Company’s Flagship Routing Platform Deployed in 92 Percent of Top
Global Service Providers and More than Half of Top 10 Enterprises
Juniper
Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network
innovation, today announced improvements in the performance, density and
operational efficiency of its SDN-ready Juniper Networks MX
Series 3D Universal Edge Routing portfolio with new hardware and
software features that triple throughput and enable network
automation. With these capabilities, the industry’s highest
performing edge router delivers
the scale and automation that service providers and cloud operators
require to bolster the economics of next-generation networks.
Consumer and business appetite for HD video, cloud services and
always-on collaboration tools have forced network operators to add
unprecedented levels of capacity to their infrastructure, all while
trying to remain profitable. At the same time, large enterprises are
building increasingly sophisticated networks to enable the deployment of
hybrid clouds and flexible wide-area networks, creating a situation
where IT is a competitive advantage. In order to remain relevant in
today’s extremely competitive marketplace, customers intimately
understand that throwing more terabits at the problem alone will not
solve things; but rather, they must also use new tools that automate
manual, innovation-stifling tasks and allow for further programmability
within the network to improve operations and service velocity.
Today’s announcement marks an important milestone in the nine-year
evolution of the MX Series, which has pioneered many routing innovations
since its inception in 2006, including the introduction of the
industry’s highest capacity edge router with the MX2020 in 2012 and the
first full-featured, carrier-grade virtual router with the vMX in 2014.
To date, Juniper Networks® has sold an MX Series router every
hour since the series was unveiled in 2006. More than 90 percent of the
50 largest telecom companies today use MX Series routers in their
networks, and with today’s new hardware and software upgrades, we
believe these companies will continue to meet their customers’ demands
for years to come.
The MX Series, powered by programmable Trio silicon and the Juniper
Networks Junos software, gives customers investment protection and
offers a network application development platform that seamlessly
integrates with evolving SDN and NFV solutions.
News Highlights
Juniper Networks continues to set a new bar for performance, capacity
and automation with the following advancements for the MX Series:
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New MX Series line cards: The new MPC7, MPC8 and MPC9 line
cards, all powered by programmable Trio silicon, provide high-density
network connectivity and unmatched bandwidth, subscriber and services
scale. The 400 GbE-ready MPC9 provides an industry-leading 1.6 Tbps of
throughput, enabling a single MX2020 to scale to 32 Tbps of
throughput, enough to stream more than 2 million 4K videos
simultaneously. Additionally, the new MPC7 doubles the performance and
density of all currently installed MX240, MX480 and MX960 routers,
providing customers with unprecedented investment protection.
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Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET), which uses open application
programming interfaces (APIs), yields new automation capabilities in
the carrier-class Junos software. JET provides a programmatic
interface to develop highly customized third-party applications, such
as provisioning and self-healing capabilities. These applications can
reside on or off the MX2010 or MX2020 to seamlessly interact with the
network layer. Not limited to the MX Series, JET is available on all
Juniper platforms that run Junos software. In addition, JET includes
support for OpenConfig, a standardized,
vendor-independent configuration and management capability with
customizable YANG data models for flexible vendor integration.
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Junos Telemetry Interface: The industry’s first high-frequency
telemetry export function on a networking platform to optimize network
performance and fault management. Junos Telemetry Interface
facilitates SDN/NFV migrations by synchronizing operational states to
external controllers. Advanced analytics
and real-time data correlation to deliver real-time reporting at scale
are made possible through advanced technologies from companies like SevOne,
a leading global provider of digital infrastructure management
solutions.
MPC7, MPC8 and MPC9 line cards, Juniper Extension Toolkit with
OpenConfig support and Junos Telemetry Interface are expected to be
available in 1H 2016.
Supporting Quotes
“Customers rely on Axians for innovative network solutions to improve
their business and gain a competitive advantage. To achieve this, we
advocate the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers from Juniper Networks,
which we successfully deploy in our customers’ networks. The reason why
the MX Series has proven so popular is largely due to the continuous
technology improvements made in terms of scale, performance and
reliability. This provides the ideal choice for us to support the
application of innovative services being created and deployed within our
customers’ networks.”
-David Millar, services director at Axians
“As trusted network experts dedicated to providing service provider
customers with infrastructure solutions that deliver maximum business
value, the MX Series has consistently remained a top tool in our arsenal
throughout the years. Given that the focus of enfoPoint’s business is
designing, implementing and maintaining high-availability
infrastructures for mission-critical networks, there is literally no
room for error. The MX's performance, capacity and advanced feature set
allow us to architect networks that deliver reliable performance year
after year. In the many years we’ve had it in our product portfolio,
I’ve never had to apologize for selling an MX.”
-Tom Spear,
chief executive officer at enfoPoint
“As a long-term customer of Juniper security and switching products, we
closely follow the continuous innovation demonstrated by the MX series
routers as a complement to our end-to-end network strategy. Through its
own interoperability testing, Expedient validated that the platform can
deliver the features, performance and scalability required by the
demands of our network growth trajectory. Additionally, our vision of
converged network service automation is supported by the API
capabilities of the Junos Extension Toolkit, which will enable us to
meet the evolving expectations of our data center and cloud customers
for years to come.”
