Juniper Networks Unveils 5G and IoT-Ready Routing Platform

Juniper Networks have announced their new MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform as well as some software innovations that provide increased programmability, performance, and flexibility for fast service deployment in the cloud economy for years to come. Using their experience as a global leader in cloud services, Juniper is unveiling the fifth generation of the MX platform, which is now the industry’s only platform that combines the best of software and hardware-based networking to equip carrier, cloud, and enterprise customers for the evolving demands of next-gen services delivery.

Service providers are now at a point where the cost of operating a complex network is hampering their ability to monetize them. With more and more influx of machine data coming from IoT sensors, networks will become overextended if they remain static, particularly as current infrastructures have become too complex and expensive to cyber threats for service providers to manage the scale and agility required for new services.

To cope with the challenges and usher in the next generation of routing for the coming wave of 5G, IoT, and business services, Juniper designed its MX Series 5G Universal Routing platform with new silicon for near-infinite feature programmability and hardware-accelerated 5G Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) for unparalleled performance. – PC Mag