Juniper goals at simplifying campus material deployment

Juniper Networks is seeking to ease difficult campus networking by mechanically configuring and serving to handle Ethernet VPN-Digital Extensible XLAN (EVPN/VXLAN) deployments.

Juniper additionally expanded its EX household of switches aimed toward campus distribution deployments and low-density data-center top-of-rack environments, in line with Jeff Aaron, vice chairman of enterprise advertising and marketing for Juniper.

Juniper has rolled out a course of known as campus material workflow, below its subscription-based Wired Assurance program. Campus material workflow will help prospects deploy frequent standards-based campus materials, comparable to EVPN multihoming, EVPN core/distribution and IP Clos for VLAN extensions with a straightforward course of that lets them decide their desired topology, assign gadgets/roles and push configurations, Aaron stated.

Wired Assurance faucets into Juniper’s community working system, Junos OS, and gathers telemetry information to measure community efficiency for linked endpoints, together with IoT gadgets, the corporate stated. It additionally options anomaly detection to alert when there’s a deviation in swap efficiency from baseline metrics, usually earlier than customers are conscious. It really works together with Juniper’s Mist ML/AI platform that helps deploy, provision, and handle Juniper EX Sequence Switches.

Mist program has supported fabric-management capabilities prior to now however that has now been prolonged to the Wired Assurance program.

“Collectively the campus material workflow and Mist could make it a lot easier to configure and handle the community, then, as soon as it’s deployed, collect insights about what apps are operating and what gadgets are accessing them,” stated Christian Gilby, senior director or product advertising and marketing with Juniper. As well as, it will probably establish and proper a wide selection of switching issues, comparable to lacking VLANs, port flaps, and unhealthy cables, Gilby stated.

“The thought is to assist prospects cut back the time and value of designing, provisioning, and deploying standards-based networks comparable to EVPN whereas bettering connectivity and safety,” Gilby stated.

Juniper additionally introduced providers known as Juniper Mist Wired Assurance Deployment Service and Juniper Mist Campus Deployment Service that may give entry to Juniper specialists, automation instruments, and best-practice design methodologies to assist enhance workflows and cut back the burden on IT groups, Aaron stated.

New EX distribution swap

On the {hardware} aspect, Juniper has expanded its EX swap portfolio with the 1RU EX4400-24X Distribution Swap. The 24x10GbE port, 1080Gbps capability EX4400 may be deployed as a distribution swap in massive campuses or a core swap in small or medium campus networks. It options zero-touch provisioning and may be mechanically configured and managed through Mist Wired Assurance.

Juniper’s Digital Chassis expertise permits configuring and managing as much as 10 of the switches as a single logical system, in line with Aaron.