Juniper Network Edge: Overview

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The Juniper Flexible Service Edge (FSE) solution helps service providers streamline the introduction of high-margin, cloud-centric services. It’s a unified edge platform that supports a range of services, from connectivity to managed router to full-featured SD-WAN. With the Flexible Service Edge, you can seamlessly upgrade from one service to another with a simple change in licensing, so you pay only for what you need when you need it. Disruption is kept to a minimum.

Our solution consists of an adaptable, service-aware fabric that provides high scalability, performance, and resiliency at the network edge.

Four Reasons to Choose Juniper FSE

1. Deliver differentiated services and improve customer satisfaction. Your end users expect service consistency across all access types, networks, and clouds. The FSE software-defined fabric maintains services and tenancy context throughout the network. You can deploy multicloud, 5G, and mobile-edge computing (MEC) solutions to deliver differentiated user experiences.

2. Improve business outcomes for new and existing services. Intense competition for connectivity services puts extreme pressure on your margins while you simultaneously must expand into new, higher-margin businesses. The FSE platform is cost-competitive for low- and high-value services. It can help you reduce OpEx through automation and greater network visibility, and its session-based and tunnel-free approach reduces bandwidth cost 30 to 50%.

3. Secure the edge with confidence. Edge compute and 5G deployments exponentially increase the number of edge points, which exponentially increases your security risk. It’s not enough to secure only the perimeter. FSE has security baked into its platform with Zero Trust session integrity and a deny-by-default fabric that provides finely granular security on a session level.

4. Break free from legacy architectures. Legacy SD-WAN solutions based on static VPN-based overlays, hardware-centric connectivity, centralized hub-and-spoke routing, and IP address routing context all prevent you from realizing the agility and economics cloud delivers. FSE is a software-based solution that’s programmable, distributed, elastic, and mobile, enabling you to decrease operational expenses and increase service velocity.

Businesses are adopting cloud-based applications and services  to avoid infrastructure cost and complexity, increase IT agility,  and accelerate digital transformation.
According to a 2020 global  industry survey, 96 percent of businesses utilize at least one  public cloud.  The cloud fundamentally reshapes enterprise traffic flows,  introducing a variety of performance, security, and service quality  challenges for network planners. Legacy WANs, designed to  support traditional enterprise applications and services, aren’t well  suited for the cloud-centric world of IT. 

 “With the coming of 5G and the litany of new services that will accompany it, service providers have an opportunity to expand from delivering mere connectivity services to a higher-level of offerings that provide transformational benefits for their networks and the bottom line,” said Andy Ory, CEO 128 Technology.  
“With Flexible Service Edge, service providers now have a launching point to deliver a host of new service offerings that can help them along their journey from managed circuits to managed SD-WAN, to total digital transformation.”The L3NID is easily upgraded to a Managed Router to deliver increased monthly recurring revenue for the service provider as a managed service.  The Managed Router provides IP underlay routing (BGP, OSPF, etc.), traffic engineering, QoS and L4 firewall capabilities.

And finally, the FSE can be upgraded to the full capabilities of 128T’s Session Smart Router to deliver on tunnel-free network transformation initiatives including SD-WAN, SD-Branch, IoT and 5G.The modern enterprise  requires a modern enterprise network—one that is adaptable,  application-aware, and designed from the ground up to handle  today’s diverse workloads and dynamic data flows.
Juniper® Session Smart SD-WAN is a state-of-the art, service centric networking solution that eliminates the inherent  inefficiencies and cost constraints of traditional WAN products  and legacy SD-WAN solutions. The fully software-based solution  provides agile, secure, and reliable WAN connectivity with  breakthrough economics and simplicity. 

The Session Smart Router takes  distributed, software-defined  routing to an entirely new level.  This innovative networking solution  enables enterprises and service  providers to build service-centric  fabrics that deliver breakthroughs  in simplicity, security, performance,  and savings. 

And most importantly,  it creates a networking  environment that delivers the  agility businesses need to move  with their customers and outpace  their competitors.