"While we may be considered a small business by IT industry standards, we still have the need for an enterprise-quality campus network so that our operations run smoothly," said Doug Adams, IT director, Anchorage Museum. "With Juniper Networks, not only are we able to deploy a wide range of solutions that meet our specific needs, we also have the benefit of significant cost savings and ease of deployment. Juniper is now our single network provider that offers the best products from the network edge to the end user."

Juniper Networks EX4200 Ethernet switches, featuring Virtual Chassis technology, form the network core, with Juniper Networks EX3200 Ethernet switches in the access layer. The core is a 10 Mbps metro Ethernet fiber ring that supports the museum's virtualized server and storage environment. Juniper Networks J Series Services Routers are employed as border routers. The primary Internet connection is made through a Juniper Networks J2300 Services Router, which is also protected by Juniper Networks SSG Series Secure Services Gateways and delivers high-performance security.

The company said that its EX4200 line of Ethernet switches provides high-speed, carrier-class performance in a compact form factor. Virtual Chassis technology enables up to 10 EX4200 switches to be interconnected and operate as a single logical device, reducing management overhead and operational expenses. The EX4200 switches also include high availability features such as redundant, hot-swappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable, multi-blower fan trays to ensure maximum uptime.

"We're seeing more demand from small-to-medium-sized businesses for the types of solutions more commonly seen in large enterprises," said Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Service Layer Technology Business Group at Juniper Networks. "Our solutions are designed to be robust and scalable to meet the demands of even the most complex and demanding secure environments, including the Anchorage Museum which relies on a defense-in-depth design for the network that helps address the needs of employees and visitors alike."

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Juniper Networks EX4200 Ethernet switches, featuring Virtual Chassis technology, form the network core, with Juniper Networks EX3200 Ethernet switches in the access layer. The core is a 10 Mbps metro Ethernet fiber ring that supports the museum's virtualized server and storage environment. Juniper Networks J Series Services Routers are employed as border routers. The primary Internet connection is made through a Juniper Networks J2300 Services Router, which is also protected by Juniper Networks SSG Series Secure Services Gateways and delivers high-performance security.

The EX4200 line of Ethernet switches provides high-speed, carrier-class performance in a compact form factor. Virtual Chassis technology enables up to 10 EX4200 switches to be interconnected and operate as a single logical device, reducing management overhead and operational expenses. The EX4200 switches also include high availability features such as redundant, hot-swappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable, multi-blower fan trays to ensure maximum uptime.

The single rack-unit EX4200 and EX3200 switches are easy to deploy and manage, and both are powered by the field-proven Juniper Networks Junos(R) software, which delivers operational efficiency across Juniper switch and router products.

Juniper Networks J Series Services Routers deliver reliable connectivity with a powerful blend of high-performance networks and advanced services. J Series routers also leverage the modular Junos software and consolidate security, application optimization, and voice capabilities on a single, easy-to-manage platform.

Additionally, the Anchorage Museum replaced its IPsec VPN client software solution on devices with Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN Appliances, so employees have secure anywhere, anytime access to corporate resources from any device with a Web browser. The SSL VPN plays a vital role in allowing public remote access for users to the network.

"We're seeing more demand from small-to-medium-sized businesses for the types of solutions more commonly seen in large enterprises," said Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Service Layer Technology Business Group at Juniper Networks. "Our solutions are designed to be robust and scalable to meet the demands of even the most complex and demanding secure environments, including the Anchorage Museum which relies on a defense-in-depth design for the network that helps address the needs of employees and visitors alike."

About the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

The Anchorage Museum is the largest museum in Alaska, and one of the top 10 most visited attractions in the state. The museum's mission is to share and connect Alaska with the world through art, history and science. Coming in spring 2010: The Imaginarium Discovery Center and the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Learn more online at www.anchoragemuseum.org/.

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ESnet and Internet2 have both begun aggressive projects to pursue deployment of testbeds and eventual production deployment of 100GbE to support the growing data demands of scientific research. With these industry-leading partners, both Internet2 and ESnet are continuing to pursue their vision for 100GbE-capable research and education (R&E) networks.

Juniper's T1600 will support the industry's first 802.3ba compliant 100GbE router interface, which is also being demonstrated in Juniper's booth 1448. In conjunction with the TX Matrix Plus, the T1600 is designed to scale up to 25 terabits per second (Tbps) of total capacity.

"With 'Big Science' projects like the Large Hadron Collider expected to be generating data flows of 100Gbps as soon as 2010, it's clear that the world's scientific research and education community needs to move beyond groups of 10Gbps waves and be ready with 100GbE solutions in the very near term," said Kanaiya Vasani, vice president of product management, High-End Systems Business Unit, Juniper Networks. "As trends such as cloud computing and video continue to drive network traffic in all other industry and consumer sectors, service providers and other large network operators will require a new generation of scale--100 Gigabit Ethernet meets this need."

Internet2, in partnership with Level 3, operates an advanced nationwide network serving the U.S. research and education community, designed to seamlessly add capacity as its members' needs evolve. Through a unique and deep partnership, ESnet shares control and operation of the Internet2 optical infrastructure. Both networks have already experienced rapid growth as global collaborations continue to expand to nearly every research discipline, making the path towards 100GbE a natural next step.

