2019 NXTWORK Juniper Networks Summit concluded successfully, Juniper Networks and China win together in the multi-cloud era

[51CTO.com original article] On July 11, 2019, Juniper Networks held the 2019 NXTWORK Juniper Networks Summit in Qingdao. The key words of this summit are "change, innovation, sentiment, and future". At the scene, Juniper Networks' global, Asia-Pacific and China senior executives, together with more than 300 invited partners, customers and industry experts, discussed the new trends in the development of the global network industry and conducted in-depth communication and exchanges on topics such as how to establish a win-win IT ecological environment in the Chinese market.

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During the break of the meeting, several senior executives from Juniper Networks around the world, Asia Pacific and China were interviewed by 51CTO reporters. They shared Juniper Networks' views on hot topics such as 5G and WiFi6, and elaborated on their judgments and thoughts on the technological trends in the development of the Chinese network market and new customer demands.

In the multi-cloud era, Juniper Networks helps customers overcome four major challenges

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Lin Xiaoping, vice president of Juniper Networks and general manager of China, first shared the company's three major changes this year. First, in order to better meet the multi-cloud environment, Juniper Networks has begun to adjust its global organizational structure this year and established a cloud department for the first time, which directly reflects the company's emphasis on cloud trends. Secondly, Juniper Networks' JUNOS product is one of the few operating systems in the industry that uses a single software to connect all hardware products. It has received very good feedback in the industry. Therefore, in 2019, Juniper Networks launched an enhanced JUNOS, namely JUNOS Evolved, with further enhanced expansion capabilities. Finally, with the advancement of multi-cloud and the high requirements for low latency in the 5G era, Juniper Networks has realized that the new era of the Internet of Things has arrived, so it has officially launched 400G commercial products to the market in March this year.

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At this summit, reporters found that Juniper Networks has done enough homework on how enterprise users should welcome the arrival of multi-cloud environments. AE Natarajan, senior vice president of global R&D at Juniper Networks, believes that enterprise users will face four major challenges in the process of migrating to multi-clouds: one is security, how to ensure site security in a multi-cloud deployment environment; the second is how to manage a multi-cloud environment on a single management interface. AE Natarajan gave an example, if a downtime occurs at a certain site, how should the enterprise solve it, whether it is remote control or local IT personnel to solve it, or through automated CBP operation and maintenance deployment. The third is how to solve the migration of workloads in a multi-cloud environment, mobility issues, and how to manage traffic. For example, when the workload of the local data center is saturated, how to migrate to multi-cloud. Fourth, many enterprise users are already accustomed to local private data centers. When data is migrated to the cloud, it is necessary to do some debugging on people's trust and comfort.

AE Natarajan introduced that Juniper Networks' Contrail is a unified management platform that can support heterogeneous scenarios, a very stable transformation platform and a true turnkey solution. Whether it is security, refined management, workload migration, or the trust it brings to customers, there are very detailed solutions that can eliminate all concerns of enterprise users in the process of migrating from a single cloud to multiple clouds.

Juniper Networks China Chief Technology Officer Jing Youhao added that in the middle and late stages of the cloud era, many partners have become more rational and pragmatic. Especially in a multi-cloud environment, when users find that their network architecture is becoming more and more complex in heterogeneous situations, especially after large-scale cloud migration, it becomes particularly important whether the availability of network products can stand the test. Therefore, in order to provide users with more stable and reliable solutions, more and more partners are now very interested in Contrail technology and are willing to accept it, precisely because they value Juniper Networks' characteristics of steady progress with its technological strengths. "Today, financial cloud, government cloud, and medical cloud are the top three heterogeneous hybrid cloud application scenarios. We are also building this ecosystem and improving our delivery capabilities, just as we build this capability in line with this market and as we implement it."

5G+WiFi6, Juniper Networks keeps up with the trend and demonstrates its strength

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This year, 5G licenses were issued, and many manufacturers were unwilling to lag behind and launched related products and solutions. Juniper Networks is very confident about this. Jing Youhao told reporters that many 5G design concepts are based on cloud and virtualization, so that network resources can be used to the extreme. Cloud has many breakthroughs and applications in 5G. On the core network side, the support model of future services will be provided in the form of cloud. Due to the need for dynamic mobilization of network layer resources, traditional equipment including routers and switches must be able to respond to the cloud, so slicing becomes particularly important. It is difficult for equipment to be able to do this. Juniper Networks' telecom cloud built based on Contrail is very close to the needs of 5G development. There is no doubt that Juniper Networks is fully prepared technically.

He said that with the implementation of 5G applications in many scenarios, the demand for high bandwidth and low latency will cause a lot of intelligent processing to be moved to the edge. Juniper Networks can achieve unified scheduling of network resources in the edge cloud and provide solutions for unified support of applications. It uses Contrail technology to create a distributed layout according to the multi-cloud architecture to support the edge cloud. This is also a major technical highlight of Juniper Networks.

When talking about the hot search term WiFi6 this year, Jing Youhao believes that WiFi has its application scenarios, especially in areas where 5G cannot cover. Its tariff performance determines that WiFi will maintain a high vitality. He revealed that Juniper Networks has just acquired a company called Mist, which can make many optimizations and supports in terms of quality, security shielding and other aspects of Wi-Fi technology based on the new Wi-Fi6 technology. More importantly, they can use machine learning to improve user experience based on user experience. "Mist not only manages Wi-Fi access points, but can also manage 5G with its future potential."

At the end of the interview, Lin Xiaoping said that Juniper Networks will continue to exert its strength in the previous market in 2019. In the telecom operator, enterprise market, and Internet enterprise market, Juniper Networks has been growing steadily. For this year's hot 5G, Juniper Networks maintains a close cooperation with Ericsson, mainly responsible for the construction of the mobile network in 5G involving the IP core, and there will be more market actions in the future.

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