Brookhaven selects Juniper Networks to build world class science DMZ

BANGALORE, INDIA: Juniper Networks announced that Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has upgraded its network core with the Juniper Networks MX2000 Series 3D Universal Edge Routers.

Enhancing its backbone routing infrastructure with the MX Series will help the Lab fully leverage its high-performance computing capabilities to advance the study of nuclear and particle physics, support photon sciences and nano-materials research, and enable cross-disciplinary research to understand the relationship between climate change, sustainable energy and Earth's ecosystems.

Implementing a Science DMZ, a scalable network design model for optimizing scientific data transfers, near the laboratory's local network perimeter will help optimize equipment, configuration and security policies for high-performance scientific applications.

With support for hundreds of 10GbE interfaces and dozens of 100GbE interfaces, the MX2000 Series router will help enable BNL's network to carry extremely large data flows efficiently, as many flows on BNL's network exceed 100 GB.

This new capability will be crucial for BNL as it provides computing services for the experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL, the U.S. based collaborators in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the collaborators in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project.

George F. Holland, VP of federal strategy and business development, Juniper Networks, said: "Juniper and Brookhaven teamed to construct and deliver a world class Science DMZ that provides agile and reliable access to backbone networks with a 100GB on-ramp. Both the partnership and the platform are models for future progress."