Juniper PSM-SFF-PTX-DC-R Routers

New traffic dynamics like mobility, video, and cloud-based services are transforming traditional network patterns and topologies. Stratified, statically designed and manually operated networks must evolve to meet demands quickly and economically. Many operators have seen profitability stagnate and total cost of ownership (TCO) grow under the burden that growing traffic demands are imposing. Service providers need to become more agile in order to optimize their existing network resources, shorten planning cycles, and remove rigid network layers. Static scale: The service provider backbone handles the entire weight of the network’s traffic. Therefore, it is paramount that the core network grows organically, along with the traffic. The silicon, system, and SDN innovations for the core empower service providers to scale faster than the traffic demands themselves in an elegant, elastic, redundant package—without requiring forklift upgrades. Static architecture: Virtualized services and the explosion of cloud-based applications are creating traffic patterns that are increasingly unpredictable. To handle this unpredictability, service providers need their architectures to be flexible and dynamic across all layers. A rigid architecture hinders rather than enables programmable, predictable, and traffic-optimized networks supporting any service, anywhere. Power challenges: For service providers, the operational cost to transmit a bit through the core is far exceeded by the power requirements to move that bit. Service providers have determined that the total power draw over a few years exceeds the total cost of deploying the network infrastructure. Efficient core router power utilization requires a holistic ground-up engineering approach. Facility challenges: Service providers cannot continue growing their facilities exponentially. They need innovations that provide a low-touch deployment model optimized around space availability, facility power requirements, and floor weight thresholds. Transport-oriented central office locations have the added requirement of European Telecommunications Standardization Institute (ETSI) standard depth, and any packet transport innovation must fit these constraints. In order to address these challenges, service providers need an innovative core router that delivers three defining principles: performance, deployability, and SDN programmability. With Juniper Networks® PTX Series Packet Transport Routers, Juniper is introducing the industry’s only core router that exceeds these requirements and easily fits into the service provider network, expanding the Juniper Networks Converged Supercore® architecture beyond lean LSR deployment