Juniper Networks Simplifies Distributed Mobile Cloud Solution with Affirmed Networks and Netronome
February 22 2018 - 04:45AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced it has expanded its
partnership with Affirmed Networks and Netronome to give mobile
providers a simple-to-manage, high-performing distributed mobile
cloud solution for rapid deployment of IoT and 5G services.
Mobile providers are looking to disaggregate the control and
user planes within their networks through Affirmed Networks’ 5G
virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) that provides Control and
User Plane Separation (CUPS) to create highly distributed mobile
clouds that achieve IoT- and 5G-friendly flexibility, scale,
performance and low latency. While distributed clouds provide
network operators with several benefits in terms of cost-savings,
flexibility and increased service agility, operational complexity
can also occur as compute clusters and data centers are so widely
dispersed. As such, integrating Juniper’s recently updated Contrail
Provider Cloud provides a simple software-defined and intent-driven
solution for service providers to more effectively manage
distributed, virtualized architectures with greater agility.
Additionally, Agilio SmartNICs from Netronome increase the
performance of server-based virtual networking functions to bring
additional high-performance service delivery.
With this joint solution, mobile providers will be able to
automate the provisioning of new low-latency services and
applications, such as self-driving cars, smart cities or industrial
IoT, much closer to end-users, greatly simplifying service
delivery. Additionally, the distributed vEPC architecture provides
unparalleled performance, supporting over 150Gpbs throughput on a
single Xeon-based server, and unprecedented flexibility to deploy
user plane nodes closer to the radio access network while
centralizing the control plane for economy of scale. This joint
solution will dramatically improve performance and reduce delay
while also simplifying and enabling greater agility in service
delivery.
Juniper will showcase this joint solution with Affirmed Networks
and Netronome at Mobile World Congress – Hall 2 Stand 2I60, Hall 2
Stand 2J61. The joint solution is expected to be available in the
second half of 2018.
The solution includes the following
components:
- Juniper’s Contrail Provider Cloud: Makes deploying the telco
cloud far easier by simplifying the underlying Linux distribution
with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
seamlessly gleaning network insight with AppFormix, clearing the
traditionally difficult task of validating VNFs by pre-qualifying,
and adding end-to-end support services to smooth implementation.
Mobile operators can use this integrated solution to easily
navigate the complexities of cloud deployments and operations with
improved performance, scale and service level agreements.
- Affirmed Networks Mobile Cloud: Delivers a fully virtualized 5G
Mobile Packet Core solution, natively supporting a CUPS
architecture with distributed control and user plane. The solution
offers advanced capabilities including network slicing, integrated
virtual probe and analytics, a rich set of GiLAN services,
multi-access support with WiFi (ePDG and TWAG) and service
automation enabling operators to create customized services/slices,
bringing these services to market faster and at a much lower
cost.
- Agilio SmartNIC Platform from Netronome: Agilio CX 10GbE, 25GbE
and 40GbE SmartNIC platforms fully and transparently offload
virtual switch and router data path processing for networking
functions, such as overlays, security, load balancing and
telemetry. This enables compute servers used for server-based
networking and cloud computing to save critical CPU cores for
application processing while delivering significantly higher
performance. The Agilio CX platform features standard low-profile
PCIe SmartNICs and software that is designed for general-purpose
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rack servers, providing needed
operating system, power and form factor requirements.
Supporting quotes:
“The evolution of connected IoT services and ultra-fast 5G
networks requires that the underlying infrastructure evolve in ways
that yield low latency and flexibility to scale where needed – all
while being simple to deploy and manage. By integrating Affirmed
Networks’ CUPS with Juniper’s Contrail Provider Cloud and
Netronome’s SmartNICs, we’re evolving our solutions to enable
service providers to truly realize a distributed mobile cloud
capable of faster service creation and time to revenue for the next
generation of services and applications.”– Sally Bament, vice
president, service provider marketing, Juniper Networks
“5G represents a significant opportunity for service providers
to deliver customized services tailored to the needs of specific
enterprises and vertical markets. To capitalize on this major shift
in delivery and revenue models, however, they require a flexible,
high-performance solution capable of being deployed in an automated
manner. By delivering a pre-tested and configured industry leading
solution, together we are making it uniquely possible for operators
to increase service agility and materially decrease time to
revenue.”-- Amit Tiwari, vice president, strategic alliances and
systems engineering, Affirmed Networks
“5G and NFV infrastructures will evolve rapidly to meet the
insatiable bandwidth and latency demands from new and innovative
data services and applications. The Agilio SmartNIC Platform from
Netronome, tightly and seamlessly integrated with Juniper’s
Contrail Provider Cloud and Affirmed Mobile Cloud solutions, bring
scale, latency and performance efficiencies to both the core data
center and edge applications, enabling operators to deliver new
services with significantly higher quality of experience.”-- Sujal
Das, chief marketing and strategy officer, Netronome
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