Learn how mobile-edge computing (MEC) moves compute and storage resources into the 4G radio access network (RAN) to improve the delivery of content and applications to end users.

Mobile Edge Computing Use Cases & Deployment Options

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MEC aims to place compute and storage resources in the 4G RAN to improve the delivery of content and applications to end users. The technology enables operators to better adapt traffic to the prevailing radio conditions, optimize service quality, and improve network efficiency. This white paper discusses the benefits of edge computing in mobile networks and investigates the use cases that are deployable in the nearer term. It provides an overview of the MEC architecture and deployment options, and evaluates the longer-term role of MEC in evolved 4G and 5G contexts.

 

Learn how software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) can contribute to greater distribution of threat detection and security enforcement throughout the mobile network.

Threat Detection & Security Policy Enforcement: A New Inflection Point in Mobile Security

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The latest inflection point in mobile network security consists of large-scale centralization of security policy enabled through more open interfaces driven by SDN. It also consists of greater distribution of threat detection and security enforcement throughout the mobile network enabled by both SDN and NFV. This white paper addresses some of the key aspects of this inflection point in mobile security. It describes general changes in the threat landscape, common principles being applied in evolving all ICT infrastructure, and how these apply in the specific context of the mobile network. It makes the case for centralizing security policy while also distributing threat detection and security policy enforcement throughout the mobile infrastructure. It describes the evolution toward that architecture now, while emphasizing the added impetus that the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G will also bring to executing on these requirements. Finally, it depicts the role of SDN and NFV as enabling technologies in this evolution of the mobile security architecture.

 

Learn how IPsec can be used to secure exposures in your LTE network.

The Security Vulnerabilities of LTE: Risks for Operators

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LTE brings powerful cost-saving and revenue-generating features for operators, as well as work-enhancing and life- enhancing capabilities to end users. However, there is a significant new security vulnerability in the LTE network that never existed with 3G networks. Whereas 3G traffic is encrypted at the end-user device and terminated deep in the network, LTE's encryption terminates at the base station, or eNodeB. The fix that the Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) prescribed (that is, the use of IPsec from the eNodeB back into the network) has not been deployed in many of the early LTE launches, but is starting to be introduced now. This introduction has largely been driven by the recognition that allowing cleartext to transit freely across the network exposes subscribers to theft of private information or network outages caused by hackers. This paper identifies security exposures in LTE networks, considers the driving forces behind those that have deployed IPsec and those that have not, and provides an outlook for IPsec adoption over the next few years.

 

Learn how the service edge can help operators add value to their LTE networks with software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Gi and NFV: Low-Friction Service Selection and Innovation

16 Pages1.10 MB9/1/14

As operators continue to invest in LTE rollouts, they still need to find ways to monetize the previous access-based business models. NFV is a new architectural approach to building and deploying services in the network that can significantly improve agility, flexibility, and scalability. Deploying NFV at the service edge, coupled with a powerful routing platform and packet inspection, allows telecoms operators to create an environment that will foster service innovation. This white paper examines how the service edge can help operators add value to their LTE networks with SDN and NFV.

 

Learn how Juniper Networks and Saguna enable exponential growth in mobile traffic and support the explosion of connected devices supported through their pre-integrated mobile-edge computing (MEC) platform.

Enabling Services in the RAN

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Two interconnected trends will shape the mobile industry over the next decade: (1) the exponential growth in mobile traffic and (2) the explosion of connected devices—the Internet of Things (IoT). To support these trends in today’s 4G networks and next-generation 5G networks, mobile infrastructures will need to scale effectively and deliver higher volumes of mobile data, especially video. They will also need to provide fast response times to a multitude of mobile devices and tactile Internet applications. Juniper Networks and Saguna have joined forces to bring to market a complete, pre-integrated MEC platform. The combined solution delivers MEC functionality with the underlying system elements required for operation within the demanding radio access network (RAN) environment.

 

Learn how Juniper Networks is laying the foundation for a next-generation secure distributed telco cloud.

