Routing

Cisco Systems

Featuring a comprehensive portfolio, Cisco routers can help you build a resilient foundation for business success by creating a more intelligent, responsive, and integrated network based on adaptive and agile technologies.

Cisco routers use an integrated systems approach to reduce operating costs and complexity and deliver exceptional performance and investment protection. With products designed for the Branch, WAN, and Service Providers, Cisco offers a highly scalable and reliable Router platform for any scenario.

Having a network platform that facilitates technological innovation and supports critical services is an essential business requirement. Cisco routers can help your business build the foundation for an intelligent, self-defending network that features best-in-class security services and advanced routing technologies.

A systems approach begins with a single, resilient platform such as the Cisco integrated services routers. A systems approach combines packaging with intelligent services within and between services, and weaves voice, security, routing, and application services together, so that processes become more automated and more intelligent. The results are pervasive security in the network and applications; higher QoS for data, voice, and video traffic; increased time to productivity; and better use of network resources.

Benefit by Integrating Applications
Businesses today want their networks to support all forms of media, as well as new wireless and wired devices.
To solve these challenges, networks must contain intelligence, and integrate advanced applications into an adaptable, pervasive, and collaborative system. This approach provides:

• Enhanced productivity through increased video-based collaboration and rich-media services, and optimized application delivery
• Integrated security, where the network becomes the point of control for preventing and responding to security threats
• Mobility that enables workforce to accelerate decision making and collaborate in real time regardless of location

Improve Processes Through a Systems Approach
A systems approach combines packaging with intelligent applications within and between services. It weaves voice, security, routing, and application services together, so that processes become more automated and intelligent. The results include:

• Pervasive security in the network and applications
• Higher quality of service (QoS) for data, voice, and video traffic
• Increased time to productivity
• Better use of network resources

This approach begins with a single, resilient platform created by Cisco routers. They give organizations of all sizes fast, secure access to today's mission-critical applications, as well as a foundation for growth. Cisco routers provide:

• An integrated systems approach to embedded services that speeds application deployment and reduces costs and complexity
• Embedded security and voice services in a single routing system
• The industry's first portfolio engineered for secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, and video services
• Unparalleled services performance and investment protection

Gain a Foundation for an Intelligent Network
In addition to providing a platform that helps optimize the delivery of applications and communications, Cisco routers:

• Deliver the lowest total cost of ownership and the highest return on investment. The Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) reduces operational costs by 50 to 75 percent per year
• Provide a framework for wireless LAN solutions to use the tools, knowledge, and resources of the wired infrastructure
• Support multiservice solutions at branches, to deliver performance, scalability, availability, and reliability
• Feature industry-leading services densities, bandwidth, availability, and performance options for configuration flexibility

Juniper Networks

Comprehensive, scalable, and secure routing solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of both enterprises and service providers.

They provide reliable and scalable routing platforms, including the carrier class MX-series, remote branch J-series, multiservice edge M-series portfolio and the nonstop forwarding and routing T-series families. All platforms run on one common operating system – Junos.

The modular and fault-protected Junos delivers high levels of resiliency and stability. In traditional enterprise routers, any small bug can quickly turn into a larger problem. In Junos, each software module runs independently and is unable to impact other areas. Other features include next-generation CLI for accurate configuration.

With continuous systems, Juniper Networks meets this challenge head-on and introduces a new standard of availability for IP networking—self-aware network devices that are always alert to potential issues and always ready to initiate repair.

Considering the critical role that IP plays in today’s networks, Juniper Networks had a significant advantage when the company developed and deployed its first systems: TCP/IP was already a global standard. In fact, when Junos OS was introduced in 1998, it was the first network operating system designed specifically for IP routing. Ever since those early days, Juniper has maintained an impeccable reputation for reliability and innovation. Stable service and support are the touchstones of Juniper engineering.

With the advent of continuous systems, Juniper raises the bar for IP/MPLS networking, and introduces software, equipment, and services that keep networks up and running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Juniper has devoted extensive resources to developing continuous systems so that customers can be assured of nonstop network operations, even during Routing Engine (RE) restarts and system upgrades.

At Juniper Networks, continuous systems is a culture, not a single feature, protocol, or product. Continuous systems means addressing all areas that could potentially cause service degradation and outages. It’s about a complete, all-around approach that looks at potential causes of problems and finds ways to mitigate them to maintain service-level agreements (SLAs). Rather than a set of features or a box, continuous systems considers a network device’s redundancy, architecture, and operations with broad functions and capabilities contributing to service continuity.

