Juniper Networks announced that its high-performance
switching and security infrastructure running on the Juniper Networks Junos
operating system has been selected by Shenhua Group, the world’s largest
coal-based energy company, for its new corporate data center.

 

Shenhua Group’s new data center is designed to
accommodate the latest virtualization and cloud computing technologies.

 

“In keeping with the nature of the Shenhua Group,
everything about this data center network is massive — except its cost and
environmental footprint. Flattening the network down to two layers reduces
capital costs and, by eliminating the aggregation layer, simplifies management
and greatly reduces latency,” said Eric Yu, vice president of Greater
China, Juniper Networks.

 

With Junos running as a single operating system across
the whole data center network, Shenhua Group will also benefit from a
consistent, highly-reliable and automated management environment,” Yu added.

 

Shenhua Group deploys Juniper Networks EX8200 Ethernet
Switches and SRX3600 Services Gateways to establish a dynamic, highly-reliable,
scalable and secure data center network to accommodate its expanding
application requirements.

 

The new Shenhua Group data center network has a two-layer
switching architecture with Juniper Networks EX8216 switches forming the core
and EX8208 switches deployed as end-of-row server access switches.

 

The two-layer switching design provides a high-density of
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10GbE wire-speed access ports and a migration path
to 100GbE in the core network.

 

Each Juniper Networks SRX3600 Services Gateway provides
up to 30Gbps of firewall throughput, helps the Shenhua Group to scale robust
security in tandem with network performance.

 

The Juniper Networks EX Series, SRX Series and Junos
operating system make the new data center network is ready for cloud computing.
The deployment of increasing numbers of virtualized servers enables the Shenhua
Group to upgrade physical server access ports to 10GbE, providing ample
capacity for multiple virtual LAN connections.

 

Recently, Juniper Networks announced that
the University of Auckland embarked on a strategy to simplify its data center
network to support the adoption of a cloud computing model.

 

 By Telecomlead.com Team
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