Mobile Challenges, Trends and Cloud Architecture Overview

12 Pages1.24 MB2/17/17

This presentation outlines the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture, an end-to-end offering for your next-generation secure distributed telco cloud from the industry’s most trusted vendor. Key focus areas include:

• • Automated control and orchestration
• • Security everywhere
• • Disaggregation and virtualization
• • Distributed data centers
• • Integrated packet, optical, and timing solutions

 

Learn about integrated solutions from the technology innovator in packet networking and a market leader in optical data center interconnect (DCI).

Integrated Packet, Optical & Timing Solutions

17 Pages3.10 MB2/17/17

This solution brief showcases integrated solutions from the technology innovator in packet networking and a market leader in optical DCI. Topics include:

• • Industry leader: The leader in optical DCI and router performance, throughput, scale, slot density, and power efficiency
• • Multilayer efficiency: Ability to coordinate, optimize, and reduce complexity across Layers 0-3, thereby reducing TCO
• • Flexible solutions: Small cell and hardened cell site router options
• • Unique integrated timing: The only vendor today that meets strict timing requirements (phase and frequency) of LTE Advanced (LTE-A) and 5G
• • Monetization: Adding software to routers to personalize Gi-LAN subscriber services and enable new revenue

 

Learn about the broad portfolio of data center devices from Juniper Networks, from micro data centers at the edge to large-scale data centers in the core.

Distributed Data Centers

21 Pages3.29 MB2/17/17

This solution brief illustrates how extensively Juniper Networks supports data center architectures, from micro data centers at the edge to large-scale data centers. Benefits include:

• • Rich features and performance: Feature parity between Juniper Networks’ routers and data center switches
• • Low-latency services: Deploy virtualized network functions (VNFs) at network edge micro data centers to address self-driving cars, industrial control systems, and remote healthcare
• • Flexible solution: Most modular family of top-of-rack (ToR) and end-of-row (EoR) data center switches ever built
• • Investment protection: The same switch supports multiple data center fabric architectures, which can change or grow
• • Integrated solution: Network and operations integration with other cloud platforms

 

Understand how Juniper Networks is pioneering software and hardware disaggregation, using an open technology framework to ensure a smooth architecture migration.

Disaggregation & Virtualization

19 Pages2.62 MB2/17/17

This solution brief illustrates Juniper Networks’ pioneering position in software/hardware disaggregation, using an open technology framework to ensure a smooth architecture migration. Benefits include:

• • Industry leader: Open and proven management and orchestration (MANO) platform with many tested and certified virtualized network functions (VNFs) from third-party companies
• • Virtual firewall: The industry’s highest performing and most efficient virtual firewall, which also supports 100G
• • Virtual router: The industry’s first full-featured carrier-grade virtual edge router, deployed with physical MX Series feature parity

 

Learn about the industry’s most innovative and comprehensive system to secure the distributed telco cloud.

Security Everywhere

17 Pages2.09 MB2/17/17

This solution brief illustrates the industry’s most innovative and comprehensive system to secure the distributed telco cloud. Benefits of the Security Everywhere solution include:

• • Comprehensive: Global policy orchestration, unified threat detection, and automated and localized enforcement
• • Interoperable: Security solution interoperability and integration with major radio access network (RAN) vendors
• • Integrated: Integrated security (policy enforcement) into products, such as the LTE IPsec Security Gateway (SecGW) function on pre-aggregation routers
• • High performance: The industry’s highest performance physical and virtual firewalls for networks and data centers
• • Open framework: Combined with proprietary countermeasures for advanced threat protection from the cloud

 

Learn about the industry’s most deployed and respected software-defined networking (SDN) solution for multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology network automation.

Automated Control & Orchestration

20 Pages2.63 MB2/17/17

This solution brief provides a look at the industry’s most deployed and respected SDN solution for multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology network automation. Topics include:

• • Cloud automation: Comprehensive cloud automation solution with multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology support
• • Cloud migration: Orchestration for on-demand network and data center expansion and easy migration to the cloud
• • Zero touch management: Seamless and automated end-to-end multilayer service provisioning, monitoring, and fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) management support
• • WAN SDN controller: Multivendor and multilayer topology discovery, path computation, simulation, and provisioning reduce TCO
• • Analytics: Deep analytics, telemetry, and correlation solutions provide upside revenue opportunities
• • Open framework: Support for NETCONF/YANG, OpenConfig, open APIs, and third-party tools (for example, Chef, Puppet, and Python)

 

Learn how Juniper Networks is laying the foundation for a next-generation secure distributed telco cloud.

