Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Juniper Networks Delivers Industry’s First High-Performance Control Plane Scaling Platform

Juniper Networks, Inc. the provider in high-performance networking, today advanced the economics of networking with the introduction of JCS 1200, the industry’s first high-performance Control Plane Scaling Platform. JCS 1200 introduces independent scale of control and forwarding plane resources to help maximize service growth, operational efficiencies and control. This purpose-built control plane platform enables service providers to accelerate the roll out of high-value services, reduce capital and operating expenditures, and deliver an outstanding customer experience.

As service providers seek to deliver multiple services concurrently across a converged IP infrastructure, each service must contend for a fixed amount of control plane capacity in the underlying routing infrastructure. The Juniper Networks JCS 1200 addresses this challenge by providing a standalone, dedicated platform for control plane resources (hosting multiple Routing Engines), which provides significantly enhanced scale, control and efficiency. The scale and flexibility of the JCS 1200 enables greater network monetization based on its ability to enable innovative, quality, scalable services, affording service providers a significant competitive advantage.

"Research and education networks today need the ability to provide both production IP services for their users as well as dedicated experimental facilities for network research," said Robert Vietzke, Internet2 executive director of network services.

Vietzke adds, they are encouraged to see the development of innovative control plane products like Juniper’s JCS 1200 that could provide this type of network flexibility as well as scalability to meet additional capacity demands.