Build Campus Networks That Exceed User Expectations

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Research & Education (R&E) Networks make world-changing discoveries possible. They facilitate massive collaboration as they connect research universities and labs to one another, to hundreds of networks around the world, and to cloud services and testbeds. Whether you’re pursuing the discovery of a supernova, a new particle, a targeted therapy drug, or something else, you have to rely on your network to carry petabytes of data and accommodate:

• User access at infrastructure speeds (100 Gbps)
• Lossless operations for handling “elephant flows”—the spiky, unpredictable network traffic that has low tolerance for packet loss
• The ability to run single flows at line rates
• Rock-solid security

Carrier and enterprise networks are optimized around aggregating millions of small flows. But your R&E network must also handle very large, single flows that might approach backbone line speeds.

Juniper delivers on these requirements, allowing you to use your network as a powerful, distributed instrument for collaborative discovery and innovation. We do it in a way that makes the petabyte network simple for you to run, despite the intricacies of your collaborative projects. We take care of the complexities behind the scenes so you can focus on outcomes rather than network operations.

That’s just one reason so many R&E organizations depend on Juniper to carry their data for analytics, data visualization, and other collaborative efforts. Our equipment is built around custom ASICs and robust, carrier-proven software to meet the needs of data-intensive science applications without compromising performance or security.

These strengths have made Juniper a trusted participant and vendor in the research and education networking community for more than two decades. Juniper products optimize and fortify high-end operations with capabilities that include:

• Carrier-grade reliability with six nines availability
• Security controls at multiple layers—network, routing engine, transit—without impacting other application traffic

Additionally, our routers and switches can handle very large data flows at 100-Gbps and 40-Gbps line rates. Some vendors divide data flows into separate, multiple channels, making single flows at line speed impossible. We don’t. 

Operations stay simple while you use your R&E network as a bona fide discovery instrument. When your networking requirements include science and big-data collaborative apps that rely on no-compromise performance, uptime, and security, you can rely on R&E network solutions from Juniper.

The higher-education network is no longer just an institutional necessity; it needs to truly empower, engage, and inspire students. Colleges and universities must transform brittle, complicated legacy networks into agile, secure services platforms that are accessible to students, faculty, and staff—at any time and from anywhere. 

With a modern network for higher education, you can diminish risk, cut total cost of ownership, and increase enrollment and funding, all while creating differentiation for your institution.

Juniper’s AI-Enabled Campus is a comprehensive reference architecture that allows colleges, universities, and research institutions to build secure, high-performance digital learning and research networks. 

The AI-Enabled Campus strengthens important abilities for colleges and universities. 

• Attract, engage, and retain students
• Dramatically improve the on-campus experience for the students and faculty
• Create and quickly implement new services and applications tailored to enhance the overall campus experience
• Quickly and securely extend the reach of the campus
• Protect data and privacy with robust security from the access edge to the core of the network
• Reduce costs with simplified infrastructure deployment, management, and operations
• Integrate easily into multivendor network environments 
• Accelerate and automate microservices to simplify IT operations
• Deploy sophisticated AI-enabled wireless and wired networks with unprecedented visibility and control
• Accelerate private, public, and SaaS cloud adoption initiatives

School districts, colleges, and universities form the critical pipeline in preparing students to succeed in their adult and working lives. Creating educational opportunities that lead to a more personalized, accessible, and engaging learning experience is a critical step toward improving student achievement and graduation rates.

Educators are responding to this need by making a shift to digital learning—and with that shift, students, teachers, and faculty are demanding greater technology integration. As digital learning becomes the predominant learning model, campus and data center networks must be ready to support mission-critical digital learning, online courses, and online assessments.

These networks must deliver the scale, performance, security, and agility needed to connect digital traffic to and from the classroom, study areas, school buildings, cloud-based applications, and the Internet on a nonstop basis. Organizations that don’t properly prepare for this shift suffer from traffic bottlenecks, security threats, and increasing operational complexity—all critical issues that can disrupt digital learning.

A longtime leader in the industry, Juniper has earned the trust of schools and institutions to deliver networks with ample performance, reliability, resiliency, and security to meet digital learning and business goals. These advanced networks use simplified architecture that adds ease to the process of creating and supporting the connected campus.

Schools must be ready to seamlessly deliver digital learning across traditional, remote, or hybrid instructional models while they protect against evolving cybersecurity threats and keep students healthy and safe.

Juniper, driven by Mist AI, helps schools on all learning fronts with a network built for the next decade. Districts benefit by delivering great user experiences, faster broadband and Wi-Fi connections, and more effective cyberthreat protection. IT teams win by keeping learning up and running with streamlined operations and simplified troubleshooting. Opportunities abound for IT to add innovative and strategic projects through IoT and services like location-based proximity tracing.