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JUNIPER NETWORKS

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High-Performance Business Requirements

Today’s high-performance businesses demand a high-performance network infrastructure that provides fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications that drive business processes. Switches deployed in regional offices, campuses and data centers enable these business processes by connecting users to applications, delivering everything from traditional file services to telephony, messaging, presence, video conferencing and Web services.

To fill this critical role, network infrastructure switches must:

  • Be highly available to ensure uninterrupted, uncompromised delivery of business processes in the event of failures and outages
  • Support unified data, voice, messaging, presence and video communications on a single IP infrastructure
  • Integrate security functions traditionally implemented in appliances to defend against malicious, sophisticated attacks and optimize application response times
  • Deliver operational excellence by delivering consistency and simplicity across the infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership

Juniper Networks® offers such a solution—a new class of Ethernet switches for the enterprise, designed specifically to meet the demands of today’s high-performance businesses. The Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches are changing the game, delivering the next generation of switching technology for today’s—and tomorrow’s—networks.

With the EX Series, businesses can deploy a cost-effective family of switches that delivers the high availability (HA), unified communications, integrated security and operational excellence they need today, while providing a platform for supporting the requirements of tomorrow.

Welcome to the future of enterprise switching.

The Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches

The Juniper Networks EX3200, EX4200, and EX8200 Ethernet switches exhibit five key characteristics that, working together, deliver a true enterprise switching solution: carrier-class reliability, security risk management, network virtualization, application control, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).

  • Carrier-class Reliability:
    Nothing succeeds like success. That’s why the Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches leverage much of the same field-proven Juniper Networks technology—including high-performance application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), system architecture and Juniper Networks JUNOS® Software—that power the world’s largest service provider networks. The result is a robust, time-tested and highly reliable network infrastructure solution for high-performance enterprises.
  • Security Risk Management:
    The Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches are fully compatible with the Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC), delivering an extra layer of security by first authenticating users and performing virus checks, then enforcing precise, end-to-end security policies that determine who can access what network resources, as well as quality of service (QoS) policies to ensure delivery of business processes. Integrated anomaly-based threat detection provides additional protection by identifying and blocking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
  • Network Virtualization:
    The EX Series switches feature Juniper Networks Virtual Chassis technology, which enables up to 10 EX4200 switches to be interconnected and operate as a single system. With Virtual Chassis technology, users get the reliability, availability and high-port densities of traditional chassis-based systems in a cost-effective, compact form factor—the best of both worlds. The EX Series switches also support generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunneling for sending mirrored traffic from remote locations to monitoring devices in the network operations center for centralized troubleshooting and analysis, or to build segregated overlay networks without the challenges associated with Spanning Tree.
  • Application Control:
    Successfully managing a network requires knowing how it’s being used in order to optimize application delivery and maximize efficiency. Integrated high-performance ASICs on the chassis-based EX8200 line of Ethernet switches provide wire-speed forwarding for any and all packet sizes.

    To ensure application traffic is properly prioritized, the EX Series Ethernet Switches support a robust eight QoS queues per port—more than enough to establish separate queues for control plane, voice, video and multiple levels of data traffic, with room to converge other networks such as building automation and security cameras.
  • Lower TCO:
    A highly scalable pay-as-you-grow architecture, network designs with lower power consumption, space and associated cooling requirements, a common operating system, and unified management tools across the Juniper portfolio all combine to help reduce operational and capital expenses for EX Series Ethernet Switch customers.

    The high-performance, high-density platforms let users start small and grow incrementally, saving valuable space in crowded wiring closets and data centers while lowering recurring power and cooling costs. Leveraging a common version of the JUNOS Software across the switch families ensures consistency throughout the infrastructure and accelerates the learning curve. And unified management tools consolidate system monitoring and maintenance, saving time and money.

    Working together, these EX Series switch attributes advance the economics of networking by allowing businesses to spend less money and time on their network infrastructure—and more on innovative technologies that help them gain a competitive edge.