-Dan Pregman, director of Network Planning
and Architecture at Expedient
“The ability to deliver innovative high-quality services rapidly is an
advantage that differentiates us in our competitive marketplace. With
its service agility and advanced automation features, the MX Series has
helped us build tremendous momentum with our highly differentiated
strategy to expand cloud networking services to multinational clients,
to extend network connectivity to any location in the world and any
application in the cloud, and to deliver an outstanding client
experience by living our core values of simplicity, speed and agility.”
-Bob
Burris, senior vice president of Global Engineering and Operations at GTT
“We have used the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and Junos software
for many years, and the continuous stream of improvements to scale,
performance and reliability not only enable us to meet today’s
requirements, they will also allow us to efficiently meet increasing
customer demand for years to come, without disrupting our operations
environment.”
-Junichi Shimagami, Director and CTO at Internet
Initiative Japan Inc.
“In the last couple of years, the networking landscape has changed
dramatically and the ability to provision infrastructure and manage the
network effectively is made possible through software and automation.
Couple that with the ability to derive real-time analytics and data
insights from the network in order to make informed decisions that
impact the end user experience and the network becomes an extremely
powerful platform that can help drive business decision-making
processes. As a global managed data center service provider, the network
sits at the heart of our business and we need a combination of network
performance and intelligence that Juniper is able to provide. Today’s
advancements in MX performance and new Junos automation capabilities
speak directly to ServerCentral’s needs and we look forward to
continuing our long-standing relationship with Juniper.”
-Alex
Latzko, lead network engineer at ServerCentral
“As a leading broadband services company, our customers rely on us for
innovative services that improve the ways in which they live and work.
We use the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and Junos software to
maintain a reliable, high performance and scalable network
infrastructure with the agility to adapt at the speed of our business,
and are pleased with the continued evolution of the MX Series to meet
the increasing demands of digital transformation.”
-Ove Tøien,
manager of IP engineering at Telenor Norway
“Providing exceptional value to our customers means we must maintain a
cutting-edge network while keeping costs to a minimum. The MX Series
helps us achieve these goals while delivering the compelling services
our customers expect. The scale and service agility of the MX Series
helps us achieve these goals by consolidating services and
functions—such as edge and core routing—on a single platform. This
improves our capital and operational efficiency and results in real
savings we can pass along to customers.”
-Jide Akintola, head of
Network Engineering and Design at TMX Atrium
"We adopted the MX Series as our edge router years ago, and we are very
pleased that Juniper continues to evolve the platform in ways that meet
our current and emerging business and market requirements. The MX Series
enables us to deliver the innovative services our customers want at the
scale our business demands.”
- Nasrudin Abd Shukor, Director of
ICT at Universiti Malaysia Perlis
“When a client comes in asking for a solution that provides long-term
investment protection, I immediately think of Juniper’s MX Series. As a
national distributor of high quality network solutions for the telecom
industry, we work with a variety of clients from wireless providers to
government entities and for all of them, performance and future-proofed
capacity are paramount. Whether it be a new network roll-out or an
addition to an existing implementation, the MX Series provides our
clients with the best combination of performance and investment
protection to power their networks today and into tomorrow.”
-Jerry
Jones, field systems engineer at Walker and Associates
“We believe the current generation of high capacity core and edge
routers will be used for some time as the detailed steps of the SDN-NFV
transformation are defined by each service provider. Service providers
have already been deploying Juniper’s SDN-ready MX Series as physical
and virtual routers in live networks as they move to SDN- and NFV-based
networks, as also evidenced by Juniper’s No. 2 position in 3Q15
worldwide market share in service provider routing revenue.”
-Michael
Howard, senior research director at IHS Infonetics
“You know you’re onto something when you have a platform that has
continually outpaced Moore’s Law since the first MX shipped in 2006. As
Juniper’s flagship edge routing platform, the MX Series is the market
leader in feature availability, use case support, performance,
reliability, scale, and now, with the addition of advanced Junos
software features, we are extending our automation capabilities. In an
industry that’s constantly touting the ‘new,’ it’s important to remember
that customers are making significant technology investments with the
expectation that it will continue to deliver ROI for many years. With
the MX Series, we believe customers can invest with the confidence that
the platform will exceed requirements for future network demands.”
-Jonathan
Davidson, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper
Development and Innovation
Additional Resources
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) delivers innovation across routing,
switching and security. Juniper Networks’ innovations
in software, silicon and systems transform the experience and economics
of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a
number of assumptions, uncertainties and risks including, among other
things, statements concerning Juniper Networks' prospects, product
availability, future products and performance, cost savings, and other
benefits to customers. Actual results or events could differ materially
from those anticipated in those forward-looking statements as a result
of certain factors, including delays in scheduled product availability,
incompatibility of technologies, the company's failure to accurately
predict emerging technological trends, and other factors listed in
Juniper Networks’ most recent report on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed
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