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Juniper Networks Expands High-Performance Network Infrastructure with New Family of Ethernet Switches
By Tim GrayHigh-performance networking company Juniper Networks (News - Alert) today introduced the EX-series of Ethernet
switches, setting new benchmarks for high-performance network infrastructure in the enterprise.
The switches running on Juniper's JUNOSTM software, a single-source network operating system, the EX-series will deliver the operational simplicity, carrier-class reliability, and infrastructure consolidation and integration that helps high-performance businesses accelerate the deployment of business-enabling applications and services across the network, according to the company.
The concept of the switches is to alleviate the cost, complexity and risk associated with legacy switch infrastructures; the EX-series switches advance the economics of networking.
IT organizations are under continuous pressure to meet demanding and changing application and service requirements that enable innovation. CIOs are being driven to provide ubiquitous access to strategic assets and business processes across the customer value chain, invest in advanced applications and services that provide the business agility to attract and grow relationships, and improve security measures to protect assets shared across the network.
The EX-series switches address this dilemma, enabling high-performance businesses to deploy a high-performance network infrastructure based on three key tenets – operational simplicity, carrier-class reliability, and integration and consolidation – to enable ubiquitous access to strategic assets, reduce network downtime and enhance overall security to shared assets across the extended enterprise. Juniper's EX-series switches are expected to help businesses advance the economics of networking by reducing capital and operational expenses, freeing IT budget resources that can be invested in innovative technologies and services that improve operational efficiency and add to the bottom line.
Juniper's EX-series switches, high-performance businesses are designed to will to deploy a cost-effective family of switches that deliver the High Availability (HA), unified communications, integrated security and operational excellence required today, with the ability to support the requirements of tomorrow. The EX-series switches are right-sized for campus, data center and remote office environments and feature many of the same carrier-class hardware and software architectures found in Juniper's core routers that were purpose-built to support the convergence of data, voice, and video onto a single always-on network.
One recent convert, Frank Ziegler, vice president of communications at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, said: "As our business has evolved from a focus on regional, floor-based trading to a national electronic exchange that removes virtually all human interaction, the scale of our infrastructure has grown by orders of magnitude, and the speed with which we can deliver information and execute orders is the number one requirement for our participants.
Legacy enterprise switch infrastructures are often inundated by multiple, inconsistent versions of network operating systems, resulting in unpredictable performance as new features are enabled on the network. By leveraging the modular JUNOS software, EX-series switches utilize a single-source operating system that offers a uniform set of features, consistent implementation, and universal configuration and management tools. Running a single-source operating system with unified management across a high-performance network infrastructure enables faster innovation by providing network administrators with the confidence to quickly turn on new features without compromising network performance and stability. A common operating system across the enterprise network infrastructure can further reduce training, maintenance and management costs, which translates into lower TCO.
"Juniper's high-performance network infrastructure enables PHLX to be one of the fastest and most reliable Reg NMS-compliant electronic trading venues in the world. The addition of the new EX-series Ethernet switches will help us expand our fast, reliable and secure network and continue to meet the evolving performance needs of our users," said Ziegler.
Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Tim Gray’s columnist page.
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