SOLUTION BROCHURE

Advanced Routing
Solutions for
the Enterprise
Improve Operational Efficiencies, Cost
Savings, and Competitive Advantages

Overview
Advanced routing consists of sophisticated
capabilities in MPLS network virtualization, low
latency Multicast, carrier-class reliability, quality of
service (QoS), and security. This brochure discusses
Junipers advanced routing features and solutions in
detail; showing how they can help enterprises satisfy
business drivers and improve competitive advantages.
Many of todays high-performance businesses use
their network as a competitive tool:
New York Stock Exchange uses MPLS network
virtualization to reduce network latency and improve
trading execution.
ESnet (U.S. Department of Energy) provides 5 nines
of network reliability using traffic engineering and QoS
to support critical scientific applications.
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA uses its
network to support high bandwidth research
applications.
Junipers high-performance networking solutions
are deployed at 99 of the Fortune 100 companies,
including the worlds largest government, defense,
intelligence, and civilian agencies, and higher
education institutions.
As the high-performance network has become
mission critical, managing and securing the enterprise
network has presented increasing challenges.

Challenges
CIOs and network managers need to ensure that their networks must:
Protect against increased security risks such as malware and can safely transport data
Support transport of delay sensitive traffic that is critical to sustaining competitive
advantage
Be flexible to support network expansion
Support the prioritization of application bandwidth
Protect against both hardware and software failures to ensure business continuity

Trends
Many enterprises are attempting to address these challenges using complex legacy practices:
Proliferating security devices: To protect the network from security risks, many
enterprises deploy ad hoc security solutions that result in the proliferation of security
devices. This has complicated network management, increased latency, and adversely
affected performance of delay sensitive applications.
Increasing expense of redundant hardware: In addition to safeguarding the network
from security risks, some enterprises protect access to mission critical data by
deploying expensive redundant links and hardware. In many cases these redundant links
and hardware are underutilized, resulting in suboptimal resource allocation.
Expanding of legacy three-tiered network architecture: Enterprises are also expanding
the legacy multitiered data center network to support increased traffic. This expansion
not only increases management costs and wastes energy, but it also makes the network
inflexible in adapting to changing business needs.

Advanced Routing Solutions Portfolio

Junipers Approach to Simplifying the HighPerformance Network
Juniper Networks advanced routing solutions portfolio is integral to Junipers overall
approach to simplifying the high performance network. The advanced routing solutions
portfolio consists of MPLS network virtualization, low latency Multicast, carrier-class
reliability, advanced QoS, security, and implemented consistently in one operating system
across Junipers routing platforms.
Figure 1 depicts Junipers approach to simplifying the high-performance network.

Security

IPsec, NAT, Stateful Firewall,

Line Rate Firewall Filters,
DAA, Encryption

QoS

Hierarchical Queuing, firewall

filter classification, stat
reporting, commit scripts

Fully redundant hardware,

ISSU, FRR, BFD

Carrier-Class Reliability

ASIC-based forwarding
and replication, P2MP TE

Low Latency Multicast

Virtualization

MPLS, VPLS, Logical

Systems, Virtual Router

Two-Tiered Collapsed Architecture

Green
Networks

Advanced Routing Solution Portfolio

Junos OS
OS
Junos
Advanced Silicon and Hardware
Figure 1: Junipers approach to simplifying the high-performance network
and creating a green network

For simplification, Juniper has created a foundation that starts with innovative advanced

Junipers advanced

silicon and hardware such as the Junos Trio chipset and offers scalability in three

routing Solutions

dimensions (subscriber, bandwidth, and services). Junipers advanced hardware is

portfolio consists of:

supported by a single OSJuniper Networks Junos operating systemand a single

VirtualizationNetwork virtualization

release train across routing, switching, and security platforms. The powerful Junos OS

features make applications

contains Junipers advanced routing solutions portfolio and enables a two-tier collapsed

completely transparent to underlying

architecture that supports greening of the network:

network architecture. This allows

Reduces OpExby reducing power consumption, cooling, and the number of

changes to architecture without

software releases

impact to applications, enabling

greater flexibility. Virtualization also

Reduces CapExby requiring fewer devices and space

provides better utilization of resources

Reduces Complexityby simplifying management and support

for lower costs and improved power

Forrester points out that reduction in OpEx is critical because over 70% of IT expenditure

utilization.

is towards maintaining and operating IT systems and equipment1.

