Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the {industry} chief in community innovation, as we speak introduced enhancements within the efficiency, density and operational effectivity of its SDN-ready Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routing portfolio with new {hardware} and software program options that triple throughput and allow community automation. With these capabilities, the {industry}’s highest performing edge router delivers the size and automation that service suppliers and cloud operators require to bolster the economics of next-generation networks.
Consumer and enterprise urge for food for HD video, cloud providers and always-on collaboration instruments have pressured community operators so as to add unprecedented ranges of capability to their infrastructure, all whereas attempting to stay worthwhile. At the identical time, giant enterprises are constructing more and more subtle networks to allow the deployment of hybrid clouds and versatile wide-area networks, making a state of affairs the place IT is a aggressive benefit. In order to stay related in as we speak’s extraordinarily aggressive market, clients intimately perceive that throwing extra terabits on the downside alone is not going to clear up issues; however relatively, they need to additionally use new instruments that automate guide, innovation-stifling duties and permit for additional programmability throughout the community to enhance operations and service velocity.
Today’s announcement marks an essential milestone within the nine-year evolution of the MX Series, which has pioneered many routing improvements since its inception in 2006, together with the introduction of the {industry}’s highest capability edge router with the MX2020 in 2012 and the primary full-featured, carrier-grade digital router with the vMX in 2014. To date, Juniper Networks has bought an MX Series router each hour for the reason that collection was unveiled in 2006. More than 90 % of the 50 largest telecom firms as we speak use MX Series routers of their networks, and with as we speak’s new {hardware} and software program upgrades, we consider these firms will proceed to fulfill their clients’ calls for for years to come back.
The MX Series, powered by programmable Trio silicon and the Juniper Networks Junos software program, offers clients funding safety and presents a community software improvement platform that seamlessly integrates with evolving SDN and NFV options.
News Highlights
Juniper Networks continues to set a brand new bar for efficiency, capability and automation with the next developments for the MX Series:
New MX Series line playing cards: The new MPC7, MPC8 and MPC9 line playing cards, all powered by programmable Trio silicon, present high-density community connectivity and unmatched bandwidth, subscriber and providers scale. The 400 GbE-ready MPC9 supplies an industry-leading 1.6 Tbps of throughput, enabling a single MX2020 to scale to 32 Tbps of throughput, sufficient to stream greater than 2 million 4K movies concurrently. Additionally, the brand new MPC7 doubles the efficiency and density of all at the moment put in MX240, MX480 and MX960 routers, offering clients with unprecedented funding safety.
Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET), which makes use of open software programming interfaces (APIs), yields new automation capabilities within the carrier-class Junos software program. JET supplies a programmatic interface to develop extremely custom-made third-party functions, resembling provisioning and self-healing capabilities. These functions can reside on or off the MX2010 or MX2020 to seamlessly work together with the community layer. Not restricted to the MX Series, JET is accessible on all Juniper platforms that run Junos software program. In addition, JET consists of assist for OpenConfig, a standardized, vendor-independent configuration and administration functionality with customizable YANG knowledge fashions for versatile vendor integration.
Junos Telemetry Interface: The {industry}’s first high-frequency telemetry export perform on a networking platform to optimize community efficiency and fault administration. Junos Telemetry Interface facilitates SDN/NFV migrations by synchronizing operational states to exterior controllers. Advanced analytics and real-time knowledge correlation to ship real-time reporting at scale are made attainable by superior applied sciences from firms like SevOne, a number one international supplier of digital infrastructure administration options.
MPC7, MPC8 and MPC9 line playing cards, Juniper Extension Toolkit with OpenConfig assist and Junos Telemetry Interface are anticipated to be accessible in 1H 2016.
Supporting Quotes
“Customers rely on Axians for innovative network solutions to improve their business and gain a competitive advantage. To achieve this, we advocate the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers from Juniper Networks, which we successfully deploy in our customers’ networks. The reason why the MX Series has proven so popular is largely due to the continuous technology improvements made in terms of scale, performance and reliability. This provides the ideal choice for us to support the application of innovative services being created and deployed within our customers’ networks.”
David Millar, providers director at Axians, “As trusted network experts dedicated to providing service provider customers with infrastructure solutions that deliver maximum business value, the MX Series has consistently remained a top tool in our arsenal throughout the years. Given that the focus of enfoPoint’s business is designing, implementing and maintaining high-availability infrastructures for mission-critical networks, there is literally no room for error. The MXs performance, capacity and advanced feature set allow us to architect networks that deliver reliable performance year after year. In the many years we’ve had it in our product portfolio, I’ve never had to apologize for selling an MX.”
Tom Spear, chief govt officer at enfoPoint, “As a long-term customer of Juniper security and switching products, we closely follow the continuous innovation demonstrated by the MX series routers as a complement to our end-to-end network strategy. Through its own interoperability testing, Expedient validated that the platform can deliver the features, performance and scalability required by the demands of our network growth trajectory. Additionally, our vision of converged network service automation is supported by the API capabilities of the Junos Extension Toolkit, which will enable us to meet the evolving expectations of our data center and cloud customers for years to come.”
