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The cloud-ready data center requires network resources to be shared across different user groups at scale, while still maintaining granular policies that control security and performance. That means the network needs to support resources that are allocated, expanded, and re-allocated efficiently at scale. Juniper’s data center architecture delivers the agility and scaling required by virtualizing network configurations, segmenting services into logical domains, and using industry-leading hardware designs to scale without complexity. With a large pool of resources to draw on, customers can efficiently partition those resources to meet service requirements and remain elastic while ensuring performance, security, and controls.

The Juniper Networks approach to sharing the network revolves around aligning capacities, bandwidth, priorities, and availability goals with application requirements using technologies based on standards and simplified network architectures.

For example, Virtual Chassis technology, allows multiple devices to be interconnected and behave as a single device. Across all of the routing, switching, and security platforms, customers have unmatched scale and agility in processing ACLs, or “policy filters” that forward traffic according to rules for the designated types at line rate and at all packet sizes. Juniper’s security services and policies nest VLANs within logical zones for security segmentation. With MPLS network virtualization and VPLS technologies, VPNs can be used to extend those zones, and VLANs can be stretched across data centers or pods for more flexible shared links to the cloud.

Leveraging the Junos operating system with an open network automation platform and a rich set of support services help to minimize risk and speed time to deployment for an agile, secure cloud-ready data center network.

Solution Components

Switching

• EX Series Ethernet Switches: The EX Series Ethernet Switches deliver unmatched scale and performance for L2 and L3 data center networks. The high-density, high-performance EX8200 modular switches support data center and cloud computing environments While the EX4200 and EX4500 switches with Virtual Chassis fabric technology work together in top-of-rack deployments to support a mix of 1GbE and 10GbE ports. Virtual Chassis technology allows multiple interconnected switches to operate as a single device, reducing management overhead.
• QFX Series Switches: The QFX3500 Switch, the first member of the QFabric QFX Series of products, is a high-performance, ultra low-latencyL2/L3 10GbE top-of-rack switch designed for the most demanding applications. The QFX3500 supports FCoE transit, FCoE-FC Gateway and IEEE DCB capabilities and, when deployed with other QFX Series components, delivers a fabric-ready edge solution for the highly scalable, efficient QFabric architecture for today’s cloud-ready data center.

Routing

• BX Series Multi-Access Gateway: Allows cloud services to be delivered to mobile PDA devices, while preparing the way for future migration to 4G technologies.
• M Series Multiservice Edge Routers: Combine best-in-class integrated virtualization and traffic management with unmatched reliability, stability, security, and service richness to connect the cloud-ready data center to the WAN.
• MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers: A family of high-performance Ethernet services routers with powerful switching and security features that delivers the most advanced routing features as well as the ability to scale functionality without compromising performance. Advanced routing features include MPLS network virtualization, low latency multicast, advanced QoS, carrier-class reliability, and security. MX Series routers are designed for future support of Juniper’s unique Virtual Chassis technology, which will enable multiple interconnected MX Series routers to operate as a single device to simplify manageability.

Security

• SA Series SSL VPN Appliances: Deliver scalable, simplified, and secure remote access to data center resources from multiple remote networks and platforms.
• SRX Series Services Gateway: Combine routing, switching, application services, and user- and application-aware security within a modular, expandable chassis to deliver unprecedented performance and flexibility while reducing management overhead.
• vGW Series: Secure the virtual data center and cloud computing environments in real-time through this high-performance, hypervisor-based stateful firewall that provides virtual network visibility, monitoring, and reporting. vGW enforces a granular virtualized security policy consistent and integrated with physical server security, and automatically invoke policy enforcement as VMs change and move, all with zero VM host capacity drain.

Junos Platform

• Junos Pulse: A dynamic, standards-based multiservice network client that drastically simplifies user experiences by delivering integrated connectivity, access, application acceleration, and security.
• Junos Space: Provides applications for network infrastructure automation including:
  • Junos Space Ethernet Design — Helps deploy an entire network just as easily as a single switch.
  • Junos Space Network Activate — Allows for full lifecycle management of MPLS services, and quick and easy set-up of VPLS services.
  • Junos Space Route Insight — Enables rapid planning, troubleshooting, and change simulation for L3 services.
  • Junos Space Service Now — Automates diagnostics to speed problem resolution.
  • Junos Space Service Insight — Delivers proactive, actionable network insight to manage risk and improve application reliability.
  • Junos Space Security Design — Enables bulk configuration and provisioning of complex security policies.
  • Junos Space Virtual Control — Provides access and visibility into the virtual network and automated orchestration between the physical and virtual networks for server virtualization deployments.

Network Operating System

• Junos: Integrates routing, switching, and security services to reduce complexity, achieve operational excellence, and deliver dynamic services with lower TCO.

Network Management

• Network and Security Manager (NSM): Provides a single pane of management for the entire network infrastructure, including routing, switching, and security devices.
• STRM Series Security Threat Response Managers: Collect events and alerts from different Juniper and third-party products and aggregate them in order to provide an enterprise-wide threat management view.

Technical Services

• Juniper Technical Services: A family of services that protects your investment in a high-performance network while increasing operational effectiveness and lowering operational cost. The services combine Juniper’s service automation technology to increase productivity, reduce risk and increase network uptime by automating diagnostics and reducing time-to-resolution (TTR). This industry leading innovation increases operational efficiency by allowing your staff to concentrate on running the business, not fixing the equipment. By adding to these features an expert level of interaction with senior Juniper technical support engineers, Juniper Technical Services provide for extremely effective troubleshooting and service restoration resulting in higher availability.

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