Converged Supercore brings efficiency through flatter networks and SDN controls. Emerging traffic dynamics such as mobility, video, and cloud based services are changing the way service provider networks operate. With this transformation, service providers are required to make continuous capital and operational investments in their infrastructure, driving up their total cost of network ownership (TCO). Unable to accurately predict shifting traffic patterns and volumes, network operators are forced to over provision their systems to accommodate peak use periods. The associated costs eat away at the bottom line, resulting in an unsustainable model. To remain profitable, businesses need to transition to a more agile, intelligent and responsive infrastructure — one that leads to improved revenue streams by enabling and delivering new, customizable services. Juniper Networks™ can help solve these challenges with Juniper Networks PTX™ Series Packet Transport Routers and the Converged Supercore architecture. All of this is accomplished by leveraging open, standards based protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Netconf/YANG, and Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP).

The Juniper Networks PTX™ Series is an ultra efficient, transit optimized solution for supporting full—featured IP/MPLS. Combined with integrated optical transport, the Juniper Networks PTX™ Series is designed to achieve greater network traffic efficiencies that dramatically reduce network operating expenses (OpEx). Working with technology from optical transport partners such as BTI, ADVA, and Coriant, Juniper Networks PTX™ Series routers easily interoperate with traditional transport environments, preserving existing investments while ensuring continued, uninterrupted operations. The Juniper Networks Converged Supercore™ architecture gives service providers a network model that helps take the uncertainty and high costs out of core, peering, metro and converged IP and optical network planning and provisioning. This innovative architecture leverages the power of the industry’s highest performance IP/MPLS transit optimized router to lower your operational expenses. By providing shared knowledge about resources and topology, the Juniper Networks™ solution improves operator service creation and reduces troubleshooting time with end to end packet service provisioning and management across all layers.

Advanced Optical Without The Complexity

Simplify core architectures and service provisioning by partnering with leaders. Many of today’s core architectures are burdened with multiple complex networking layers, driving up CAPEX and OPEX, while increasing domain silos. In short, they stand in the way of profitability. To help solve this problem, Juniper is partnering with optical transport vendors ADVA and Coriant to simplify core architectures by enabling packet transport that easily plugs in to end to end service provisioning and performance/alarm management systems. For example, our PTX Series 100GbE coherent optical interfaces are now virtually integrated into ADVA’s and Coriant’s transport network management systems, delivering a plug and play solution for traditional transport environments. Extensible management interfaces such as NETCONF/YANG within the Juniper Networks Junos™ OS make the IP/MPLS packet layer fully transport aware of the optical topology, without any human intervention. The result is a proactive, automated, and highly efficient traffic rerouting infrastructure that lowers your network OPEX, while drawing new business value across previously siloed domains.

Network Growth

SDN brings control to unpredictable environments. Exploding growth and rapidly shifting traffic patterns wreak havoc with the network, making it nearly impossible for operators to manage or provision, let alone anticipate future needs. But the programmability of software defined networking (SDN) introduces a new level of network elasticity and flexibility that enables operators to maximize resources while shortening planning cycles. For example, Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ for carrier SDN can centralize traditionally distributed traffic engineering operations. This capability minimizes the need for emergency capacity planning while helping operators realize greater segment utilization, create predictable network survivability scenarios, and respond quickly to new service roll outs. As a homogeneous, customizable, and programmable traffic engineering platform with global network visibility, Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ ensures predictable network behavior across multiple layers. Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ gives carrier networks the ability to self optimize and automatically identify the best path through the network, in near real—time.

Features And Benefits

The Juniper Networks PTX1000™ delivers IP/MPLS packet performance in the industry’s only fixed configuration core router, for a total system capacity of 3 Tb in only 2 rack units. Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™—a software platform that provides elastic, online SDN programmability, analysis, and optimization. Juniper Networks PTX™ series—full featured IP/MPLS Juniper Networks Converged Supercore™ routers that optimize performance and deployability, providing critical core capabilities that help operators meet rapidly changing traffic patterns. Juniper Networks WANDL IP/MPLSView™—a multivendor, multiprotocol, and multilayer operations support system (OSS) traffic management and engineering solution for IP/MPLS networks. Shorten your planning cycles and improve elasticity. Today, many core architectures are statically designed, manually operated, and over—engineered with complex, service focused routers—a state that results in flat or declining profits. To get the revenue stream flowing again, organizations need a powerful, converged architecture that delivers the agility required to get the most from network resources.