Internet Initiative Japan Simplifies Cloud Data Centers With Juniper Networks
03 August 2010 - 10:00PM
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Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Internet
Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) (NASDAQ: IIJI) (TSE1: 3774), one of
Japan's leading Internet access and network solutions providers,
has adopted Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches in its
data centers to support its newly developed cloud services under
the name IIJ GIO. By deploying Juniper's switches, IIJ was able to
build the networking component of its IIJ GIO virtualized service
platform using a simplified two-layer model that reduces cost,
complexity and latency while increasing manageability and
flexibility.
IIJ offers customized private cloud services and public services
-- including the IIJ GIO Hosting Package Service, IIJ GIO Remote
Office Service and IIJ GIO Storage Service -- from data centers
interconnected directly through its high-volume backbone network.
Each data center has thousands of servers and large storage pools
that are harnessed through the IIJ GIO platform.
"In order to offer cloud-based business infrastructure services,
it is critical to build a robust, highly reliable platform that can
rapidly respond to demand," said Kazuhiro Tokita, executive
managing officer of IIJ. "Our decision to adopt Juniper Networks
switches as the networking component of the IIJ GIO platform was
based on a number of factors including carrier-class performance
and reliability, low cost of ownership, a migration path to 100
Gigabit Ethernet and -- critically for cloud computing applications
-- simultaneous support for large numbers of VLANs."
Juniper Networks EX3200 fixed-configuration Ethernet switches
are deployed at the network edge in IIJ's data centers, connecting
large numbers of virtual LANs to the server and storage farms, with
each device linked via Gigabit Ethernet to a pair of edge switches.
Juniper's EX8200 chassis-based switches are at the core of the IIJ
GIO data center networks, supporting redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet
links to the EX3200 switches and creating a highly resilient
low-latency connection between the cloud's CPU/memory and storage
resources.
The core switches also connect to Juniper Networks MX Series
Universal Edge Routers, which IIJ has had in place for a number of
years to support its high-performance backbone network. With
Junos®, Juniper's single-source operating system, running across
the data center switching and routing devices, IIJ is able to
streamline cloud service provisioning so its customers can start
using their selected environments less than 15 minutes after
completing a contract.
"IIJ fully understands that simplifying and automating the data
center network is critical to cloud computing," said Rene Link,
vice president of service provider marketing, Juniper Networks.
"Building the IIJ GIO service platform on a simplified two-layer
network -- without compromising performance -- lowers IIJ's
operational, capital and environmental costs while reducing
complexity and improving efficiency. And with Junos running the
network infrastructure, IIJ is in a position to increase efficiency
even more through implementation of Junos Space applications."
Junos Space, running on top of the Junos operating system, is an
open, extensible software platform for network automation that
helps eliminate complexities, streamline operations, and improve
management controls for a better network. Out-of-the-box and
customized Junos Space applications, accessed through a web
browser, can quickly and accurately manage tasks -- such as
provisioning -- that would traditionally take a combination of
staff, tools, time and money to achieve in a legacy data
center.
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