Juniper Pours A Shot Of Its Data Centre Juice Into Campus Networks

Campus networks will obtain the same capabilities as data center networks, after the Juniper networks reduced the functionality of the EVPN-VXLAN structure to campus size deployments.

The goal, said the company, is to help companies build a fabric for the entire company. In particular, Gin Palace explained, the change means that campus networks can now run the same set of protocols that organizations have implemented in their data centers.

The central axis of the integration of DC to campus is to enable the switches of the EX series with the implementation of the company's EPVN-VXLAN protocol, which provides layer 3 transport and layer 2 capabilities.

To complement its existing switches, Juniper launched the EX4650 switch, a high density 25/100 Gbps unit with up to 48 100 Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 ports at 25 Gbps and eight uplinks of 100 Gbps. In its superior configuration, the 1 RU segment has an aggregate capacity of 2 Tbps in Layer 2 and Layer 3.

The campus has an element that is not seen in the data centers: Wi-Fi almost omnipresent as an end point. To cover that, the company also expanded its resale agreement with Aerohive Networks, with Juniper's Sky Enerprise integrated with the Aerohive Cloud service APIs and the HiveManager management system.

The company's portfolio of branches also received some attention: the quality of service of the application has been added to the SD-WAN of Contrail. It covers 3,700 applications, with Microsoft offers such as Outlook, Sharepoint and Skype for Business highlighted.

QoS, Juniper explained, is managed in its various WAN endpoints, using policies administered by the Contrail orchestration service. Your branch devices of the NFX and SRX series also obtain active-active clusters, to improve the performance and reliability of your various WAN options.