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Table 2: JUNOS Software Operating Efficiencies (Lake Partners 2007)
NETWORK OPERATIONS TASK AVERAGE JUNOS EFFICIENCY
Adding Infrastructure 29%
Upgrading and Planned Events 23%
Troubleshooting and Unplanned Events 54%
Monitoring and Optimizing 24%
Average Time Saved With JUNOS Software 25%
This time savings translates to a substantial, tangible cost savings. According to Lake Partners, an infrastructure
of any size running JUNOS Software can save up to 29 percent on operational costs. Seeing that the IT department
of a typical enterprise spends 40 to 60 percent of its budget to maintain and enhance basic IT services (McKinsey &
Company 2006), this savings could be considerable.
Unified Management with Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager (NSM)
The Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager (NSM) product is a powerful, centralized management
solution that controls the entire device life cycle of firewall/IPsec VPN and intrusion prevention system (IPS) devices,
including basic setup and network configuration with local and global security policy deployment. Unmatched role-
based administration allows IT departments to delegate appropriate levels of administrative access to specific users,
thereby minimizing the possibility of a configuration error that may result in a security hole. NSM can easily scale to
meet the needs of any enterprise with data centers. A wide range of reporting tools are available, enabling IT to view
and analyze network traffic, device and VPN statistics, system resources, and other administrative information. IT
can also customize templates for commonly used reports and generate these reports on a regularly scheduled basis.
Benefits
NSM lowers operational costs by presenting a GUI to simplify complex tasks such as device configuration, supplying
device templates to minimize configuration errors, providing investigative tools for complete visibility into the
network, and more.
Remote Configuration and Management with J-Web
In addition to a full-featured command-line interface (CLI), J-Web, a Web-based tool, is available to configure and
manage any JUNOS Software-powered device.
Benefits
Built on JUNOS Software, J-Web offers highly-available data centers a graphical user interface for device
management complementing the exiting suite of element and service management products from Juniper. J-Web
provides IT administrators and network operators with simple-to-use tools to quickly and seamlessly monitor,
configure, troubleshoot and manage any switch, router, or firewall.
J-Web allows non-technical users in data center/small office environments to commission and bring a router online
quickly and easily. It offers seamless GUI access to all of the features and functions of JUNOS Software, reducing
timelines for new service deployments. J-Web can be quickly integrated into existing network management or OSS
(Operational Support System) applications such as MicromuseNetcool Omnibus, Dorado RedCell Manager, IBM
Tivoli and HP OpenView, thereby minimizing complexity for the service provider or enterprise customer. Fast error-
free service changes and upgrades can be made with J-Web’s quick configuration wizards, and new services can
be rapidly created and deployed with the use of configuration and QoS wizards that allow for real-time changes to
service parameters.
Conclusion
The data center network is arguably the most valuable corporate asset. It plays an integral role in supporting key
business processes and joining today’s increasingly decentralized workforce. With a trend towards the centralization
and consolidation of data centers and servers, a high-performance, highly available network is vital to overall
business success. Legacy solutions cannot meet the growing data center LAN needs for security, connectivity,
performance and high availability. A new data center LAN design that meets these needs while enabling key IT
initiatives is required. It must also economically scale and flexibly accommodate new computing trends and leverage
new technologies such as virtualization without an entire redesign.