Juniper Networks Unveils 5G- and IoT-Ready Routing Platform to Unlock Service-Creation Opportunities
June 12 2018 - 2:45PM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced its new MX Series 5G
Universal Routing Platform along with several software innovations
to provide the
needed programmability, performance and flexibility for
rapid service deployment in the cloud economy now and for years to
come. Leveraging its vast experience with leading global cloud and
service providers, Juniper is unveiling its fifth generation of the
MX platform, which is now the industry’s only platform
to deliver near-infinite programmability, cost efficiency and
versatility with performance at scale. It combines the best of
software- and hardware-based networking to equip carrier,
cloud and enterprise customers for the evolving technological
and business demands of next-generation services delivery.
Service providers are at an inflection point where the costs of
operating a complex network that can host the new era of
resource-intensive applications like 5G and secure SD-WAN-based
managed services are overwhelming their ability to monetize them.
Also, with the additional influx of machine data coming from IoT
sensors, distributed telco edge and cloud computing, networks will
become overextended if they remain static, particularly as current
infrastructures have become too complex, expensive and vulnerable
to cyber threats for service providers to manage the distributed
scale and agility required for these new services.
A poll among Juniper service provider customers about the top
challenges in being able to offer next-generation services like
SD-WAN, IoT and 5G, found:
- More than half (55 percent) of respondents ranked the cost of
infrastructure build-out as the No. 1 or 2 challenge.
- Nearly 40 percent of respondents ranked the complexity of
orchestrating a distributed network at No. 1 or 2 challenge.
- More than half (55 percent) of respondents ranked investment
protection with data-plane programmability as the No. 1 or 2
desired feature set to solve those challenges.
To address these challenges and herald the next generation of
routing for the coming wave of 5G, IoT and business services,
Juniper designed its MX Series 5G Universal Routing platform with
new silicon for near-infinite feature programmability, as well as
open hardware-accelerated 5G Control and User Plane Separation
(CUPS) for unparalleled performance, scale and freedom of choice,
with additions to its universal chassis designed for operational
simplicity, improved economics and increased agility.
With Contrail’s comprehensive automation and rich software
management overlay capabilities, along with MX’s subscriber
management, SPRING, and enhanced real-time performance monitoring
telemetry data, the new capabilities enable customers to create and
scale any type of service across a secure automated distributed
cloud in a simplified way.
News highlights:
- Juniper Penta Silicon: At the heart of the new
MX Series 5G Platform is the new Juniper Penta Silicon, a
next-generation 16nm service-optimized packet forwarding engine
that delivers a 50 percent power efficiency gain (0.5 watts per
gigabit) over the existing Junos Trio chipset, which leads to a 3x
bandwidth increase for the MX960, MX480 and MX240. Juniper Penta
enables end to end secure connectivity at scale with native support
of both MACsec and an IPsec crypto engine – an industry-first –
that can originate and terminate thousands of IPsec sessions
without sacrificing performance. Additionally, Juniper Penta
supports flexible native Ethernet support (FlexE). Juniper Penta
silicon family will power the new MX Series 5G Platform for
years to come by exponentially increasing performance, power
efficiency and maintaining industry-leading hardware
programmability that can address future innovative protocols.
- MX 5G Control User-Plane Separation (CUPS) Hardware
Acceleration: As service providers prepare for 5G
deployments, the 3GPP CUPS standard allows customers to separate
the evolved packet core user plane (GTP-U) and control plane
(GTP-C) with a standardized Sx interface to help service providers
scale each independently as needed for added flexibility and
investment protection. The MX Series 5G platform is the first
networking platform to support a standard-based hardware
accelerated 5G user-plane in both existing and future MX routers to
enable converged services (wireless and wireline) on the same
platform while also allowing integration with third-party 5G
control planes. Juniper expects this will lower total cost of
ownership by as much as three to four times over software-based
user plane implementations for MXs deployed in the field.
