Cost-effective, sustainable 400G core designed to deliver
superior user experiences at scale
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Juniper
Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks,
today announced that it has been selected by UPC Poland, Liberty
Global's largest revenue-generating operation in Central and
Eastern Europe and Poland's largest cable TV operator, to provide
a new, 400G-ready network to power UPC Poland's international core
infrastructure. UPC Poland's network provides broadband internet,
digital television, mobile and digital telephony (VoIP) services to
millions of consumers and a range of 1G/per second business voice
and data services. Juniper is uniquely positioned to deliver this
experience-first network that is required to meet the growing needs
of the market, expectations of UPC Poland's customers and
operational imperatives.
This network upgrade is in direct response to a number of key
business imperatives for UPC Poland. These include sustaining the
high quality of user experience across the 3.7 million households
and thousands of mobile customers it currently serves, while
enabling further growth, effective and flexible operational cost
controls and strict adherence to parent company Liberty Global's
sustainability undertakings and reporting.
News Highlights
- UPC Poland has seen exponential traffic growth on its network,
with an annual compound increase of 40 percent over the past
decade. This has led to a relentless focus on the experience it can
ultimately deliver to all users. UPC Poland has now enabled its
network to remain equipped to handle this growth without falling
behind on service, scale and quality for existing and new customers
alike.
- Sustainability and cost control were key tenets of UPC Poland's
vision for the new network. The requirement for potential
technology providers was that the chosen routing platform must be
able to scale to meet demand for the next 10 years, avoiding
expensive, wasteful rip-and-replace requirements.
- The Juniper Networks® PTX10008 Series Router, the latest
generation modular core router, was chosen because it can
meet these rigorous requirements with industry-leading 100GbE
and 400GbE port density with full flexibility of port speed
(multi-rate) in the smallest footprint possible, and with the
necessary headroom to grow alongside UPC Poland's expanding
business.
- Juniper's solution provides a better five-year TCO (Total Cost
of Ownership) than that offered by other technology providers in
the running, thanks to the PAYG (Pay As You Grow) licenses on the
chosen line cards. UPC Poland's projected capacity growth across
five years can be offered on a single PTX Series chassis.
- The first network node has already been successfully deployed
in Poznan, with another in Warsaw
to follow. A further three nodes will then be rolled out to create
a nationwide infrastructure to underpin UPC Poland's digital
transformation.
Supporting Quotes
"Liberty Global believes the connections we are building today
are helping to create a better tomorrow. This approach applies on
multiple levels in UPC Poland's new network, providing consistent,
superior digital user experiences for our millions of subscribers
while being mindful of space and power consumption in our data
centers and points of presence. The sustainability of the Juniper
PTX Series routing platform provides the best five-year Total Cost
of Ownership out of the vendors we evaluated, which has also
enabled us to really plan for the future and manage costs in direct
ratio to ongoing growth, so our choice of the stand-out
experience-first network provider was a strategic business decision
that was easy to make."
- Monika
Nowak-Toporowicz, Vice President & CTIO at UPC Poland
& UPC Slovakia
"Increasingly, service providers need to balance cost, capacity
and performance with sustainability factors in their networks. UPC
Poland's deployment demonstrates that less can be more with
intelligent solutions that combine physical and virtual innovations
to deliver the dynamic, responsible network of the future."
- Brendan Gibbs,
Vice-President Automated WAN Solutions, Juniper
Networks
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