Low latency multicastMulticast

technologies provide timely delivery of

Networks provides not only hardware

MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and

M Series Multiservice Edge Routers

resiliency but also network and

To meet the enterprises high-performance networking needs without compromising

software redundancy. Junos OS is

performance, Juniper Networks offers two routing series with the most advanced routing

also easily upgradable with unified in-

features in the industry:

services to a large number of users.

Carrier-class reliabilityJuniper

service software upgrade (ISSU).

QoS Sophisticated policies
provide delay sensitive content with
predictable and measurable services.
SecuritySecurity is enhanced using
a combination of countermeasures
such as separation of traffic for
privacy reasons, and techniques to
provide network layer and application
layer security.

MX960

MX480

MX240

MX80

MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers

Optimized Ethernet services router with powerful switching and security
Ideal for WAN gateway, campus, LAN aggregation, core, as well as enterprise data center
core and aggregation

M320

M120

M10i

M7i

M Series Multiservice Edge Routers

Multiservice router with ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet, and SONET/SDH interfaces
Ideal for WAN gateway, small and medium core, and campus backbone

A Single Network OS: Maximizing Operational Efficiency and Flexibility, Forrester Consulting, Feb 19th 2009, pp 14.

Business Drivers and Junipers Advanced

Routing Features
Junipers routers are designed to address many different business drivers. Figure 2
highlights typical IT business drivers in the enterprise and the advanced features that
address those drivers.

Business Drivers

Advanced Features

Business Agility

MPLS Network Virtualization

Respond quickly to changing business needs

Carrier-Class Reliability
for Enterprise
Five nines reliability

Improved End User Experience

and Application Performance
Prioritize business applications

Increased Sustainability and

Operational Efficiency
Efficient resource utilization

Reduce Network
Complexity
Simplify network connections

Fully Redundant Hardware

Comprehensive Software Features Set

QoS
Low Latency Unicast and Multicast

Optimized Power, Cooling and Space

Integrated Security Services

Single Operating System

Collapsed and Unified Architecture

Figure 2: Business drivers and advanced features needed to address todays network challenges

The Need for Advanced Features

In order to address the challenges facing enterprises, high-end routers must evolve from
a device dedicated to connecting disparate networks to an intelligent and integrated
services device capable of multiple functions beyond fundamental routing.
Below are the advanced features that Juniper employs to meet this challenge.

1. Business AgilityMPLS Network Virtualization

Network
Segmentation

MPLS provides a cost-effective solution for supporting several groups of users with
dissimilar requirements without building and maintaining redundant networks. MPLS
enables one physical network to be configured and operate as many separate virtual
networks with Layer 2 or Layer 3 VPN services, while maintaining security, QoS, and
latency requirements for critical applications. MPLS allows enterprises to quickly set up a
network to adapt to changing business needs.

Enhance User
Experience

Privacy

MPLS
Backbone

MPLS brings the benefits of circuits to IP as shown in the figure to the right:
Supporting network segmentation and privacy
Enhancing the end user application experience with traffic engineering that enables

Scale
for
Future Growth

Improve
Network
Efficiency

fine-tuning of the network to deliver appropriate levels of QoS

Improving network resiliency with features like MPLS fast reroute, enabling sub 50
millisecond reroute to maintain real-time traffic during a node or link failure

