Provider Infranets
Introduction
Provider Infranets are Juniper Networks recipe for helping service providers and network operators build Next Generation Networks. Provider Infranets also enable participation in a new framework for the business of IP - as defined by the IPsphere Forum. Service providers who take the Juniper approach improve their revenue opportunities and gain operating and capital efficiencies through:
- Expanding their services portfolios to deliver any subscriber or business offering – wireline or wireless – with control of the overall experience.
- Implementing an architecture of service independent loosely coupled resources for greater flexibility.
- Creating structured business arrangements with content and network partners.
As a member of the IPsphere Forum, an independent consortium of industry leaders, Juniper Networks is committed to helping service providers realize these goals in their own business. Juniper Networks assists customers with a concrete framework for enabling new IP-based services and is aligned to the IPsphere Forum's technical reference architecture.
Description
For network service providers, the race is on for the next generation of service revenues. While the Internet is revolutionizing user experiences, it has failed as a service business model. The way forward requires a fundamentally different approach: a true "business layer" for IP.
The IPsphere Forum, an independent consortium of industry leaders that includes Juniper Networks, is now defining the next-generation IP business model: an "IPsphere." Juniper Networks Provider Infranets offer a blueprint for helping service providers execute on the IPsphere Forum framework through:
- Greater integration of content and processing intelligence into service portfolios - beyond traditional access and transport.
- Pan-operator platforms that assure services across boundaries, and guarantee equitable business arrangements between participants.
- A service-rich environment that has economic and technical benefits for all participants.
Our extensive portfolio of routing, security and application products lets network service providers build Provider Infranets today - delivering the secure and assured infrastructure required for next-generation IP services, and providing the framework for integral participation in IPspheres.
More specifically, Juniper Networks portfolio of Infranet-enabled products equips service providers with the resources necessary for executing on the IPsphere architecture: the Traffic Handling and Network Policy & Control Strata. Juniper Networks open approach to the Service Structuring Stratum aligns with the ongoing efforts of the IPsphere Forum - particularly the evolution of service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
Literature
Articles
- Infranets - Migrating Circuit-based Services to Converged Networks
Featured article from Comverge! Network Digest. - What the Heck's an Infranet?
Feature article on Infranets from Network World Signature Series.
Solution Briefs
- The Foundation Infranet: A "Cookbook" for Network Service Providers
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Describes the steps required for Network Service Providers to build a Foundation Infranet using networking functionality available today. - IPv6 and Infranets168 KB
An overview of IPv6 in relation to Infranet deployment and Juniper Networks IPv6 solution.
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