Junosphere is a first-of-its-kind virtual environment from Juniper Networks that can reduce the costs of network planning and modeling by as much as 90%. Junosphere services give users access to a virtual environment where they can create and run elements and networks running the Junos operating system. These networks can be used for training, network modeling, planning for new services or examining "what-if" scenarios for the installed network.

Because the networks created in the Junosphere environment run the same Junos operating system that powers Juniper routers, switches and security platforms, Junosphere provides unparalleled realism and accuracy. Networks in this virtual environment can be easily and quickly scaled up or down, and are capable of scaling to hundreds or thousands of nodes — enabling a level of scale and accuracy not possible with alternative network simulation approaches.

Junosphere reduces operational costs and limits risk by providing a virtual networking lab where flawless network implementations can be modeled and designed.

Junosphere Services

Junosphere is offered as a cloud-hosted service available with flexible, pay-as-you-go based purchasing options, or as a simple Annual Plan for more frequent Junosphere users.  The on-demand Junosphere services are offered a-la-carte as Junosphere Lab, Junosphere Classroom and Junosphere Developer, for the respective user communities of network operators, the educational community and development partners.

The Junosphere Annual Pass facilitates budget planning by providing always-on Junosphere capacity for an entire year. With the Annual Plan, administrators have fine-grained control of capacity pools assigned to diverse teams and projects, with the ability to assign both maximum and minimum quantities to different user groups and projects.

Please see the ordering tab for more detail.

Junosphere Components

VJX Series

Junosphere offers you access to virtual machines running the same Junos operating system deployed on Juniper's physical routing devices. The first of these virtual machines are the VJX Series, a new family of Junos OS-based virtual routers that run only within the Junosphere environment, and form the foundation of the Junosphere service. The VJX Series delivers the software functionality of Juniper routers including command-line interfaces (CLIs), control plane behavior, protocol operation, and most forwarding functions.

Junosphere Connector

Junosphere Connector is an optional capability that allows the virtual networking resources of Junosphere to interoperate directly with physical network elements. Junosphere Connector allows Junosphere to provide a complimentary and efficient virtual extension of an existing physical lab, allowing customers to create large scale networks that enable interoperability, scalability and convergence testing at realistic scale. The ability to connect multiple physical and virtual topologies is a powerful tool for modeling carrier class networks and assessing the impact of topology changes, upgrade and downgrade procedures, or new network and service build outs.

Junos Space

Junos Space network automation applications can be used within the Junosphere environment to provision, monitor, and configure the VJX Series within the virtual network. By providing trainees with access to Junos Space, Junosphere exposes them to next generation network orchestration tools.

Junosphere Lab reduces the risks of network changes and lets you bring new services to market faster than ever before.

In addition to Juniper products, Junosphere also provides a comprehensive ecosystem of partner applications to facilitate a highly realistic lab experience. The following applications are available as part of Junosphere at no additional cost.

How to Order

Junosphere can be ordered through your authorized Juniper representative, or you can purchase online using a credit card. To purchase with a credit card, please visit the order processing site.

If you will be purchasing Junosphere through a Juniper representative or authorized reseller, please refer to the part numbers below.

What to Order

Junosphere offers a range of flexible purchase options, ranging from always available Annual Plans to Regular Capacity which can be purchased as needed. Both the Annual Plans and the Regular Capacity are based on the concept of a virtual machine unit (VM unit). A single VM unit allows you to run the basic images available within Junosphere—including the VJX Series, Junos Space, and all partner images—for a period of 24 hours. More advanced images may require using more than one VM unit.

Annual Plans have a specific number of VM Units available around the clock--available in 10, 50 and 100 Unit increments--and are ideal for large organizations and heavy Junosphere users. The Annual Plan capacity can be flexibly distributed among different groups.

Regular Capacity provides a more flexible option where once purchased, VM units will be added to your Junosphere account "Bank", and can be used at your discretion.

Purchased in this manner, VM units are consumed only when you launch and run an active network topology. For example, launching a five node network, and allowing it to run for two days (48 hours) would consume 10 VM units. Designing networks using the Topology Wizard does not consume any VM units, and can be done independently of running an active topology.