MPLS Benefits

Boosting network scalability and performance

Allowing optimal utilization of network bandwidth
Scaling for future growth

2. Carrier-Class Reliability for the EnterpriseFully Redundant Hardware and

Comprehensive Software Resiliency
Carrier-class reliability means that data, services, applications, and resources are
available 24x7. Network hardware and software need to work together to address every
potential cause of downtime in sub-seconds. Juniper Networks provides the following
software and hardware features to ensure carrier-class reliability:
Software features provide the ability to:
- - Upgrade Junos OS releases with no disruption of the control plane and with minimal
traffic loss
- - Forward traffic even when router experiences a failure condition
- - Recover from failures quickly
- - Detect failures in connectivity rapidly and redirect traffic on other links
Fully redundant hardware (cooling, power supplies, switch fabric, and Routing Engines),
achieved by implementing separate data and control planes

3. Improved User Experience and Application PerformanceHighly Customizable,

Comprehensive, Hardware-Based QoS Features
Todays networks must provide predictable and measurable services due to increased
media rich traffic and delay sensitive content. QoS requires managing several metrics such
as delay, delay variation (jitter), bandwidth, and packet loss parameters on a network
reliably (Over 75% of those surveyed reported service interruption and business impact).
To easily control these metrics, Junipers high-performance routers offer a rich set of QoS
featuresclassification, rewrite/marking, policing, and scheduling that can be easily and
consistently configured across routing devices.
Table 1. QoS Requirements and Juniper Feature Support
Key Enterprise Requirements

Juniper Features

New QoS policy provisioned weekly to

hundreds of routers in seconds

Commit scripts

Benefits

QoS managed consistently over multiple

router platforms

Junos OS

Granular application-level classification

for QoS policy

Firewall filters

Optimal application
performance

Statistics for capacity planning and

proactive QoS policy changes

J-Flow, firewall counters

Simplified management

High performance with advanced routing

features enabled with little impact on
CPU

Line-rate performance

Consistent performance
for changing business
needs

Operational simplicity

Table 1 summarizes key enterprise QoS requirements and the Juniper features that
address them. We examine these in greater detail below.
Enterprises frequently change QoS policies, which must be propagated to designated
routers and validated to accommodate rollout of new applications. This can be quickly
accomplished using sophisticated Junos OS commit scripts. For instance, some
enterprises roll out business applications or configure them every week, and these
require a corresponding change in QoS policies.
To guarantee application performance for delay sensitive and business critical
applications such as Oracle Financials, enterprises seek application-level classification
and control. Juniper facilitates this optimal application performance by providing
powerful granular firewall filters that are easier to configure and more flexible than
access control lists (ACLs).

 Enterprises must monitor application data continuously to understand performance

of business critical applications, and to make proactive policy changes. To facilitate
this application-level monitoring, Juniper provides enterprises with metrics such as
firewall counters and J-Flow statistics, enabling enterprise IT to monitor application
performance history and easily make QoS policy changes for other applications.
Juniper offers line-rate performance for all QoS features, and can scale to match
any business need because all QoS features are implemented natively in the ASICs.
Junipers routing products offer a standard eight hardware queues per port, with an
option to increase to thousands of queues, if desired.
Ultra Low Latency Multicast and Unicast for Application Performance
Increased level of media rich traffic has raised the importance of optimized content
delivery. In addition, financial services, news services, and stock exchanges have high
touch content that requires low latency, a high level of resiliency, segmentation, and
privacy. Although native IP multicast can achieve these broadcast requirements, it lacks
the segmentation and privacy offered by combining multicast virtual private network
(MVPN) services and a point to multipoint (P2MP) delivery mechanism.
Juniper Networks is a leader in P2MP MPLS for optimal traffic replication. Junipers
hardware-based multicast allows for the highest network performance without
compromising application performance.