Dan Pregman, director of Network Planning and Architecture at Expedient
“The ability to deliver innovative high-quality services rapidly is an advantage that differentiates us in our competitive marketplace. With its service agility and advanced automation features, the MX Series has helped us build tremendous momentum with our highly differentiated strategy to expand cloud networking services to multinational clients, to extend network connectivity to any location in the world and any application in the cloud, and to deliver outstanding client experience by living our core values of simplicity, speed and agility.”
Bob Burris, senior vice chairman of Global Engineering and Operations at GTT, “We have used the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and Junos software for many years, and the continuous stream of improvements to scale, performance and reliability not only enable us to meet today’s requirements, they will also allow us to efficiently meet increasing customer demand for years to come, without disrupting our operations environment.”
Junichi Shimagami, Director and CTO at Internet Initiative Japan Inc., “In the last couple of years, the networking landscape has changed dramatically and the ability to provision infrastructure and manage the network effectively is made possible through software and automation. Couple that with the ability to derive real-time analytics and data insights from the network in order to make informed decisions that impact the end user experience and the network becomes an extremely powerful platform that can help drive business decision-making processes. As a global managed data center service provider, the network sits at the heart of our business and we need a combination of network performance and intelligence that Juniper is able to provide. Today’s advancements in MX performance and new Junos automation capabilities speak directly to ServerCentral’s needs and we look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Juniper.”
Alex Latzko, lead community engineer at ServerCentral, “As a leading broadband services company, our customers rely on us for innovative services that improve the ways in which they live and work. We use the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and Junos software to maintain a reliable, high performance and scalable network infrastructure with the agility to adapt at the speed of our business, and are pleased with the continued evolution of the MX Series to meet the increasing demands of digital transformation.”
Ove Tien, supervisor of IP engineering at Telenor Norway“Providing exceptional value to our customers means we must maintain a cutting-edge network while keeping costs to a minimum. The MX Series helps us achieve these goals while delivering the compelling services our customers expect. The scale and service agility of the MX Series helps us achieve these goals by consolidating services and functions-such as edge and core routing-on a single platform. This improves our capital and operational efficiency and results in real savings we can pass along to customers.”
Jide Akintola, head of Network Engineering and Design at TMX Atrium, “We adopted the MX Series as our edge router years ago, and we are very pleased that Juniper continues to evolve the platform in ways that meet our current and emerging business and market requirements. The MX Series enables us to deliver the innovative services our customers want at the scale our business demands.”
Nasrudin Abd Shukor, Director of ICT at Universiti Malaysia Perlis, “When a client comes in asking for a solution that provides long-term investment protection, I immediately think of Juniper’s MX Series. As a national distributor of high quality network solutions for the telecom industry, we work with a variety of clients from wireless providers to government entities and for all of them, performance and future-proofed capacity are paramount. Whether it be a new network roll-out or an addition to an existing implementation, the MX Series provides our clients with the best combination of performance and investment protection to power their networks today and intotomorrow.”
Jerry Jones, subject programs engineer at Walker and Associates, “We believe the current generation of high capacity core and edge routers will be used for some time as the detailed steps of the SDN-NFV transformation are defined by each service provider. Service providers have already been deploying Juniper’s SDN-ready MX Series as physical and virtual routers in live networks as they move to SDN- and NFV-based networks, as also evidenced by Juniper’s No. 2 position in 3Q15 worldwide market share in service provider routing revenue.”
Michael Howard, senior analysis director at IHS Infonetics ,“You know you’re onto something when you have a platform that has continually outpaced Moore’s Law since the first MX shipped in 2006. As Juniper’s flagship edge routing platform, the MX Series is the market leader in feature availability, use case support, performance, reliability, scale, and now, with the addition of advanced Junos software features, we are extending our automation capabilities. In an industry that’s constantly touting the ‘new,’ it’s important to remember that customers are making significant technology investments with the expectation that it will continue to deliver ROI for many years. With the MX Series, we believe customers can invest with the confidence that the platform will exceed requirements for future network demands.”
Jonathan Davidson, govt vice chairman and normal supervisor, Juniper Development and Innovation
Additional Resources
Blog: MX-imum Overdrive by Matt Hurley, company vice chairman, Worldwide Partner and Field Marketing at Juniper Networks
Blog: The Global Internet Phenomena and the New Network Edge by Tom DiMicelli, senior supervisor of Service Provider Portfolio Marketing at Juniper Networks
Blog: An Intro to Juniper’s JET Automation Framework and How to Use It by Renuke Mendis, senior supervisor of Service Provider Portfolio Marketing at Juniper Networks
About Juniper Networks
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