21Vianet and Juniper Networks Collaborate to Build an Efficient and Interconnected Data Center Network

Deploying Juniper Networks’ highly scalable MX Series Universal Routers will help 21Vianet achieve exponential growth in business operations while delivering the best end-user experience.

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that 21Vianet (NASDAQ: VNET), China’s leading carrier-neutral internet data center service provider, has deployed the Juniper Networks® MX Series Universal Routing Platform with Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) to meet the growing data traffic deployment needs and support customers’ increasing digital transformation needs.

As big data drives explosive growth in Internet traffic, the scale of China's Internet Data Center (IDC) market has steadily expanded at a compound annual growth rate of 27.1% since 2017, and is expected to reach US$35.4 billion by 2022. More and more companies hope to achieve digital transformation of their businesses, which has brought new opportunities to the IDC industry.

As China's largest carrier-neutral and cloud-neutral Internet data center service provider, 21Vianet is the main driver of the exponential growth of the IDC market and has played a vital role. Today, 21Vianet operates more than 50 data center networks in more than 20 cities across the country, with more than 51,000 network cabinets, providing more than 2,000G of port capacity, and providing more than 1,000G of dedicated high-speed cloud access to the growing user base in the world's second largest economy.

Given this continued explosive growth, 21Vianet is always evolving and improving its data centers, a practice shared by 21Vianet and Juniper Networks. As such, 21Vianet will leverage its long-standing relationship and experience-first approach with Juniper Networks for this latest round of upgrades, ensuring it can continue to support high growth while ensuring the network can meet projected traffic demands.

Through Juniper Networks' latest upgrade, 21Vianet has not only successfully improved network capacity, scale, and stability, but also provided a platform for improving efficiency and automation by implementing the SR-TE protocol, helping customers reduce operating costs and management workload, while greatly improving the end-user experience.

• Juniper Networks® MX Series Universal Routing Platforms have been deployed in 21Vianet's expanded interconnected data centers as core routers.
• The EVPN-MPLS/VXLAN protocol supports application mobility, allowing network administrators to easily migrate applications within and between different data centers, thereby optimizing network traffic and improving operational efficiency.
• The segment routing protocol also simplifies traffic management across 21Vianet's multiple network domains while meeting the need for increased bandwidth capacity.

Lin Xiaoping, Vice President and General Manager of Juniper Networks China, said:

"21Vianet is one of the most influential network infrastructure service providers in the world. We have established a close partnership for a long time. We are honored to contribute to 21Vianet's promotion of data center construction and support its accelerated market expansion. Juniper Networks has always been committed to providing 'simple' networks to enterprises. We believe that deepening cooperation with 21Vianet will provide better data center services for more local Chinese enterprises and will also promote the long-term development of the domestic data center industry."

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