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The Junos Software Advantage

What is it?
A single-source network OS that integrates routing, switching and security services for high-performance networks.

Why does it matter?

Competitors’ software hinders network enhancement for new business needs and drives up costs:
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 onolithic software architectures—Creates a greater risk of downtime from software instabilities, performance
degradation and security attacks with the inter-dependencies of co-mingled processes; requires repetitive tuning and fixes.
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 ultiple release trains and software versions—Needless complexity leads to feature inconsistency, including gaps in
backwards compatibility, and the need for frequent fixes and extensive planning and testing for upgrades, raises risks of
human error.

Why is it different?
The Way It Is Built

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What are the key selling points?

EXCELS AT HIGH-PERFORMANCE OPERATERATIONS—Enhances operations, lowers costs
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 vailability—It Just Works. Stands up to attacks, congestion and other instabilities with carrier-class reliability; many
mechanisms for seamless failover; averts downtime caused by human error with failsafe configuration.
– Lake Partners survey: Average decrease in the frequency (24%) and duration (30%) of unplanned events.
• Efficiency—It Saves You Time. Eases Operations Effort and Reduces Errors. Friendly user interface with failsafe protections
and customizable automation, including advanced tools for configuration, monitoring, diagnostics.
– Lake Partners survey: Average decrease in time spent troubleshooting was 54%
– Lake Partners survey: Average of the time savings for all operational tasks was 25%
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 lexibility—It Simplifies Changes and Upgrades. More stable software with one release line means fewer fixes and
straightforward upgrades that simply work.

What about migration?

• Proven—Thousands of government/enterprise networks, top 40+ service providers.
• Interoperability—Works with your existing infrastructure, both devices and management systems.
• Training—Fast Track program reduces time/cost of certification: www.juniper.net/training/fasttrack/

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Key Qualities and Benefits of JUNOS Software

JUNOS Description High-Level Benefits Questions to Find Pain
Consistent Features are Common user experience to Have you had to change to a different
implementation of implemented in the same simplify training, planning, release to get a feature? What happens
Control Plane features manner, regardless of qualification, deploying new when your team has to remember
platform features different implementations for different
features?
Steady enhancement 4 preset releases per Adapts to future needs and How many IOS versions? Do upgrades
with graceful year; current features features with ease; streamlines turn into Cisco hardware upgrades?
extensibility work in future versions of upgrade process from planning to When have you lost a feature? Have you
software implementation downgraded because of a problem? How
long did the fix take?
Modularity with Dedicated resources for Fault tolerance, redundancy, What causes instabilities in your network
control and forwarding each function; modular predictable performance as devices? Has a simple error led to a full
separation software design with features activated, availability of crash? How do you access the CLI in a
well-defined APIs CLI during Distributed Denial of DDoS attack? When have you seen device
Service (DDoS) and other attacks performance decline as features are
activated?
Advanced high Multiple failover Prevent downtime events through What is your device-level redundancy?
availability (HA) features mechanisms and early identification of issues and When have you seen problems in one
proactive response seamless failover device ripple into your entire network?
Commit model for Changes to candidate Failsafe mechanisms for What types of failure events have
configuration config with advanced configuration; changes occurred during device configuration?
check/confirm/rollback implemented in complete sets What procedures are in place to avoid
configuration errors?
Automation scripts Automate configuration, Confidence in changes, avert What if new administrators could
for configuration, operations commands errors, avoid repetitive tasks, configure as well as senior people?
monitoring and and event notifications in recognize problems sooner, faster What if your network was faster to
diagnostics a custom way fixes, lower OPEX troubleshoot? What if you could learn
from problems and prevent them from
happening again?
Adoption of standards/ Interoperability with Works with existing equipment When adding a non-Cisco device to your
open other equipment; and systems; greater choice and network, what challenges do you face?
Integrate to systems control in solution design How many vendors do you have for PCs,
servers, storage, IP services? Why?

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that
creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This
fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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