Solution Reference Architecture Overview: Broadband Edge
Residential broadband providers are experiencing explosive bandwidth demand driven by an ever-expanding array of home and mobile applications, especially online video. Increasing bandwidth demand and subscriber expectation for high-quality user experience is challenging service provider business models, as the network investment has outpaced revenue growth. Now, service providers are struggling to decrease operational and capital expenditures while providing the same level of service, and to identify innovative service offerings that will drive new revenue streams. The existing broadband edge architecture is distributed among a variety of routers, switches, and appliances, making management and service creation difficult.
The broadband edge demands a new architecture that can enable a high-quality user experience for subscribers and empower the provider to reduce expenses and drive new, innovative services that can increase average revenue per user (ARPU). The Juniper Networks Broadband Edge Reference Architecture is designed and verified to meet this challenge and improve the economics of the network edge.
Introduction
The Juniper Networks Broadband Edge solution enables providers to maintain traditional multiplay services with a simpler, collapsed service model that consolidates management and service activation points. The benefits of this approach include faster rollouts of differentiated service offerings and greater operational efficiency, which contribute to higher margins.
This Solution Reference Architecture document addresses:
Industry trends that impact architectural decisions
Design considerations that must be taken into account when planning a new network architecture
Solution architecture covering the operational elements of the Juniper Networks Broadband Edge solution
About Juniper Networks Validated Solutions
Juniper Networks validated solutions are complete domain architectures that are expertly designed, fully tested, and completely documented to allow customers to deploy complex network systems with maximum assurance. Juniper Networks solution validation labs put all solutions through extensive testing using both simulation and live network elements to ensure comprehensive validation of all published solutions. Customer use cases, common domain examples, and field experience are combined to generate prescriptive architectures and configurations to guide customer and partner implementations of Juniper Networks solutions.
Target Audience
The primary audience for this guide includes the following technical personnel:
Network Architects–Responsible for creating the overall design of the network architecture that supports their company’s business objectives
Sales Engineers–Responsible for working with architects, planners, and operations engineers to design and implement the network solution
Juniper Networks Partners–Channel partners and system integrators that seek to design and build Juniper Networks-based broadband edge implementations