MWC 2014: Juniper Networks expands SDN solutions

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014, Juniper Networks today announced the expansion of its software-defined networking (SDN) portfolio.

The expanded SDN solutions are aimed at enabling telecom carriers to accelerate service creation and build networks that deliver a customized end-user experience.

Contrail technology, SDN portfolio, Junos Fusion software, NorthStar Controller, 1 TB line cards and enhanced SCG functions are the focus areas of today’s announcement.

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Together with its Contrail technology, Juniper’s solutions will assist telecoms to increase network utilization and deliver new, customized services to their customers in real-time.

Juniper Networks is expanding its SDN portfolio with new software and hardware to help service providers build high-IQ networks and cloud environments. These networks are secure, automated and scalable, enabling rapid service provisioning based on actionable intelligence.

The new SDN solutions from Juniper — which will help carriers address impending 5G demands — reduce complexity, enable networks to securely and intuitively adapt to user preferences in real-time and make existing hardware more efficient and versatile.

Juniper said Junos Fusion software, which can control thousands of independent network elements, will be available Q2 2014.

Junos Fusion software allows telecoms to reduce network complexity and operational costs by collapsing those underlying transport elements into a single point of control from the Juniper Networks MX Series or PTX Series routing platforms. Junos Fusion is fully interoperable with third-party solutions and is extensible to SDN control.

Its SDN portfolio Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller, a traffic-engineering controller, will be available in the second half of 2014.

NorthStar Controller will identify and program the optimal path within a multi-vendor network, based on operator-defined performance and cost requirements. This will allow service providers to increase utilization, create service-oriented network paths and dynamically adjust to changing network conditions. Telecoms can better support dynamic mobile and cloud traffic, avoid costly over provisioning, mitigate wasted Capex spend and reduce planning cycles of current static networks.

Juniper’s 1 TB line cards add further scale to the PTX Series router. Available in Q2 2014, the new line cards double the PTX router’s per-slot capacity to provide operators with more usable per-path bandwidth, yield greater network efficiency and reduce additional Capex and Opex.

With the new Junos Video Focus, Junos Subscriber Aware, Junos Application Aware and Junos Policy Control products available on the MX Series routers, operators can use the MX in the Gi-LAN as a Service Control Gateway (SCG) to custom-tailor service experiences. These SCG functions will be available in mid-2014.

Juniper Networks also introduced the CSE2000 Carrier Services Engine, a NEBS-compliant server platform, providing the ability to optimize service location based on performance and cost requirements.

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