Jackson Electric Co-Op Sees 30% Work-from-Home Internet Surge
When the coronavirus crisis forced the shutdown of America, Jackson Electric Cooperative turned it up. Broadband Internet became a lifeline for the residents of Matagorda Bay, Texas, in the U.S., with miles of Gulf Coast beaches and fresh oysters, blue crab, and shrimp. Jackson Electric’s smart community network, built on a foundation of Juniper routing, easily handled a 30% surge in Internet traffic and a 130% spike in subscriber connections.
Overview
| Company | Jackson Electric Cooperative |
| Industry | Energy and Utilities |
| Products used | MX204 , ACX5400 , EX4600 , Wired Assurance |
| Region | Americas |
Business Challenge
Juniper networking from core to edge supports smart meters for Jackson Electric’s electric business as well as for Internet services that connect schools, businesses, and homes. With digital inequalities exposed in the region, Jackson Electric is launching an outdoor Wi-Fi service based on the Mist Wireless LAN Platform that students and families can use to work and learn as they find their way to a new normal.
The Products
The SDN-enabled MX480 Universal Routing Platform offers unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud applications, enabling the delivery of advanced business and residential multi-service edge services. The MX480 Universal Routing Platform delivers 7.5 Tbps of system capacity that supports inline MACsec without performance penalties for 10/40/100 GbE interfaces. It is also a carrier-grade platform with extensive automation capabilities.
The ACX5400 Series of 1U routers provide power-efficient metro aggregation and support full IP/MPLS functionality. They deliver the performance required for efficient 1/10GbE-to-100GbE metro aggregation, MACsec security, and packet-optical convergence.
The Juniper Mist Wired Assurance service brings Mist AI to access-layer switching. It sets a new network management standard with AI-driven operations and automation, improving the experiences of devices connected to resources through Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches.
Juniper enables your business to scale elastically while minimizing capital investment through our modern cloud services that span the network and security domains.
