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The cloud data center requires network resources to be allocated, expanded, and re-allocated efficiently at scale. Juniper's uniquely architected platforms deliver the agility and scaling required by virtualizing network configurations, segmenting services into logical domains, and using industry-leading hardware designs to scale without complexity.

As service providers deliver end-to-end services, the network must react appropriately to changes in the data center. With a large pool of resources to draw on, service providers can efficiently partition those resources to meet service requirements and remain elastic while ensuring performance, security, and control.

Juniper Networks' approach to sharing the network revolves around aligning capacities, bandwidth, priorities, and availability goals with application requirements using technologies based on standards and simplified policies.

Starting with our Virtual Chassis technology, integrated into the EX4200 line of switches, service providers can deploy more VLANs at L2 with fewer devices. In each of our routing and switching lines, customers have unmatched scale and agility in processing ACLs, or "policy filters" that forward traffic according to rules for the designated types at line rate and at all packet sizes.

Juniper's security services and policies nest VLANs within logical zones for security segmentation. With our carrier-grade, scalable MPLS and VPLS technologies, VPNs can be used to extend zones, and VLANs can be stretched across data centers or pods for more flexible shared links to the cloud.

Simplified provisioning and implementation guides provided by Juniper also help to minimize risk and speed time to deployment for an agile, secure cloud data center network.

Solution Components

Switching

• EX Series Ethernet Switches: Deliver unmatched scale and performance for L2 and L3 data center networks. The high-density, high-performance EX8208 and EX8216 modular switches support data center and cloud computing environments, while Virtual Chassis technology enables up to 10 interconnected EX4200 switches to operate as a single device, reducing management overhead.

Routing

• M Series Multiservice Edge Routers and T Series Core Routers: Combine best-in-class integrated virtualization and traffic management with unmatched reliability, stability, security, and quality of service to connect the cloud data center to the WAN.
• MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers: Provide Ethernet switching capabilities coupled with carrier-class routing features to support advanced virtualization of network infrastructures and traffic management between the data center and the WAN.
• BX Series Multi-Access Gateway: Allows cloud services to be delivered to mobile PDA devices, while preparing the way for future migration to 4G technologies.

VPN Platforms

• SRX Series Services Gateways: Provide the most scalable, efficient, and agile security protections for the highly virtualized infrastructures of data centers ready for the cloud.
• SA Series SSL VPN Appliances: Deliver scalable, simplified, and secure access to data center resources from multiple remote networks and platforms.

Identity and Policy Control

• SRC Series Session and Resource Control Modules: Enable service providers to deploy new subscription models, new value-added services, and guaranteed multimedia services through dynamic allocation of network resources, resulting in both increased revenue per bit and cost savings per bit for their network.

Junos Platform

• Junos Space: Includes applications for network infrastructure automation. Today these include:
  Ethernet Activator — for easy and fast setup of secure communication channels
  Route Insight Manager — enables rapid planning, troubleshooting, and change simulation
  Service Now — automates diagnostics to speed problem resolution

Network Operating System

• Junos Software: Integrates routing, switching, and security services, and offers the power of one operating system to reduce complexity, achieve operational excellence, and deliver dynamic services with lower TCO.

Network Management

• 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 organization-wide threat management view.

Download Implementation Guides to Learn How:

• Virtual Chassis Technology Best Practices [PDF 6.66MB]
• Implementing VPLS in Data Center Networks [PDF 1.1MB]