Laying the Foundation for a Next-Generation Secure Distributed Telco Cloud

17 Pages924 KB6/1/17

This white paper outlines the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture, an end-to-end offering for your next-generation secure distributed telco cloud from the industry’s most trusted vendor. Key focus areas include:

• • Automated control and orchestration
• • Security everywhere
• • Disaggregation and virtualization
• • Distributed data centers
• • Integrated packet, optical, and timing solutions

 

Learn about integrated solutions from the technology innovator in packet networking and a market leader in optical data center interconnect (DCI).

Integrated Packet, Optical, and Timing Solutions within the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture

18 Pages1.55 MB10/12/17

This white paper showcases integrated solutions from the technology innovator in packet networking and a market leader in optical DCI. Topics Include:

• Industry leader: The leader in optical DCI and router performance, throughput, scale, slot density, and power efficiency
• Multilayer efficiency: Ability to coordinate, optimize, and reduce complexity across Layers 0-3, thereby reducing TCO
• Flexible solutions: Small cell and hardened cell site router options
• Unique integrated timing: The only vendor today that meets strict timing requirements (phase and frequency) of LTE Advanced (LTE-A) and 5G
• Monetization: Adding software to routers to personalize Gi-LAN subscriber services and enable new revenue

 

Learn about the broad portfolio of data center devices from Juniper Networks, from micro data centers at the edge to large-scale data centers in the core.

Distributed Data Centers within the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture

23 Pages1.46 MB6/1/17

This white paper illustrates how extensively Juniper Networks supports data center architectures, from micro data centers at the edge to large-scale data centers. Benefits include:

• • Rich features and performance: Feature parity between Juniper Networks’ routers and data center switches
• • Low-latency services: Deploy virtualized network functions (VNFs) at network edge micro data centers to address self-driving cars, industrial control systems, and remote healthcare
• • Flexible solution: Most modular family of top-of-rack (ToR) and end-of-row (EoR) data center switches ever built
• • Investment protection: The same switch supports multiple data center fabric architectures, which can change or grow
• • Integrated solution: Network and operations integration with other cloud platforms

 

Understand how Juniper Networks is pioneering software and hardware disaggregation, using an open technology framework to ensure a smooth architecture migration.

Disaggregation and Virtualization within the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture

19 Pages1.71 MB6/1/17

This white paper illustrates Juniper Networks’ pioneering position in software/hardware disaggregation, using an open technology framework to ensure a smooth architecture migration. Benefits include:

• • Industry leader: Open and proven management and orchestration (MANO) platform with many tested and certified virtualized network functions (VNFs) from third-party companies
• • Virtual firewall: The industry’s highest performing and most efficient virtual firewall, which also supports 100G
• • Virtual router: The industry’s first full-featured carrier-grade virtual edge router, deployed with physical MX Series feature parity

 

Learn about the industry's most innovative and comprehensive system to secure the distributed telco cloud.

Security Everywhere within the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture

18 Pages1.12 MB10/12/17

This white paper illustrates the industry's most innovative and comprehensive system to secure the distributed telco cloud. Benefits of the Security Everywhere solution include::

• Comprehensive: Global policy orchestration, unified threat detection, and automated and localized enforcement
• Interoperable: Security solution interoperability and integration with major radio access network (RAN) vendors
• Integrated: Integrated security (policy enforcement) into products, such as the LTE IPsec Security Gateway (SecGW) function on pre-aggregation routers
• High performance: The industry's highest performance physical and virtual firewalls for networks and data centers
• Open framework: Combined with proprietary countermeasures for advanced threat protection from the cloud

 

Learn about the industry’s most deployed and respected software-defined networking (SDN) solution for multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology network automation.

