Juniper Networks’ New Metro Fabric Modernizes Metro Service Delivery
March 13 2018 - 7:45AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced its new vision for
simplifying service delivery in complex metro networks. Building on
the company’s recent Affirmed Networks/Netronome, Juniper®
Contrail® Provider Cloud and Juniper Networks® Programmable
Photonic Layer announcements that enable service providers to
easily build and manage distributed clouds for new 5G and IoT
services, Juniper’s new Metro Fabric is designed to provide an
adaptive, agile and secure network infrastructure for simplified
service creation and delivery in the metro.
The variety of services and the number of
connected devices supported across metro networks – the layer of a
service provider’s infrastructure most commonly associated with
connecting subscribers to the internet – has recently expanded
exponentially. Ethernet business services, popular applications
like Netflix and Skype, IaaS offerings like Amazon Web Services and
a throng of IoT devices have proliferated and this will only
continue with emerging 5G rollouts. The result is a complex web of
legacy products, manual processes and divergent architectures and
protocols that have hindered true innovation and rendered it
difficult for service providers to keep up with bandwidth demands
and cost constraints.
Juniper’s Metro Fabric, comprising the
industry’s only disaggregated programmable photonic layer as well
as refreshed Juniper Networks ACX Series Universal Metro Routers
and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers, will infuse automation,
versatility, security and IP and open packet-optical networking
into the metro for new levels of operational simplicity. Service
providers building metro services for mobile, business, cable,
fiber residential and direct public cloud use cases, can now
leverage a modern service creation platform to quickly and
efficiently deliver new revenue-generating services. Today, Juniper
is introducing the initial building blocks of the refreshed metro:
two new ACX Series Routers, as well as a new PTX Series Packet
Transport Router. The company also intends to continue executing
against its plan to deliver a Self-Driving NetworkTM across its
networking portfolio, including the new Metro Fabric.
News highlights:
- Metro Fabric introduces the foundational
elements of the refreshed metro, and is designed to give service
providers hardware and software platforms to easily create and
manage new services, reduce operating costs and optimize capital
investment. Today, Juniper is announcing:
- ACX5448 Universal Metro Router: Built to
smooth the transition from 10GbE to 100GbE as providers prepare for
the emerging 5G rollout, the ACX5448 features 48 10GbE aggregation
ports and four high-capacity 100GbE uplink ports, supporting full
Metro Ethernet and IP/MPLS VPN services in a space- and
cost-optimized platform. The ACX5448, working in conjunction with
the existing ACX500, ACX1000 and ACX2000 Universal Metro Routers,
brings operators robust service-level agreement control
capabilities combined with automation and zero-touch provisioning
to enable a seamless migration and simplified operations.
- ACX6360 Universal Metro Router: Built to
bridge between a secure packet-optical transport layer and IP/MPLS
networking, the ACX6360 gives service providers the ability to
collapse multiple layers into a single platform to simplify their
metro networks. The ACX6360’s unique design combines industry
compliant 256AES MACSec encryption for 10Gbps, 40Gbps, 100Gbps and
200Gbps CFP2-DCO coherent DWDM interfaces for mobile backhaul, DCI,
cable distributed access architectures and various other transport
applications. The ACX6360 provides the versatility to eliminate the
two-box solution typically found with packet optical and IP
deployed next to each other.
- PTX10002 Packet Transport Router: Scale-out is
a key design principle for many cloud providers as they distribute
service delivery closer to subscribers for a consistent and
high-quality user experience. The PTX10002 is purpose-built
for scale-out exchange and cloud architectures with high-capacity,
cost-optimized 100GbE interfaces to support growing network traffic
demands.
- Juniper’s Metro Fabric also incorporates the previously
announced programmable photonic layer, including the Juniper
Networks TCX1000 Series Programmable ROADM and proNX Optical
Director to bring high levels of flexibility, cost control and
multi-layer visibility to packet-optical transport.
Juniper Networks will be exhibiting its Metro
Fabric solution at OFC 2018 March 11-15 at the San Diego Convention
Center in booth 3139.
Supporting Quotes“In our
commitment to engineer simplicity into all layers of the network,
we are excited to deliver these new capabilities focused on
transforming how service providers modernize service delivery in
the metro. By combining adaptive and predictive software with new
and existing network infrastructure offerings, we are evolving
our solutions to enable service providers to deploy a metro network
capable of faster service creation and time-to-revenue for a new
generation of services and applications, including emerging 5G and
IoT services.” – Sally Bament, vice president, service
provider marketing, Juniper Networks
“It’s not just the sheer amount of traffic going
through the metro network that’s become a real challenge – it’s
also the type of traffic we’re starting to see in the metro.
Creating new services and keeping up with bandwidth needs requires
a new approach to metro networks as the status quo is simply
unsustainable. Simplicity is the key to our success so we are
excited to see Juniper – with whom we’ve partnered for years –
proactively reshaping how the metro serves the evolving needs of
our customers.”– Marco Arioli, Manager of Network Engineering,
Fastweb
Additional Resources
- Blog: 5 Ways Juniper Networks is Simplifying the
Metro
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Elliott Burr Juniper Networks (408)
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