Juniper Networks Leads 400GbE Transition with Comprehensive Roadmap
July 24 2018 - 7:45AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced a broad 400GbE
refresh to its wide-area network, data center and enterprise
portfolio with leading routing and switching densities. The new
technology will help service provider, cloud and enterprise
customers recalibrate network economics as they transition to
400GbE to lower cost-per-bit while keeping up with increasing
bandwidth demands from emerging 5G, augmented and virtual reality,
cloud, and 4K video production and distribution.
Today’s news highlights upcoming 400GbE innovations across
Juniper’s PTX, QFX and MX series for a wide range of use cases,
including backbone, peering, data center interconnect, scale-out
metro core, telco-cloud services and hyperscale data center IP
fabrics, all of which demand high bandwidth, low latency and
uncompromised security. Building upon the recently announced
400GbE-capable Juniper Penta Silicon, the company plans to
introduce new generations of ExpressPlus and Q5 silicon to enable
native 400GbE and Flex Ethernet support with tighter MACsec
integration to thwart unlawful data intercept. Juniper’s next
generation silicon brings forward all existing functionality in
previous generations while adding deep telemetry, SPRINGv6 and
VXLAN EVPN support.
As service providers, cloud operators and enterprises all face
the challenge of keeping up with exponentially growing traffic,
Juniper continues to challenge the existing economics of networking
across its major product lines to meet the needs of a variety of
key customer use cases. With these innovations, Juniper is giving
its customers unprecedented capacity while also providing the
flexibility and programmability needed to continuously adapt to
future trends.
News highlights:
- IP Transport
- Juniper is executing its scale-out 400GbE WAN strategy with the
unveiling of the new 3-RU PTX10003 Packet
Transport Router for next-generation backbone, peering and
data center interconnect applications ready to deploy high density
100GbE and 400GbE. Scale-out is a fundamental design principle for
many cloud providers as they distribute service delivery closer to
subscribers for a consistent and high-quality user experience, and
the new PTX10003 – the industry’s first packet transport router to
accommodate universal multi-rate QSFP-DD interface for seamless
100GbE to 400GbE upgrades – delivers this in a cost-optimized form
factor with native MACsec support for 160x100GbE and FlexE support
for 32x400GbE interfaces. PTX10003, powered by the next generation
of ExpressPlus silicon, is expected to be available during the
second half of 2018.
- Data Center
- Juniper is enhancing its QFX series of data center
switches with 400GbE technology to enable the
next-generation of IP Fabric with investment protection as
customers increase the capacity of their data centers to meet
emerging high-performance applications and as server connectivity
transitions to 50GbE and 100GbE uplinks. Together with Contrail
Enterprise Multicloud, the QFX makes automating multiple
independent cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass
seamless.
- The new QFX10003 switches offer 32x400GbE in a compact 3-RU
form factor. The system can scale up to 160x100GbE giving customers
investment protection as they transition to 400GbE. The QFX10003,
which will be powered by the next generation Q5 silicon, features a
deep buffer enabled by Hybrid Memory Cube memory, allowing it to
absorb network traffic spikes and reduce application latency across
MACsec encrypted 25GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE environments. QFX10003 is
expected to be available during the second half of 2018.
- The new QFX5220 switches, which feature the latest generation
of merchant silicon, offer 32x400GbE in a compact 1-RU form factor.
These switches also offer flexible 50GbE, 100GbE and 400GbE
interfaces for server and inter-fabric connectivity, providing
deployment versatility and network investment for the 400GbE cloud
transition. The QFX5220 is expected to be available in the first
half of 2019.
- WAN Services
- The recently announced MX Series 5G Universal Routing
Platform, powered by Juniper’s new Penta Silicon, provides
customers with 400GbE interfaces and industry-first support of
native MACsec and IPsec encryption that can originate and terminate
thousands of IPsec sessions without sacrificing performance.
Juniper Penta Silicon-powered 400GbE MPC10E line cards for the
MX960, MX480 and MX240 are expected to be available in the first
half of 2019.
As in previous generations, Juniper’s modular chassis
innovations continue to deliver investment protection for the large
installed base of MX, PTX and QFX across carrier, cloud and
enterprise deployments with an upgrade path to 400GbE.
Supporting quotes
“The impending wave of network traffic is coming from all angles
and affecting all industries. Success will be about not only
equipping the network with the right technology to handle the
traffic in a secure way but also fine-tuning the economics so it
makes good business sense. We’re putting a stake in the ground
today in leading our customers’ transition to 400GbE network
capacity with the industry’s most comprehensive set of use cases,
including backbone, peering, data center IP fabric and metro core,
to enable our customers to economically usher in the next era of
connectivity.” — Bikash Koley, Chief
Technology Officer, Juniper Networks
“The network lies at the heart of what will make organizations
of all shapes and sizes successful in the modern world. At OARnet,
our mission is to reduce costs, increase productivity, and
improve customer service for Ohio’s education, health care,
public broadcasting and government communities. But for the new era
of connectivity to truly shine, as bandwidth needs continue to
increase, the network is going to need to evolve. Technologies such
as natively secure 400GbE will provide the needed technical
robustness to meet our growing requirements. Juniper Networks is
making a bold move in laying out its roadmap to accommodate these
kinds of future needs.” — Paul
Schopis, Chief Technology Officer, OARnet
“Internet traffic is growing exponentially and we need a way to
keep cost-per-bit down while still keeping up with the exploding
traffic growth. Juniper’s announcement adding 400GbE capability is
a huge step in the right direction for solving these challenges we
face.” — Junichi Shimagami, Director and
CTO at Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
“Operators, cloud service providers and enterprises are under
constant pressure to efficiently address unrelenting traffic
growth, and they are looking at 400G as a key enabler to do so.
2018 marks the start of the commercial 400G market, with volumes
ramping up in 2019 as 400G trials across WDM, service provider
routing, and data center switching applications convert into
production deployments. We expect $10 billion will be spent on 400G
technologies over the next five years.” —
Matthias Machowinski, senior research director at IHS
Markit
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Leveraging 400GbE to Improve Network Economics while
Driving Performance
- Juniper Networks named a Leader in Gartner’s latest Magic
Quadrant for Data Center Networking 2018
- Juniper Networks Named a Leader in Hardware Platforms for
Software-Defined Networking Report
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