Validation Framework

Extensive testing of best practice architectures is key to the Juniper Validated Design (JVD) program. JVDs qualify and quantify these best practice architectures, providing customers knowledge about the products and how solution can be deployed.

JVDs employ a layered testing approach to deliver reliability and repeatability. Individual features receive functional testing. Multifunction testing builds on this functional testing to see if multiple features work together. Product delivery testing builds upon multifunctional testing to validate that these features combined perform as expected for tested use cases, and JVD testing builds upon product delivery testing by testing multiple products together (including third-party integrations where appropriate) to ensure that all these products combined make an industry-leading solution.

Testing with real-world applications and traffic provides more accurate data regarding performance and response to different configurations. The standardized nature of JVDs ensures the same network architecture is deployed in multiple testing environments, and the use of JVDs by multiple customers allows for any lessons learned in production deployments to rapidly benefit all JVD customers. The more JVDs that are deployed worldwide, the greater the value they provide to all.