Automated Control and Orchestration within the Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud Architecture

14 Pages862 KB10/12/17

This white paper provides a look at the industry’s most deployed and respected SDN solution for multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology network automation. Topics include:

• Cloud automation: Comprehensive cloud automation solution with multivendor, multilayer, and multitechnology support
• Cloud migration:  Orchestration for on-demand network and data center expansion and easy migration to the cloud
• Zero touch management:  Seamless and automated end-to-end multilayer service provisioning, monitoring, and fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) management support
• WAN SDN controller:  Multivendor and multilayer topology discovery, path computation, simulation, and provisioning reduce TCO
• Analytics: Deep analytics, telemetry, and correlation solutions provide upside revenue opportunities
• Open framework:  Support for NETCONF/YANG,  OpenConfig, open APIs, and third-party tools (for example, Chef, Puppet, and Python)

 

Learn how Juniper Networks and NEC combine to offer a best-in-class, end-to-end turnkey mobile backhaul solution.

Delivering Scalable and Cost-Effective HetNet Backhaul

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With bandwidth-intensive mobile data traffic and subscriber density constantly increasing, mobile operators face an ongoing capacity problem. Some solutions to this issue include the introduction of the small cell within the heterogeneous network (HetNet) framework, and moving from legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) transport network infrastructure towards metro Ethernet and seamless IP/MPLS, as well as SDH microwave to faster packet-based millimeter wave wireless links. The use of micro and millimeter waves combined with carrier Ethernet is a necessity, and brings the advantages of capacity, scalability, and flexibility to deliver cost-effective, optimized backhaul networks. This solution brief describes the Juniper Networks and NEC microwave and millimeter wave backhaul solution.

 

Learn about the Juniper Networks LTE security gateway solution using SRX Series Services Gateways.

LTE Security for Mobile Service Provider Networks

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Mobile networks have evolved from voice-centric archtectures to data-centric, all-IP network architectures. A key design consideration is to provide robust security for these more open networks. This white paper describes LTE security requirements and the corresponding impact to MSPs and their customers. 

 

Learn how the Juniper Networks Universal Access solution provides a fully integrated, end-to-end network architecture that combines operational intelligence with capital cost savings.

Building a Universal Access Network

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Convergence and network simplification have been hallmark trends for service providers in recent years. While Juniper Networks has led the way with the move to a consolidated Universal Edge, Universal Access solutions have remained a challenge due to the disparate technologies developed for mobile, residential, and business access. This white paper describes how the Juniper Networks Universal Access solution for mobile backhaul, business Ethernet services, and circuit to Ethernet migration, complements the Universal Edge with a seamless end-to-end service delivery platform.

 

Learn about Juniper Networks and Affirmed Networks joint solution for virtualized mobile networking.

Juniper Networks Mobile Cloud with Affirmed Networks Virtualized EPC Solution

4 Pages230 KB2/1/18

This brief describes Juniper Networks and Affirmed Networks joint solution for virtualized mobile networking, which combines Affirmed’s Mobile Content Cloud (MCC) virtualized EPC with Juniper’s Contrail Provider Cloud, Appformix, and vSRX Virtual Firewall, to help wireless providers deploy new services faster and at significantly lower cost than legacy solutions.

 

Learn how a 5G-ready technology strategy can help you prepare for rapid 5G deployment in a way that optimizes your investment in next-generation IP and mobile core platforms.

White Paper: Designing 5G-Ready Mobile Core Networks

14 Pages2.37 MB9/1/16

This paper discusses 1) how 5G services drive a requirement for an IP services fabric to connect the distributed data centers that will host network functions, content, and applications, and 2) the development of cloud-native, service-oriented core networks for advanced 4G and 5G networks.

 

Learn how to quickly introduce subscriber-specific services using SDN technologies.

White Paper: Personalized Subscriber Services: Architectural Options for Mobile Operators

10 Pages1.47 MB1/1/16

This paper investigates architectural options that enable operators to quickly introduce subscriber-specific services in a virtualized "service complex" using SDN technologies, with a focus on the Layer 3-7 "cloud edge" services typically deployed behind the P-GW.