As you envision taking your Smart City vision to reality, moving from early experimentation to at-scale deployment, are you ready to protect against emerging security threats?
Join Mike Marcellin, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Juniper Networks as he shares why a new security paradigm is needed and how your organization can make the transition smoothly.
This project leverages the concept of network virtualization by creating independent instances of Network Slices that guarantees isolation from the underlying hardware. The Data Utility Controller (DUC) creates and manages the network slices and provides a dedicated portal for each of the Service Providers to manage their slice of the network. In addition, the concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and end user control is demonstrated through a cloud-based services platform.
More than 1.5 million people call the City of Philadelphia home. It’s the birthplace of liberty and the cheesesteaks. Philadelphia is also an innovator in advanced IT services, with a citywide network that supports 30,000 workers in dozens of departments from first responders to urban planners. The city’s Juniper backbone has delivered 99.99% uptime over more than five years.
Business Challenge
With a Juniper network connecting hundreds of government offices to the city’s data center and beyond, the City of Philadelphia has laid the foundation for a more efficient, innovative city. Smart city services like intelligent traffic lights keep neighborhoods and environmentally sustainable. Empowered by the operational simplicity of a Juniper network, a lean IT team of four handles all the network tasks.
Exceptional connectivity, not location, is the new driver of economic growth. Portsmouth is building a state-of-the-art municipal network to attract the best and brightest to the area. Carrier-grade routing provides the foundation for the Southeast’s next smart city.
Business Challenge
Portsmouth’s municipal network connects businesses, schools, hospitals and city government—and offers transatlantic reach. The network is creating competition that will drive down the cost of Internet services. And the city has earmarked multiple smart city projects, including Wi-Fi and transportation.
Anemic broadband meant that residents and businesses of Fairlawn, Ohio, paid more for Internet but got less. To break down the digital divide, this Midwestern city built FairlawnGig, a broadband network to bring fiber to every home and business.
Business Challenge
A $10 million investment over ten years in municipal broadband is paying off handsomely. The city is already attracting more businesses, growing tax revenues, and increasing home values. It gave residents better Internet for less money. And it’s on a path to becoming a smart city. Entirely managed by the city, FairlawnGig is built on the simplicity of Juniper networking.
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