Customer Success Story
Transforming Customer Experiences Across Mobile, Residential, and Business Services
Running many disparate networks was slowing Telefónica’s ability to implement new services. The solution? Merging its networks and the people and processes surrounding them.
Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. When it became difficult to keep up with traffic growth across its many disparate networks, the company teamed with Juniper to simplify things by converging disparate telecom organizations and processes.
Overview
| Company | Telefonica |
| Industry | Service Provider |
| Products used | MX960, MX2020, MX10004 and MX10008 |
| Region | EMEA |
Business Challenge
Meeting the ongoing demand for greater network capacity across its many individually operated commercial and enterprise networks was becoming difficult. The company had to reconfigure many pieces of equipment whenever it wanted to expand capacity and was concerned it wouldn’t be able to keep up much longer.
Technology Solution
The situation called for drastically simplifying Telefónica’s infrastructures and operating environments. The provider created a converged, flat network for IP and aggregation functions using the Juniper Networks MX Series Universal Routing Platform. The carrier can now deploy new services from a single services edge, which also connects to other networks, radio base stations, enterprise customers, and over-the-top (OTT) providers.
Business Results
The new network allows far faster and more flexible growth. Telefónica says it can now add as much as 5 Tbps each year to its 10-Tbps platform—a fivefold increase over previous capabilities—and it operates at a lower cost per port. Network changes now involve just a single node, rather than configuring links across multiple network devices.
The Products
MX960
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.
MX2020
The SDN-enabled MX2020 Universal Routing Platform is a high-capacity, carrier-grade, multiservice edge platform with extensive automation capabilities to help service providers and cloud operators address long-term bandwidth, subscriber, and services growth. The MX2020 Universal Routing Platform delivers 80 Tbps of system capacity and supports up to 800 x 100GbE or 160 x 400GbE interfaces in a single chassis.
MX10004 and MX10008
The MX10004 and MX10008 Universal Routing Platforms deliver unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud operators, enabling advanced business and residential multi-service edge services with a cloud-optimized form factor, and superior cost-per-bit economics. The MX10004 and MX10008 are SDN-enabled, delivering up to 76.8 Tbps of system capacity in 4, 8, or 16 slot chassis supporting dense 100 GbE, 400 GbE, and, in the future, 800 GbE interfaces. These carrier-grade platforms have extensive automation capabilities.