Juniper Networks, the
industry leader in network innovation, today introduced a virtualized version
of its flagship MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routing platform to deliver the
industry's first full-featured, carrier-grade virtualized router. The Juniper
Networks vMX 3D Universal Edge Router,
which operates as software on x86 servers, gives service providers and
enterprises the ability to seamlessly leverage the benefits of both virtual and
physical networking so they can rapidly deliver services and cost-effectively
keep ahead of customer demand. Juniper also today unveiled a new set of
capabilities designed to help customers build High-IQ networks that leverage
the benefits of virtualization and automation.
It
is estimated that there will be 50 billion networked devices worldwide by
2020(1). Service providers are pushing connectivity beyond simple access to
fuel economies and deliver more personalized and life-enhancing services. As
the appetite and reliance on customized services grow, service providers are
looking for ways to address this need while staying profitable and capitalizing
on revenue growth opportunities. This requires service providers to adopt a
more agile business approach, one that allows them to develop, scale up as well
as scale down new services at the pace of business, while also maintaining a
high-performance infrastructure to keep up with increasing traffic volumes.
Likewise,
enterprises are also looking for ways to increase business agility, as seen by
the adoption and deployment of cloud services and private clouds. As
enterprises look to the cloud to drive agility and efficiency, having a network
that is as flexible and dynamic as the cloud is critical. As a fully functional
virtual router, the vMX brings cloud-like agility to the network, allowing
businesses to quickly roll out new applications, resources and initiatives to
support internal and external clients.
By
virtualizing the company's flagship routing platform -- first introduced in 2006
and today powers most of the world's top 100 service providers -- Juniper
brings the feature-set and proven history of performance and reliability of the
MX to the cloud. The software-driven technology delivers the agility to scale
up and scale out as quickly as customer business needs dictate. Customers can
combine the vMX with Juniper's complete physical router portfolio delivering
the tools service providers and enterprises need to maintain a common
operations environment for both virtual and physical routers, while matching
network investment with revenue growth.
With
the vMX, carrier-grade routing can be deployed in the time it takes to spin up
a virtual machine, scaled elastically with virtual capacity, and if the need
arises, migrated to the high-performance physical MX Series platforms for
high-volume workloads. This provides customers with greater freedom to start
small, experiment with new services, grow rapidly and stay profitable
throughout the entire service lifecycle.
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