Juniper SDN & Orchestration

Network Management Challenges for Service Providers and Enterprises

For service providers, the network is the money-maker. Service providers look to their network to create innovative services that solve business problems and demonstrate the added value they can bring to their customers. These services must always be available to ensure end- subscriber satisfaction, and new services need to be offered frequently as demands and technology change in order to obtain additional revenue streams.

For enterprises, the network is both a strategic and critical corporate asset, where costs have to be controlled. Explosive demand for smart devices, social media applications, and mobility-based services has placed unprecedented pressure on network operators who must provide a compelling experience to increasingly demanding, tech savvy consumers. The unrelenting expectations of highly secure and always-on connectivity and service, coupled with the growing use of cloud environments, make the network increasingly complex to manage and secure.

These networks can be extremely difficult to manage. Networks have been device centric, and each new box brought a different interface and exponential complexity. This made networks hard to manage, closed to innovation, and expensive to operate. With more users and devices than ever before, managing, securing, and delivering new services across the network has meant additional costs and complexities.

Juniper addresses these network challenges with Junos Space to help service providers and enterprise customers maximize their network value and scale solutions, all while reducing complexity. Junos Space is a critical component of Juniper’s SDN strategy as it provides a centralized management plane for a single source of truth and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs.

 

Centralized Network Management

With Junos Space, you can simplify and automate the network, improve network agility, and deliver new services quickly—all from a single console. Junos Space is composed of the following three software elements:

  • Junos Space Network Management Platform – Provides comprehensive FCAPS and element management of Juniper devices which improves operator efficiencies, providing a programmable interface and exposable APIs that enable the development and integration of third-party applications
  • Junos Space Management Applications – Plug and play, domain-specific applications to help you provision new services and optimize workflow tasks across thousands of Juniper devices
  • Junos Space SDK (software development kit) – A programmable network solution that enables you to leverage the connections and intelligence imbedded in the network to create customized management solutions for your specific needs



Key Component of Juniper’s SDN Strategy

Junos Space is a critical component of our SDN strategy as it provides a centralized management plane for a single point-of-contact into the network and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs. The Junos Space Network Management Platform and the Junos Space Management Applications are all accessible through a northbound Representational State Transfer (REST)-based Application Programming Interface (API). These open APIs provide core building blocks for new innovation, with no need to build solutions from scratch.

They also provide access to all Junos-based devices, serving as a single entry point that abstracts your network to enable you to manage, monitor, control and gather insight across your entire network infrastructure. This enables operators to use their existing Operations/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) deployments and tap into the rich functionality of both the Junos Space Network Management Platform and the Management Applications. The programmability, centralization, and customization aspects of Junos Space are important as network providers begin to embrace SDN architectures in their networks.

 

Automate and Simplify the Network with the Junos Space Network Management Platform

Junos Space Network Management Platform provides comprehensive element management of Juniper devices. No other vendor can manage Juniper devices to the depth and extent of Junos Space. With the Junos Space Network Management Platform, you get broad FCAPS capability, same day support for new devices and Junos releases, a task-specific user interface, and northbound APIs to easily integrate into existing NMS or OSS/BSS deployments.

Junos Space Network Management Platform uses multilayered network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and the simplicity of a point-and-click user interface to help network operators in enterprise and service provider organizations scale their operations, reduce operational complexity, and enable new applications and services to be brought to market quickly.

With this platform, you get a unified approach for managing Juniper infrastructure and designing/deploying new services. Junos Space offers a centralized network management and orchestration solution to manage both network devices and services through a single pane of glass for real-time visibility. This means one sign on, one user interface, one location to manage routers, switches, and security devices.

Additionally, you scale your network easily with zero-day support of new devices and operating systems with a schema driven data base, without having to upgrade the platform. With Junos Space, you get a highly scalable platform with one cluster (six nodes running in a fabric configuration) being able to manage the complete network with up to 25,000 devices.

The Junos Space platform is architected from the ground up and is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It uses industry-standard technologies to provide an enhanced user experience, massive application transparent scale, high availability, and feature velocity. The Junos Space platform provides a single abstracted network model across Juniper’s networking infrastructure, and it extends this to third parties through standards-based Representational State Transfer (RESTful) APIs. The use of a standards-based Device Management Interface (DMI), an XML schema-driven device access API, zero day support for new devices, and a plug-and-play application environment allows in-service device and software upgrades. Users can access the Junos Space platform functionality using a simple Web 2.0 graphical user interface (GUI), which uses persona-based workflows and progressive disclosure to enable operator-centric and scope-specific visibility and control.

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