Key Component of Juniper’s SDN Strategy

Junos Space is a critical component of our SDN strategy as it

provides a centralized management plane for a single point-of-

contact into the network and a common management platform for

managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs.

The Junos Space Network Management Platform and the Junos

Space Management Applications are all accessible through a

northbound Representational State Transfer (REST)-based

Application Programming Interface (API). These open APIs provide

core building blocks for new innovation, with no need to build

solutions from scratch.

They also provide access to all Junos-based devices, serving as a

single entry point that abstracts your network to enable you to

manage, monitor, control and gather insight across your entire

network infrastructure. This enables operators to use their existing

Operations/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) deployments and

tap into the rich functionality of both the Junos Space Network

Management Platform and the Management Applications. The

programmability, centralization, and customization aspects of Junos

Space are important as network providers begin to embrace SDN

architectures in their networks.

Automate and Simplify the Network with the Junos Space

Network Management Platform

Junos Space Network Management Platform provides

comprehensive element management of Juniper devices. No other

vendor can manage Juniper devices to the depth and extent of

Junos Space. With the Junos Space Network Management

Platform, you get broad FCAPS capability, same day support for

new devices and Junos releases, a task-specific user interface, and

northbound APIs to easily integrate into existing NMS or OSS/BSS

deployments.

Junos Space Network Management Platform uses multilayered

network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and

the simplicity of a point-and-click user interface to help network

operators in enterprise and service provider organizations scale

their operations, reduce operational complexity, and enable new

applications and services to be brought to market quickly.

With this platform, you get a unified approach for managing Juniper

infrastructure and designing/deploying new services. Junos Space

offers a centralized network management and orchestration

solution to manage both network devices and services through a

single pane of glass for real-time visibility. This means one sign on,

one user interface, one location to manage routers, switches, and

security devices.

Additionally, you scale your network easily with zero-day support of

new devices and operating systems with a schema driven data base,

without having to upgrade the platform. With Junos Space, you get

a highly scalable platform with one cluster (six nodes running in a

fabric configuration) being able to manage the complete network

with up to 25,000 devices.

The Junos Space platform is architected from the ground up and is

based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It uses industry-

standard technologies to provide an enhanced user experience,

massive application transparent scale, high availability, and feature

velocity. The Junos Space platform provides a single abstracted

network model across Juniper’s networking infrastructure, and it

extends this to third parties through standards-based

Representational State Transfer (RESTful) APIs. The use of a

standards-based Device Management Interface (DMI), an XML

schema-driven device access API, zero day support for new

devices, and a plug-and-play application environment allows in-

service device and software upgrades. Users can access the Junos

Space platform functionality using a simple Web 2.0 graphical user

interface (GUI), which uses persona-based workflows and

progressive disclosure to enable operator-centric and scope-specific

visibility and control.

Figure 1: Job Management.

Junos Space Datasheet

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