services enabled by the SDG include carrier-grade NAT, stateful firewall, SLB, routing and switching, VPNs, video optimization and more. The SDG can sit on the Gi interface of a legacy GGSN and offload services. SDG services can also run in the MobileNext Broadband Gateway to give the operator greater flexibility.
Video traffic represents approximately 40 percent of today’s mobile data traffic and that number is expected to grow to 65 percent by 2014, putting a tremendous strain on mobile networks. Mobile operators are looking for the most cost-effective way to handle all this traffic. Video optimization solutions running on Gi networks have proven to be a very compelling solution. Juniper Networks Mobile Video Optimization solution leverages the SDG, Juniper Networks Media Flow and optimization technology from Juniper’s partner Openwave.
