Juniper Networks' WAN Solution for New Enterprise Network

Juniper Networks (News - Alert), a California based network infrastructure company, has introduced its Universal WAN solution, enabling new levels of business agility with a flexible and scalable enterprise and branch routing portfolio optimized to support rapidly growing mobile, video and cloud computing applications. With its Universal WAN solution, Juniper delivers the industry's highest performance and most scalable routing offering specifically designed to support distributed enterprises that run business-critical applications across varied locations, including data centers, campuses and branches.

"Juniper Networks has a proven track record of innovation based on what its customers require to cost-effectively build, manage and scale their networks, and the new Universal WAN solution is a good example of that focus," said Rohit Mehra, director, enterprise communications infrastructure at IDC (News - Alert).

 Juniper Networks Universal WAN is composed of new additions to the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routing portfolio, including the compact MX5, MX10 and MX40 as well as configuration updates to the SRX Series Services Gateways. The complete solution is powered by Junos®, a single, proven operating system with consistent update releases that further increase manageability, operational simplicity and resiliency.

"Juniper's Universal WAN was built to improve the economics of enterprise routing with an easy-to-deploy solution that has the flexibility to keep pace with evolving applications and traffic patterns," said Mike Marcellin (News - Alert), vice president of marketing and business strategy, Platform Systems Group at Juniper Networks. "Network managers now have a solution that meets the performance needs of the network today while building in the scalability they need to be ready for tomorrow's WAN traffic requirements."

Juniper remains uniquely positioned to maintain industry leadership based on its core competencies in architecture, silicon design, and the industry’s only carrier-class, purpose-built "pure IP" modular network operating system — Junos® operating system. Juniper offers a broad product portfolio that spans routing, switching, security, application acceleration, identity policy and control, and management to provide customers unmatched performance, greater choice and flexibility while reducing overall total cost of ownership.

"The MX Series and the Junos operating system have given us the ability to rapidly scale our business. The compact versions of the MX Series will give us the two rack unit form factor, power consumption and economy to allow us to further expand our international footprint." said Michael Todd, head of engineering, systems, for OpenX, the world's leading independent provider of digital advertising technology. "Low latency and high throughput are critical to the sophisticated technology that allows OpenX customers to maximize their online advertising revenue,” he added.