Company Shatters Performance Bar with Cost-Effective and Energy
Efficient Converged Supercore Architecture That Combines New Silicon,
Upgraded System Capacity and New Software-Defined Networking Capabilities
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Juniper
Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the leader in network innovation, today at its
2015 Innovation Showcase introduced its enhanced Converged
Supercore®, which includes new custom silicon, updates to the
Juniper Networks® PTX
Series router and expanded software-defined networking (SDN)
capabilities. These new innovations will empower service providers to
better connect a world amid explosive and unpredictable bandwidth
demands. By combining the industry’s most advanced silicon with
increased scale and SDN programmability, Juniper will deliver the most
powerful and optimized core routing platform available – all in the
industry’s most cost-effective and compact form factor.
Nearly half of the world’s population is connected to the Internet – a
figure that will only continue to grow as more countries begin expanding
mobile and fixed-line networks. Unfortunately, today’s methods of coping
with this data deluge can prove costly and cumbersome. With today’s
announcement, Juniper is building on its heritage of revolutionizing
routing fundamentals and economics by setting new records for
high-performance and traffic optimization by combining software, silicon
and systems advancements to usher in the next generation of
communications networks.
Silicon Advancements
Juniper’s new ExpressPlus custom silicon sits at the heart of the
Converged Supercore to offer full IP routing and MPLS. The new
ExpressPlus silicon will deliver four times the performance and three
times the efficiency gains over Juniper’s previous-generation Express
chipset.
Juniper’s new chip is the world’s most advanced silicon, capable of
performing more than 1.5 billion filtered operations per second and
scaling up to 500 Gbps (1 Tbps half-duplex). The 28 nanometer chip can
drive 5x100G interfaces and leverages 3D memory architecture, reducing
its physical footprint by 20 times compared with previous solutions,
which optimizes power consumption and space requirements.
Juniper stays true to its heritage of continually pushing the boundaries
of what a powerful network foundation can do for companies of all sizes.
The ExpressPlus chip is a testament to Juniper’s focus on delivering,
through its people and expertise, the industry’s most powerful, highest
performing networking solutions.
System Advancements
New line cards for Juniper’s PTX Series core routers bring unprecedented
levels of scale, capabilities and cost control to the network. Juniper’s
PTX routers, featuring the new ExpressPlus silicon, combine full IP and
MPLS functionality, transport integration and SDN programmability for
uncompromised performance and ease of deployment.
With the PTX5000,
Juniper can now deliver 3 Tbps per slot (30x100GE interfaces) for a
total capacity of 24 Tbps (48 Tbps half-duplex), providing three times
the competition’s throughput with industry-leading energy efficiency
(1/2 watt per gigabit). Juniper Networks® PTX3000,
designed specifically for space-constrained environments, can scale up
to 8 Tbps or (16 Tbps half-duplex) in a form factor 91 percent smaller
than its nearest competitor.
With this added level of performance, the PTX5000 could, for example,
simultaneously stream HD video to every single person in Rio de Janeiro
– and do so on the same amount of power it takes to drive an electric
vehicle 35 miles.
SDN Advancements
Juniper also announced today it has extended the capabilities of its NorthStar
Controller. These enhancements will provide visibility and control
into additional layers of the network and fully support and handle
dynamic traffic, such as that driven by mobile and cloud applications.
As the industry’s only traffic-engineering controller capable of
automatically controlling and programming multiple network layers, the
NorthStar Controller will enable service providers to increase
utilization by dynamically adjusting to changing network conditions in
real-time and at the click of a button.
For many years, the network core was considered too manual, too rigid
and too complex to adjust. This limited the ability to change the core
to adjust to new services for fear of crippling the entire network. With
today’s announcement, Juniper is bringing unprecedented levels of scale,
automation and programmability to transform the network core into an
agile platform to unleash new levels of efficiency for flexible service
creation.
Additional 2015 Innovation Showcase News Highlights
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Juniper today introduced the QFX10000,
a new line of spine switches that will offer unprecedented scale,
automation and performance to all types of data center and cloud
deployments. Additionally, Juniper announced Junos® Fusion for data
centers, which will enable customers to manage their entire data
center as a single network to ensure simpler network designs and
long-term investment protection.
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Juniper also announced the availability of Express
Path, an optimization capability for the SRX5000
Series Services Gateways that will dramatically boost throughput,
reduce latency and improve session scalability for enterprises and
service providers. This new technology enables the SRX
firewall to keep pace with the massive volumes of data traffic on
high-performance networks.
Supporting Quotes
“TDC required a next-generation packet optimized core transport solution
that would give us not only the capacity needed to meet our exploding
traffic demands but do so in a cost effective, energy efficient manner.
We chose Juniper’s PTX5000 over the competition because it provides not
only unmatched scalability and efficiency but also delivers tight
packet-optical integration allowing us to gain greater insight and
efficiencies in our network management and operations. With these
features in place, we know that we can adapt to changes easily and offer
new revenue-generating services to our customers.”
- Steen Nielsen, vice president of product management and technology
for Broadband, TDC
"Our customers are under tremendous pressure to deliver more bandwidth
efficiently. The Converged Supercore Architecture provides the highest
packet performance, and lowest TCO and power consumption that our
customers demand to remain competitive in the marketplace. The
announcement made today will help our service provider customers meet
the ever increasing demands on their network in a scalable, cost
efficient way."
- Mark Plato, CEO, telent Technology Services, Ltd.
“With the enhancements to the Converged Supercore, Juniper Networks is
positioning itself as a thought leader in the service provider routing
space, not only by addressing higher capacity requirements, but also by
focusing on automation and SDN programmability in order to make service
providers' networks more agile and risk adverse. The PTX and MX Series
together address key service router requirements in the edge and transit
router requirements in the core and metro, which should help maximize
cost optimization and service delivery.”
- Dr. Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst, ACG Research
“Today, we build on the Converged Supercore architecture we announced in
2011 with the addition of new silicon, systems and software designed
specifically to help our customers achieve unparalleled levels of scale
in our platforms and a level of performance, automation and optimization
never before seen in the industry with NorthStar SDN control. This
holistic approach to networking gives our customers the power to
innovate and bring new concepts to life through connecting ideas to
people and people to solutions.”
- Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and general manager,
Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks
Additional Resources
About Juniper Networks in Routing
Juniper Networks was born from a willingness to challenge conventional
thinking. Our routing solutions are the result of some of the industry’s
most groundbreaking innovations across every aspect of networking
technology: in silicon, systems and software. They continue to be the
industry benchmark for performance, scale and rapid services deployment,
giving customers a competitive advantage as they set out to build the
best networks on the planet.
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) delivers innovation across routing,
switching and security. From the network core down to consumer devices,
Juniper Networks' innovations in software, silicon and systems transform
the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can
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Networks (www.juniper.net)
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