4. Reduced Network ComplexitySingle Operating System with a Single Architecture

Junos OS gives organizations the ability to create a simple, predictable, and reliable
network design using one operating system, one architecture and one release train.
Junos OS integrates routing, switching, and security, and provides significant operational
savings by providing a flexible platform that can adapt to changing needs, as well as one
release train that enables a stable delivery of functionality. In a recent study, 52% indicate
multiple OS versions adversely impact their operational efficiency .
The figure to the right presents an independent study, conducted by Lake Partners, that

Junos OS
reduced average
time spent on
operations by 25%

quantifies the time savings Junipers customers experience using Junos OS across a
number of common network operational tasks.
According to this study, an infrastructure of any size running Junos OS can save up to 25%

54% reduction
in troubleshooting

on operational costs. Since the IT department of a typical enterprise spends a significant

percentage of its budget to maintain and enhance basic IT services, any savings in
operational costs can be considerable.
The study also cites a 29% reduction in adding infrastructure with Junos OS, and

24% reduction in
monitoring

attributes this reduction to flexibility in the operating system. Flexibility is measured as

interoperability with existing infrastructure, modularity that allows network expansion,
support for multiple IP protocols that enables less complicated network growth, and
operating system consistency that facilitates planning.

18% reduction in
upgrading

Further, the study indicates that Junos OS reduces complexity by minimizing the number
and size of upgrades, and providing advanced monitoring tools that simplify and allow for
granular monitoring of network hardware.

29% reduction in
adding infrastructure

The 54% reduction in troubleshooting time is a result of a modular architecture that

localizes failures through separation of control and forwarding planes guarantees
resiliency through graceful restart, and validates configurations.

Collapsed Architecture for the Data Center

The typical data center architecture has three tiers: access, aggregation, and core. The threetier architecture requires a large number of devices to deploy and manage, requiring large
capital investment, more rack space, increased power requirements, and increased latency.
Figure 3 shows a legacy design to the left marked by three tiers (core, aggregation, and
access), while the right shows a data center network that has only two tiers (core and
access). The figure to the right also shows that the collapsed network design has replaced
devices in the core and aggregation tier with larger capacity routers.

Typical Data Center

Three-layer architecture
Multiple devices to deploy and manage
More rack space
Increased power requirements

Juniper Solution

Simplied, collapsed DC core architecture

MX Series high-performance density
EX Series Virtual Chassis technology
Operational eciencies and cost savings
VC1

VC2

Access

Access

Aggregation

Core

Internet/
Private WAN

Core

Internet/
Private WAN

Figure 3: Comparison between three-tier and two-tier data center designs

Gartner Research estimates that the two-tier design provides approximate savings of
28% of the capital cost of the network. Their research predicts similar savings in power
and maintenance costs .
Juniper enables you to build a highly virtualized and secure data center network that
effectively collapses the aggregation and core into two simplified tiers. This collapse
is achieved by a high level of scalability of Juniper routers that aggregate several high
capacity uplinks from the access tier. The Juniper routers complement this scalability with
high performance and reliability that are critical for low latency and a fail-safe data center
core. In short, the collapsed core:
Simplifies network architecture by reducing the number of devices
Reduces latency
Reduces space, power, and cooling requirements
Simplifies management and support

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Gartner Research, Minimize LAN Switch Tiers to Reduce Cost and Increase Efficiency, G00172149,
November 17, 2009

5. Increased Operational Efficiency and SustainabilityOptimized Power, Cooling,

and Space
Energy has become a nontrivial OpEx item, as electricity costs have risen 88% in the
U.S. (U.S. EIA official Government statistics). For the past decade, IT has rapidly added
hardware to accommodate business growth, and many data centers are now stretched
to capacity in terms of power, cooling, and floor space. By refreshing the data center
infrastructure with higher performing, smaller footprint, and more power-conscious
routers, you can deliver additional capability and scalability within the same energy and
space footprint. Juniper Networks solutions significantly reduce network complexity and
lower the total cost of ownership by eliminating network tiers and devices, thus reducing
space, power, and cooling requirements.
A data center configuration that has 1,640 servers that are connected to the access
switches with dual GbE line-rate links. The access switches are connected to the core
through a 10GbE uplink. The core routers support several 10GbE links. The list price for
a fully deployed configuration of switches and routers is 18% lower for Juniper devices.
This CapEx reduction is the result of a collapsed core, which stems from a highly scalable
platform that can support many 10GbE uplinks and hence reduce the number of devices
needed in the core. The smaller number of devices also results in 67% reduction in rack
space and a 43% reduction in power relative to competition.

