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Juniper’s second quarter may lack some luster due to lower demand among service providers and enterprises, according to investment form UBS. UBS states in a quarterly preview bulletin that its “checks” show a product transition challenge in switching …
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The service provider core router market is expected to undergo an upgrade cycle as 100Gbps Ethernet gains in adoption. This could build on the 11% growth the market realized in Q1, its fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year growth, ac…
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Adding optical switching to a packet switch brings Juniper into a totally new market and could dramatically change carriers' network operations over time. …Computerworld New Zealand
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper (NYSE: JNPR) are using this week’s OFC/NFOEC conference in Los Angeles, Calif. to show off the results of their recent 100 Gbps interoperability test between Optical Transport Network equipment and routers.
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Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), once a relative newcomer in the routing world that was traditionally a two-horse race between Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Juniper (NYSE: JNPR), continues to advance its position in the IP router market reveals Infonetics’ fourt…
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In its creation of the world's first 100 GigE nationwide research network, Internet2 is extending its long-standing partnership with Juniper Networks and …See all stories on this topic »
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“The Juniper universal edge router provides a solution that is not only technically advanced, but offers LeaseWeb enhanced financial benefits and increased …See all stories on this topic »TheHostingNews.com (press release)
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At Juniper Networks he developed core router implementations for fast forwarding table convergence and differentiated services capabilities. …See all stories on this topic »
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Brocade is ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in 100G Ethernet. The company later this month will unveil 100G Ethernet routers and modules that it claims will be “industry altering” and its “most significant networking platform develop…
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The TX Matrix Plus leverages the superior technology of Juniper's T1600, the industry's highest capacity, most energy-efficient single-chassis core router. …See all stories on this topic »
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The debut of Cisco’s CRS-3 router may have scored high on this week’s hype-o-meter, but now rival Juniper Networks is making some core routing noise of its own. TeliaSonera is leveraging Juniper’s TX Matrix Plus, the multichassis version its T1600 core router.
And like most incumbent service providers, TeliaSonera has two sources on hand for its core routing needs: Cisco and Juniper. In 2007, TeliaSonera also deployed the CRS-1. For this deployment, Juniper is not replacing its rival, but instead is upgrading an existing T-Series router in its Frankfurt, Germany node to the TX Matrix Plus.
According to a LightReading article, Juniper says this deployment is part of an ongoing series of network upgrades that it has lined up with TeliaSonera. “It’s not the last one. We’re working with them on a number of upgrades,” says Esben Dahl-Nielsen, a regional sales director at Juniper.
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- Light Reading has this article
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Juniper says TeliaSonera AB (Nasdaq: TLSN) has deployed the TX Matrix Plus, the multichassis version of Juniper's T1600 core router. …
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Verizon is serious about 100 Gbps networking, and its latest field trial in North Dallas, Texas is another proof point in the service provider’s desire. In the latest trial, Verizon worked with Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar Corp. to apply standards-based optics end-to-end and 100 Gbps native router interfaces.
Following a deployment of a 100 Gbps link between Paris and Frankfurt, Germany that it implemented in December, Verizon transmitted data over a 1,520-km optically amplified section of its network in North Dallas for this trial. One of the bigger implications of the trial is that it is being used to validate the 100 Gbps transfer rate standard set to be ratified by the IEEE and ITU-T this June.
During the trial, Verizon demonstrated end-to-end traffic flow, including live video traffic through a 100 Gbps interface on the Juniper T1600 Core Router to the NEC SpectralWave DWDM system, which was equipped with 100G real-time coherent transponders. Verizon then made a connection between the router and the DWDM system through Finisar 100G CFP optical transceiver modules.
Instead of migrating to 40 Gbps, it’s clear that the larger service providers are set on taking a detour directly from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps–a process that Verizon argues is less costly than upgrading its networks with more 10 Gbps links. Since 2007, Verizon has been conducting various live 100 Gbps trials on its network. And while it has not set specific timelines yet, the service provider told FierceTelecom in a previous interview about its European 100 Gbps deployment that it plans to upgrade other 10 Gbps showing signs of exhaustion to 100 Gbps in the U.S.
For more:
- see the release here
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We’ve got a lot going on here on the wireline side of FierceTelecom this week. In addition to the launch of our new FierceCable newsletter, I would like to call your attention to our new eBook on packet optical networking platforms (PONP).
As you’ll see when you read the PONP eBook, the movement to PONPs reflects the incumbent carriers challenge of maintaining legacy and next-gen service demands.
These factors are driving service providers to adopt platforms that can support the roles of optical transport, TDM and packet services. A Packet Optical Network Platform (PONP) serves those roles by combining three essential elements: a WDM piece with a reconfigurable add-drop module (ROADM); a TDM interface to multiplex and groom traditional TDM traffic; and an Ethernet switching interface. Of course, vendors and service providers alike are divided on what’s the best PONP approach.
Router vendors such as Juniper favor an approach that integrates optical transponders and OTN switching to a core router, while optical-centric vendors (Fujitsu and Cyan Optics) favor a ‘packet integration approach’ that adds OTN and packet switching to the optical network platform.
Another question with PONPs is why a next-gen platform should support old school TDM when IP is clearly the future? Well, as we chronicle in a case study on Verizon Communications’ application of PONPs in its network, the ability to support TDM and packet helps it meet the varying demands of its wholesale wireless backhaul and even enterprise customers.
One area where TDM continues to be prevalent for Verizon is in wireless backhaul. In a case study we conducted with Verizon, Glenn Wellbrock, director of optical transport network design and architecture for Verizon explains that the majority of Ethernet continues to traverse over SONET.
For Verizon, the PONP comes in handy as a way to accommodate the varying requirements its wireless carrier customers have for wireless backhaul on one network element. Today, wireless operators favor three different approaches: all-Ethernet point to point transport, switching in between and DS1 transport.
“So for us, the transition is slow, and we can see all three service types at every cell tower,” says Wellbrock. “Everyone has different ways they want to carry this Ethernet handoff, even though it may all be Ethernet.”
What Verizon’s experience reveals is that regardless of any vendor debate over what approach is best, the application of this technology will be ultimately decided by the needs of the carrier and one that provides a bridge between the old TDM and next-gen IP worlds.
With that in mind, I encourage you to take a look at the eBook and weigh in on the debate on what’s becoming a transformational trend in the telecom industry. –Sean
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