Juniper Networks Markets

Juniper Networks offers service providers and carriers a range of IP services to accelerate the carrier transition to IP in four specific markets: backbone core , edge, mobile, and cable. The following descriptions of these markets are herewith abbreviated from the Juniper Networks 2001 Annual Report .

Backbone Core

The core of service provider networks needs to provide a unique combination of speed and intelligence to scale network offerings on demand at the edge of the network. Core users are service providers and carriers provisioning and deploying scalable IP infrastructure for quickly creating premium IP services. These value-added services are delivered to enterprises , governments , and regional providers that resell the services. Growth in the network edge business fuels the need for more backbone core capacity and shared software functionality to enable new IP services. The need is for scalable solutions with a common set of features and services to minimize capital expenses and reduce operational costs.

Edge

The edge is where service providers depend on the New Public Network for value-added IP services that give their customers connections to resilient IP services and dedicated access. Stress on edge and dedicated access infrastructure stems from growth in multilayer enterprise VPN offerings, consumer broadband connections, and other concurrent class-differentiated services, including access from mobile networks.

Mobile

Legacy Frame Relay and cell relay networks need IP overlays to scale new, concurrent voice, video, or data services on 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. Mobile operators require a new gateway platform ”a scalable, wireless Internet router ”to interface hundreds of thousands of wireless connections with the edge of a mobile network.

Cable

Cable market multiservice operators (MSOs) enhance the value of hybrid fiber “coax networks through a unique combination of scalable IP voice, video, and data services. Consumer users depend on MSOs to provide scalable access to these IP services through two-way interactive cable modems. MSOs need to upgrade both the legacy routing and asymmetric cable head-end portions of their networks to provision two-way IP services at scale. These cable operators require infrastructure that efficiently facilitates software control and management of multimedia IP services from multiple service operators over the same network.