- MX10008 and MX10016 Universal Chassis:
Continuing service-scale innovation to usher in the next era of
cloud, enterprise and carrier networking, the previously announced
PTX and QFX Universal Chassis gains two new MX variants with
today’s announcement: MX10008 and MX10016. Juniper’s Universal
Chassis family reduces inventory management complexity by 80
percent and extends use-case versatility for operators with a
revolutionary single-chassis design. The 13-RU MX10008 and 21-RU
MX10016 Universal Chassis bring industry-leading and space-saving
scale for edge routers at 19.2Tbps and 38.4Tbps, respectively.
These new additions to Juniper’s Universal Chassis family improve
per-slot economics for service scale at ~0.6 watts per gigabit,
enabling customers to do more with less while simplifying network
design and reducing opex. A variety of line cards and software are
available to satisfy specific networking use-cases across the data
center, enterprise and WAN.
The
MX10008 and MX100016 will be available during the second half of
2018. Juniper Penta Silicon-powered line cards for the MX960, MX480
and MX240 will be available in Q1 2019. New CUPS support will be
available in the first half of 2019.
Supporting
Quotes:“Cloud is eating the world, 5G is ramping up, IoT
is presenting a host of new challenges and security teams simply
can’t keep up with the sheer volume of cyber attacks on today’s
network. One thing service providers should not have to worry about
among all this is the unknown of what lies ahead. That’s why
we’ve continued innovating our flagship MX platform to deliver more
speed, flexibility, programmability and security capabilities,
giving our customers the peace of mind they need as a variety of
demands continue to put pressure on the network. We are building on
our heritage of eliminating the biggest barriers to routing that
have emerged over the past decade and providing a platform that can
grow whichever way the world does. Our commitment to removing
complexity from routing has made it possible for our customers to
connect in ways that have changed the world.”
- Manoj Leelanivas, Executive Vice President and Chief
Product Officer, Juniper Networks
“The rise of next-generation wireless and wireline services is
having a profound impact on the underlying networks needed to make
them a reality. We’ve been a longtime partner with Juniper Networks
since the first MX more than a decade ago and are excited to see
the unveiling of its next generation MX
platform.”
- Mike Altland, Director, Network Infrastructure Planning,
Verizon
“As a major service provider looking at the future of how we
connect our customers with evolving use cases, it’s important to
have a routing platform underpinning it all
that’s flexible enough to accommodate the
unpredictability of the industry right now. 5G, IoT and SD-WAN all
present great opportunities for us to create new revenue-generating
services but they can also bring many infrastructure
challenges. We’ve been longtime MX users and are excited to see
that the new MX 5G platform leverages new silicon
with programmability and integrated security, and
supports control user-plane separation to provide greater
flexibility for certainty in an uncertain networking
environment.”
- David Roy, IP/MPLS NOC engineer, Orange
“Affirmed Networks is committed to providing operators with
flexible deployment options as service providers continue to
embrace virtualized architectures. Telco operators will be able to
deliver higher performance customized 5G, IoT and business services
that cater to the unique requirements of different end-user
applications, with freedom of choice through open standards-based
solutions from Affirmed Networks and Juniper.”
- Amit Tiwari, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Systems
Engineering, Affirmed Networks
“While the industry is gradually transitioning to cloud-based
deployments of network functions and services, high-performance
routing hardware and custom silicon continue to be critical
elements to address network services at scale. With the
announcement of the Juniper Penta Silicon, Juniper continues to
advance its routing silicon and platforms in order to ensure
network operators can support existing services and applications
more efficiently today, and be well prepared for the future.”
- Heidi Adams, Senior Research Director, IP & Optical
Networks at IHS Markit
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Networking Innovation Built to Contend with the
Unknowns
- Blog: Safeguarding against the unknown: a Q&A with DQE
Communications network and security engineer Steve Puluka
- Solution Page: Juniper Networks MX10000 Universal Chassis
- Solution Page: Juniper Networks Routing Innovations
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