"Just a year after our partners agreed to the challenge of building a 100GbE interoperable prototype, we are very pleased by the progress made with our collaborators on the path toward 100 Gigabit Ethernet that doesn't just demonstrate optics or switching, but combines the two in to a working IP and MPLS backbone for advanced science," said Rob Vietzke, Internet2 executive director of Network Services. "Many researchers in our community are already pushing the limits of 10Gbps technology with sustained flows reaching over 9Gbps for an individual researcher's workstation. Internet2 is committed to delivering capabilities to our members to ensure that our network meets their scientific requirements today and provides the right platform to support their science innovations well into the future. 100GbE is part of that future."

"Level 3 continues to work with leaders in the industry to drive toward a commercially viable 100GbE service architecture," said Jack Waters, chief technology officer for Level 3. "100 Gigabit Ethernet offers the promise of superior economics with greater network performance and scale to support our customers as they face ongoing bandwidth demand growth."

Infinera has been a leader in the move to 100GbE for several years. Infinera's photonic integrated circuits (PICs) integrate 100Gbps of optical capacity on a pair of chips and Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization architecture is designed to enable a wide range of services, including future 100GbE services, to be transported over today's optical infrastructure with speed and flexibility. At SC09, Infinera is demonstrating a pre-production 100 Gigabit Ethernet Module, designed to deliver 100GbE services in today's Infinera DTN. Infinera's next-generation PICs, designed with capacity of 400Gbps on a pair of chips, will enable significant increase in the capacity and scalability of optical networks.

"The research and education community is leading the industry in terms of applications that require large streams of data and highly scalable networks," commented Infinera Chief Technology Officer Drew Perkins. "With our digital architecture based on photonic integrated circuits, Infinera is uniquely positioned to deliver scalable, flexible, intelligent optical networks that can deliver and manage all that bandwidth easily and cost-effectively."

An Ixia test platform was used to generate and capture 100Gbps of test traffic. Ixia has been a leader in the development of 40Gbps and 100Gbps Ethernet standards, working closely with the IEEE 802.3ba task force. Ixia has been an active development partner, helping to bring Juniper's 100Gbps line card to market. Ixia's "K2" 100Gbps load module is used as a reference implementation to ensure that Juniper's interface conforms to industry standards and performs at line rate.

About 100 Gigabit Ethernet

100GbE is the next generation of Ethernet technology, and provides a 10x increase in scale over the 10GbE technologies most prevalent in today's networks. The higher speed is necessitated by growing network traffic, and will enable service providers and R&E networks to efficiently and cost-effectively support trends such as cloud computing, mega-data centers and data-intensive research projects. Internet2, for example, has seen data traffic on its network grow by 3,300% in ten years, and 100GbE will enable them to continue to meet the needs of its member community.

The IEEE is currently finalizing the 100GbE standard, with ratification targeted for mid-2010. The solutions demonstrated today are expected to be fully compliant with the standard when ratified.

About SC09

SC09, sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE Computer Society, offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce. This premier international conference includes a globally attended technical program, workshops, tutorials, an exhibit area, demonstrations and hands-on learning. The SC conference series is among Tradeshow Week magazine's Top 200 events. For more information on SC09, please visit http://sc09.supercomputing.org/.

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Visitors to SC09 are encouraged to visit the Juniper booth 1448, where test equipment will produce a visual representation that confirms 100Gbps line-rate transmission.

Additional information regarding each of the companies involved can be found below:

ESnet: http://www.es.net, SC09 booth 723 Infinera: http://www.infinera.com, SC09 booth 1444 Internet2: http://www.internet2.edu, SC09 booth 1355 Ixia: http://www.ixia.com Level 3 Communications: http://www.level3.com

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"We are committed to objectively testing networking solutions with the strictest methodology and were honored to be the first lab commissioned to evaluate these solutions," said Carsten Rossenhoevel, managing director at EANTC. "Our analysis confirmed Juniper's Junos Trio chipset is setting new standards for performance, services and scalability, while providing a significant improvement in power efficiency."

The completed tests from EANTC confirm the performance metrics of the MX480 3D Universal Edge Router, including a validated up to 1.4Tbit/s, 240Gbits/s per slot unidirectional, with throughput able to exceed one billion packets per second, in a compact sixth of a rack configuration. Additionally, services scale displayed 6,000 active Layer 3 VPNs and 6,000 active VPLS instances, as well as a 25.34 watts per 10GbE and 3.38 watts per gigabit of throughput in full configuration.

The chipset will be delivered in Juniper's new MX Series 3D routers, providing "Universal Edge" routing for business, residential and mobile services at massive scale on a single network.

Juniper's MX Series 3D products are available starting December 2009. The MX Series 3D 16-port 10GbE aggregation line card will be generally available to customers in December 2009, with additional MX Series 3D products coming throughout 2010.

The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral consultancy and test facilities for network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprise customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance testing for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, and Triple Play technologies and applications.

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