Solution Planning, Implementation, and

Deployment (Sample Scenarios)
The high-performance network design calls for innovative solutions. Figure 4 depicts some
sample deployment scenarios that apply advanced routing.
Data center transport network
The private MPLS cloud connecting two or more enterprise data centers gives the
enterprise greater control over the network. The enterprise gains flexibility to manage
its competitive advantage efficiently with low latency and reliability, while running
applications on a cost-effective shared infrastructure.
The Data Center Transport Network figure shows the logical connectivity of the two
data centers. The different colored lines show that each application is allowed to
operate as if it had a private network, while maintaining QoS and latency requirements.
In case of a primary path failure (either of the blue or green lines), the critical
application is protected with a secondary/standby link (red line), with the same QoS
guarantees and predictable latency as SONET.
Data replication between data centers for increased resiliency
Many enterprises maintain colocation data centers and must migrate critical data
between them. These enterprises are looking for ways to avoid huge CapEx associated
with dedicated links, and OpEx to support migration requirements.
The data replication between data centers, shown in Figure 4, depicts virtual machine
migration from Data Center 1 to Data Center 2. This migration requires the two data
centers to be on the same Layer 2 network. By using a virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
for live migration, the enterprise no longer needs to deploy dedicated links between the
two data centers, thereby reducing capital and operating expense.

 Network-wide virtualization with MPLS reducing the number of firewalls and filters in
the network
One physical network with several virtual networks allows privacy and control across
lines of business and applications. This optimal utilization of network resources
eliminates the need to have many firewalls and filters in routers throughout the network
to maintain privacy and security, reducing CapEx and OpEx.
The Network-wide Virtualization figure depicts multiple security silos maintained
between different physical locations (indicated by red, orange, and blue colored rings).
The L3VPNs provide virtual connections between silos of the same type (represented
by the same color). This design provides a simple alternative to distributed firewall and
dedicated connections between silos, significantly reducing cost and increasing the
flexibility of the network.
Regulatory compliance
Enterprises are exposed to many regulations, and they need a simple and cost-effective
solution that can provide an increased level of compliance. Junipers advanced routing
solutions provide technology for separation of not only transport but also routing
resources for increased compliance.
Figure 4 shows regulatory compliance in a power utility. The SCADA control system
traffic is separated from other traffic using MPLS without deploying physically separate
network links.

Data Center Transport Network

Network-wide Virtualization
Reducing Number of Firewalls and Filters
Extended Enterprise

INTERNET
Data Center

Corporate WAN

PE
ISG Series

SSG Series

Internet/
WAN

Distributed
Enterprise/Branch

PRIVATE MPLS

Campus

High Performance
Low Latency

Data Center

ISG Series

PE

Critical applications
protected by MPLS
Fast-Reroute

Data Center

ISG Series

Data Center

Data Replication Between Data Centers

Regulatory Compliance

VPLS Over
MPLS Core

Power Generation
Stations

MX Series
Routers

Juniper
Router

Utility Provider
Administrative VPN Network
Converged MPLS-based
Network

Internet
VM1

VM2
Data Center 1

VM2

VM1
Data Center 2

Figure 4: Sample deployment scenarios applying advanced routing

10

Smart
Meter

SCADA/Control System
VPN Network

M Series

M Series

Juniper
Router

Consumer

SummaryAdvanced Routing Solutions Deliver

Competitive Advantages to the Enterprise
Enterprises are increasingly deploying high-performance networks as a competitive tool
as they respond to new business demands and increased competitive pressures. These
enterprises can benefit from Juniper Networks advanced routing advantage to improve
cost savings and operational efficiencies.
Enterprises reap numerous benefits from Junipers advanced routing solutions, such as:
Extending the virtualization advantage with network virtualization
Carrier-class reliability
Reduced network complexity
Lower capital and operating expense
Sustainability and operational efficiency
Improved application performance
Further, Juniper uniquely offers these advanced routing features in Junos OSone
operating system with one release train working across Junipers portfolio of MX Series
and M Series products.

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a highperformance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for
accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels
high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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