Network Diversity Helps Simple Helix Keep Collocation Services Accessible 24/7
Simple Helix, an upstart collocation and managed IT services provider, fits right in with Huntsville, Alabama’s heritage as an engineering and scientific powerhouse. Its Tier 3 data center is built to meet the compute, storage, and networking needs of the scientific elite. Juniper networking powers its data center and regional fiber network
Business Challenge
A data center packed with best-in-class technology, stringent uptime, and tight security is rapidly attracting new customers across the Huntsville region. Government and defense agencies, universities and colleges, and tech companies have signed on for Simple Helix’s massive high-compute clusters and storage capacity.
The Products
The SDN-enabled MX960 Universal Routing Platform is a high performance, carrier-grade, multiservice edge platform with unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud applications. The MX960 enables inline MACsec support without performance penalties on 10, 40 GbE and 100 GbE, and delivers 12 Tbps of system capacity in a 12 slot chassis supporting dense 100 GbE, 400 GbE interfaces. Similar to the other MX Series Universal Router Platforms, the MX960 has extensive carrier grade capabilities.
The QFX5100 line of top-of-rack 10/40GbE switches for the data center offers low latency, deployment versatility, and rich automation features. These switches provide universal building blocks for industry-standard architectures such as spine-and-leaf fabrics.
The EX3400 line of Ethernet switches are a cost-effective solution for today’s most demanding converged data, voice, and video enterprise access networks.
The EX4600 Ethernet Switch offers a compact, highly scalable, high-performance 10GbE solution for enterprise campus distribution deployments as well as low-density data center top-of-rack environments.
