Juniper Unveils Products For Enterprise Campus And Datacentre Infrastructures

Juniper Networks, the network innovation service provider, has unveiled three new products designed to boost business agility and simplify network management. A massive spike in BYOD, mobile users and new enterprise application deployments has created network congestion and complexity. Compounded with the challenge of contracting IT budgets, these trends have severely restricted IT’s ability to quickly respond and maintain network reliability. Many enterprises use single purpose legacy infrastructures, built in silos and defined by their location in the enterprise, that can’t keep pace with rapid changes in compute, storage and application requirements and often inhibit service delivery.

In order to maximise delivery and availability of next-generation cloud services, server virtualisation and rich media applications, Juniper introduces a new agile, “programmable” network. This will enable network operators to respond to business changes and monitor and react to how the network meets application service level agreement (SLA) requirements in a matter of seconds, not days or weeks.

Juniper Networks has addressed these challenges with a series of new products for enterprise campus and datacentre infrastructures. The new Juniper Networks EX9200 Programmable Switch enables accelerated response to changing business needs, while its built-in ability to support a virtual WLAN controller, the Juniper Networks JunosV Wireless LAN Controller, will deliver high levels of reliability and flexibility across the enterprise to lower capital expense.

The Junos Space Network Director provides a single-pane-of-glass network management solution for wired and wireless LANs and datacentres, consolidating multiple management tools to simplify network operations and deliver a comprehensive advanced platform that prepares enterprises for tomorrow’s applications, services and workload demands.

Some of the features are:Industry Leading Programmability –
To prepare enterprise campuses and datacentres for new technologies and business requirements, the EX9200 provides a high level of programmability required for emerging applications and environments. Built upon the Juniper One Programmable ASIC, the EX9200 prepares enterprises for emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) protocols, allowing for network automation and interoperability without the need for additional hardware. This eliminates cost, complexity and time delays from line card upgrades or new infrastructure deployments, empowering enterprises to be more nimble and efficient. In enterprise campus and datacentre deployments, the EX9200 Virtual Chassis technology simplifies the network architecture, reducing network devices and layers of up to fifty percent.

Wireless LAN Controller Delivered as a Service for the Enterprise – Addressing the need to support the growing trend of BYOD and seamless integration between wired and wireless networks, Juniper Networks is the only vendor to deliver a flexible virtual WLAN controller designed to run on any combination of physical appliances, on a virtual machine (VM), or directly on Juniper Networks switches (future). Juniper has made wireless controller functionality a service on the network while offering consistent capabilities such as controller clustering, in-service software upgrades, self-organising adds, moves and changes, and local switching across the portfolio. At the same time, none of these implementations is tied to a specific location within the enterprise. This simplifies network deployments, increases flexibility, reduces costs with a pay-as-you-grow model and delivers high reliability for wired and wireless networks. Enterprises don’t need to have multiple islands of networks within their infrastructure and can instead have a common, unified end-to-end network for user access – whether it’s wired or wireless.

Managing the Network from a Single Pane – Increasing network complexity makes network behavior unpredictable and difficult to forecast the effects of network changes. Junos Space Network Director, a single campus-to-datacentre management tool, provides a holistic view into the enterprise network. By administering the wired and wireless infrastructure, users, applications, and services from a central location, Junos Space Network Director accelerates application deployment time and reduces complexity and operational expenditures.

Jonathan Davidson, Senior Vice President, Campus and Data Center Business Unit, Juniper Networks, said, “It is critical for enterprises to design their infrastructure to adapt to emerging business requirements with programmable and flexible platforms. Juniper’s new EX9200 Programmable Switch, the virtualised JunosV WLAN Controller and Junos Space Network Director future-readies enterprises for adaptability and ultimately cost optimisation—a solution customers can buy today and that will grow with their needs over time.”