Juniper comes with Intelligent Services Edge

NEW DELHI,INDIA: Juniper Networks, Inc., a player in high-performance networking, today announced the Intelligent Services Edge, a fully integrated portfolio of new hardware and software features that address business challenges for customers building and expanding high-performance networks.

Leveraging the architectural integrity of JUNOS software and Juniper’s M- and MX-series platforms, the Intelligent Services Edge will enable providers to deliver a comprehensive range of services over a single operating system with maximum scale, said a press release.

The advancements facilitate intelligent convergence at the edge, which drives network monetization by speeding deployment of new services and reducing operational costs and complexity. JUNOS software is the network operating system fueling Juniper’s leadership in high-performance networking.

With today’s announcement, Juniper will further enhance JUNOS to address a wide range of edge services, establishing the Intelligent Services Edge as one of the industry’s most versatile service delivery portfolios, it added.

These integrated features will simplify the network edge for service providers by reducing the number of network elements and operating systems within the network. Additionally, by decreasing the need for service-specific appliances, the Intelligent Services Edge can reduce power, space and cooling requirements.

“The dynamic evolution of interactive and multimedia web applications is driving further broadband deployments, both in fixed networks as well as mobile,” said Ed Chang, head of IP Connectivity Business Line, Nokia Siemens Networks.

“We are confident that Juniper’s Intelligence Service Edge portfolio will enable our service provider customers to deliver new, exciting and profitable services to consumers with reduced operational expenditure.” Juniper is also delivering a range of new hardware for its M- and MX-series portfolio, the release said.

For the MX-series Ethernet Services Routers, it is introducing the MultiServices DPC, a high performance, purpose-built processing engine that will enable customers to run the new JUNOS services without impacting the routers’ forwarding performance.

The MX-series will also be enhanced with the addition of a new Flexible PIC Concentrator that provides packet over SONET capabilities, leveraging the same OC-48 and OC-192 Physical Interface Cards (PICs) used for M- and T-series platforms.

Juniper will also enhance the scale and performance of its M-series multiservice routers by extending next generation packet processing hardware to its M7i and M10i systems.