Juniper Networks Expands Partnership with Ericsson to Accelerate 5G Transformation
September 05 2018 - 03:00AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced it has expanded
its 18-year partnership with Ericsson, a global leader in mobile
networks, to deliver a comprehensive end-to-end 5G solution
leveraging each company’s complementary portfolios. Together, the
companies are now offering service providers a complete 5G
transport network solution with single pane of glass visibility to
manage the new requirements of next-generation mobile service
delivery.
This deepened partnership aims to offer service providers a
complete solution from radio to core for new-service delivery while
managing mounting complexity. 5G is expected to be a game changer
for the next generation of business and consumer services, but the
increase in connectivity, network traffic and customer expectations
will likely create new challenges for managing the mobile transport
network in a cost-effective way. Evolving 5G use cases, including
connected cars, AR/VR and 8K video streaming, and the associated 5G
radio requirements needed to support these diverse applications can
place additional demands across the network. Capacity,
connectivity, latency, synchronization, reliability and security
needs will all require tighter integration between the 5G radio,
core and transport layers of an end-to-end mobile network.
To alleviate these challenges, Juniper’s expanded partnership
with Ericsson greatly simplifies service providers’ 5G
transformation by creating a tightly integrated solution that
combines Juniper’s routing for next generation WAN services and IP
transport, and Ericsson’s Router 6000 and MINI-LINK microwave
portfolio for distributed, centralized and virtualized radio
access. In addition, the solution leverages Juniper’s Unified
Cybersecurity Platform to secure the entire 5G mobile
infrastructure against ever-expanding and sophisticated threats.
This comprehensive solution provides seamless connectivity from the
radio cell site to the mobile core all unified under Ericsson’s
management and orchestration solution, improving the performance,
quality and ease-of-use of the entire 5G solution. The joint
end-to-end 5G transport solution will be designed and built from
day one with the intent of supporting exceptional 5G radio
performance in a cost-effective way.
As part of this deepened partnership, Juniper will utilize
Ericsson’s go-to-market for mobile opportunities and Ericsson will
include Juniper’s solutions for edge, core and security as part of
its end-to-end 5G transport portfolio.
News Details
Ericsson and Juniper have come together to deliver a full
end-to-end mobile solution to ease service providers’ evolution to
5G. The solution encompasses the following products from each
company:
- Access, fronthaul/backhaul:
- Ericsson Router 6000 flagship mobile backhaul portfolio.
- Ericsson Fronthaul 6000 includes high density optical solutions
that complement microwave solutions for CPRI and eCPRI
transport.
- Microwave radio backhaul:
- Ericsson’s MINI-LINK is a 5G-ready microwave technology.
- WAN Services and IP Transport:
- Juniper’s MX and PTX Series provide a high degree of
versatility to support mobile infrastructure for 10G/100G/400G
optical transport, simplified operations with Juniper’s unique
universal design, advanced Junos OS software functionality
including Junos Node Slicing, Juniper Telemetry Interfaces and an
open, standards-based hardware-accelerated 5G CUPS User Plane.
- Juniper’s MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform is the
industry’s only WAN edge services solution to deliver near-infinite
programmability, cost efficiency and versatility with performance
at scale for the evolving technological and business demands of
next-generation mobile services delivery.
- Juniper’s PTX Series Packet Transport Routers are built to
optimize IP/MPLS transport for backbone, peering and converged
metro core applications.
- Juniper’s transport routers offer integrated dense
wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) interfaces with
interoperability between the MX, PTX series and Ericsson’s Router
6000.
- Security Gateway & Gi Firewall:
- Ericsson Radio Base Stations are already integrated with the
Juniper’s SRX Series Services Gateway, a high performance and
highly scalable next-gen firewall platform, providing both Gi
Firewall and security gateway solutions for end-to-end 4G/5G
offerings. Juniper will continue to enhance its security solutions
to work efficiently with Ericsson’s RAN solutions as they evolve to
5G.
- Unified management and control:
- Ericsson’s management and orchestration solution will be
applied across Ericsson and Juniper products, which will be fully
integrated, including full FCAPS support.
Ericsson and Juniper will be demonstrating this end-to-end 5G
transport solution at the Ericsson booth S.1724 in the South Hall
at MWC Americas Sept 12-14 in Los Angeles, CA.
Supporting quotes
“Commercial 5G is expected to represent close to a quarter of
all global network traffic in the next five years. With both
companies bringing together industry-leading network technology,
Juniper and Ericsson will be able to more effectively capitalize on
the immense global market opportunity in front of us and help our
customers simplify their journey to fully operational 5G
networks.”
- Manoj Leelanivas, Chief Product Officer, Juniper Networks
“By combining Ericsson’s leading transport portfolio with
Juniper’s best-in-class edge, core and security portfolio, we will
create an end-to-end transport offering that is ready for all the
demands of next-generation networks. Our customers will benefit
from the one-stop-shop approach, making it easier for them to build
and operate high-performing 5G networks.”
- Nishant Batra, Head of Product Area Networks, Ericsson
Additional Resources
- Blog: Delivering on 5G from RAN to Core to Cloud
- Solution brief: Delivering an Integrated, Secure, and
Radio-Aware 5G Transport Network
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