Automate

Current data center network automation solutions are implemented as point products optimized 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 organization-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 optimization.

Junos Space’s easy-to-use Web 2.0 user interface allows data center 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.
• Maximize data center 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: Junos Space is a comprehensive Network Management Solution that simplifies and automates management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. It is a critical component of our SDN strategy as it provides a centralized management plane for a single source of truth and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs. Junos Space consists of a network management platform for deep element management, plug-n-play management applications for reducing costs and provisioning new services quickly, and a programmable SDK for network customization. With each of these components working cohesively, Junos Space offers a unified network management and orchestration solution to help you more efficiently manage the New Network.

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 center operators to reduce application infrastructure costs and complexity, and maximize security and network resources.

The Junos Space Management Application portfolio includes the following.

Junos Space Network Director: a full lifecycle management tool for unified vision and control of the network wired and wireless infrastructure, users and services.

• Operation simplicity help you shift from maintaining to innovating
• Less human error with guided, wizard based tasks
• Fast & simple deployment with profile based approach by logical, location or device grouping
• Optimize network performance with extensive performance and correlated fault management
• Monitor & Plan Ahead with Pervasive visibility into the network
• Top interfaces with enhanced web 2.0 User Experience with adoptive content and smart navigation
• Extensive PDF, CSV, HTML reporting to view inventory, usage, capacity, alarms, top talkers.

Junos Space Services Activation Director: 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 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 Director: 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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