Juniper Networks Infusing 400GbE to its Wide-Area Network, Data Center and Enterprise Portfolio

Networking leader commits to infusing 400GbE across all new products starting in the second half of 2018

Juniper Networks,  announced abroad 400GbE refresh to its wide-area network, data center and enterprise portfolio with leading routing and switching densities. The new technology will help service provider, cloud and enterprise customers re-calibrate network economics as they transition to 400GbE to lower cost-per-bit while keeping up with increasing bandwidth demands from emerging 5G, augmented and virtual reality,cloud, and 4K video production and distribution.

As service providers, cloud operators and enterprises all face the challenge of keeping up with exponentially growing traffic, Juniper continues to challenge the existing economics of networking across its major product lines to meet the needs of a variety of key customer use cases. With these innovations, Juniper is giving its customers unprecedented capacity while also providing the flexibility and programmability needed to continuously adapt to future trends.

Highlights:

  • IP Transport

Juniper is executing its scale-out 400GbE WAN strategy with the unveiling of the new 3-RU PTX10003Packet Transport Router for next-generation backbone, peering and datacenter interconnect applications ready to deploy high density 100GbE and 400GbE.

  • Data Center

Juniper is enhancing its QFX series of data center switches with 400GbE technology to enable the next-generation of IP Fabric with investment protection as customers increase the capacity of their data centers to meet emerging high-performance applications and as server connectivity transitions to 50GbE and 100GbE uplinks. Together with Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, the QFX makes automating multiple independent cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass seamless.

  • WAN Services

The recently announced MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform, powered by Juniper’s new Penta Silicon,provides customers with 400GbE interfaces and industry-first support of native MACsec and IPsec encryption that can originate and terminate thousands of IPsec sessions without sacrificing performance. Juniper Penta Silicon-powered 400GbE MPC10E line cards for the MX960, MX480 and MX240 are expected to be available in the first half of 2019