Control plane scaling platform maximizes scale, efficiency and control

Juniper Networks Inc. advanced the economics of networking with the introduction of JCS 1200, which is said to be the industry’s first high-performance Control Plane Scaling Platform that features independent scale of control and forwarding plane resources to help maximize service growth, operational efficiencies and control.

As service providers seek to deliver multiple services concurrently across a converged IP infrastructure, each service must contend for a fixed amount of control plane capacity in the underlying routing infrastructure. The JCS 1200 addresses this challenge by providing a standalone, dedicated platform for control plane resources, hosting multiple Routing Engines, which provides significantly enhanced scale, control and efficiency.

The JCS 1200 is a 12-rack unit (RU) chassis that provides 12 Routing Engine (RE) slots and connects to Juniper Networks T-series routers via redundant Ethernet connections. The dedicated RE chassis eliminates the need to compromise expensive, revenue-generating router slots for control plane scaling—all 40G and 100G slots on the routers are preserved for forwarding. By enabling service-specific virtualization, the JCS 1200 can improve network efficiency by consolidating equipment. Moreover, by simplifying and shortening the pre-deployment testing process, the JCS can allow service providers to reduce time-to-market by several weeks or months, resulting in enhanced potential for accelerated revenue and customer growth.