Switching

Cisco Systems

Turn Your Network into a Strategic Asset
Cisco switching solutions are the cornerstone of the Borderless Network Architecture. Extensible platforms and intelligent services combine to deliver extraordinary business value to networked organizations of all sizes and across all industries.

Find out how switching solutions and Borderless Networks can provide you with a significant return on your investment. Read the Forrester TEI Assessment and use the associated calculator to determine your potential savings.

Deliver a Positive User Experience
Today's users are mobile and visual. They are internal workers and external partners and customers. Regardless of location, application, or information stream, Cisco switching solutions deliver a consistent high-quality network experience to connected users. This increases end user productivity, satisfaction ratings, and business system interaction and returns.

Superior Access and Service Levels
In our networked business world, rapid, reliable access to any resource anywhere, and at anytime, is mandatory. Cisco switching solutions deliver maximum uptime, high throughput, rapid deployment, enhanced access, and automated operations. Cisco's expert design guidance and support services help you meet your advertised network performance.

Reduce Energy Costs and Resource Consumption
Cisco switching solutions offer a wide range of green IT options for sustainable benefits. These include:

Power-saving designs

• StackPower technology
• Optimized video and virtualization services
• Extended service life

Cisco EnergyWise switching software extends energy management to both IT and business facilities (HVAC, lighting). Cisco EnergyWise can reduce your energy costs by up to 30 percent, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint.

Accommodate Business and IT Shifts
Business processes and goals are always under pressure to improve. Cisco switching solutions allow you to act quickly on new business requirements. Scalable performance, integrated services, and flexible configurations offer continued secure, reliable, and simplified communications in times of change.

Implement Security and Compliance
Secure access is critical in a world where threats are ubiquitous. Cisco switching solutions are designed to lock down information, authorize user movements, and mitigate threats in many forms. VLANs, TrustSec, MACsec, firewall, intrusion prevention, and Control Plane Policing are just a few of the essential security capabilities in Cisco switches.

Deliver Superior Investment Protection
Cisco switching solutions as designed to serve your organization now and in the future. Scalable, service-rich Catalyst and Nexus switches adapt to new IT and business requirements. Incremental upgrades can be performed using technologies as switch supervisors, service modules, StackWise, software-based services, and interface components that can be reused or easily replaced.

HP Systems

HP is changing the rules of networking with a full portfolio of standards-based, integrated solutions and services developed specifically to solve the complexities of the extended enterprise.

HP is changing the rules of networking with a full portfolio of high-performance, standards-based products, solutions, and services. These offerings are secure, energyefficient, cost-saving, and developed specifically to simplify the complexities of networking for all customers, from the largest enterprise to the smallest emerging business.

By investing in HP’s best-in-class technology, customers can build high-performance, secure, and efficiently managed network environments that are flexible, interoperable with other networking and computing technology, and highly cost-effective. And integrated as part of the HP Converged Infrastructure and supported by HP and partner service capabilities, HP networking solutions deliver application and business services across the extended enterprise to meet any business demand.

HP Network Support Services
HP Network Support Services offer a range of comprehensive proactive and reactive services to boost the availability and performance of your network. Available as standardized, prepackaged HP Care Pack Services or Contractual Services, these easy-to-purchase services offer a wide range of service-level options to manage the networking infrastructure. HP Network Support Services reduce the risk of unplanned downtime, improve the potential of your technology investment with improved performance, and free up resources for business innovation.

Juniper Networks

The EX Series Ethernet Switches deliver high-performance, carrier-class solutions built to meet the needs of today's converged branch-office, campus, and data center networks. From, access to core, the Juniper EX series switches offer network access from the edge to the core, including Power over Ethernet, Virtual Chassis and 10GE scalability with the flexibility of the same reliable JUNOS operating system of the M series routers.

High-Performance Business Requirements
Today’s high-performance businesses demand a high-performance network infrastructure that provides fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications that drive business processes. Switches deployed in regional offices, campuses and data centers enable these business processes by connecting users to applications, delivering everything from traditional file services to telephony, messaging, presence, video conferencing and Web services. To fill this critical role, network infrastructure switches must:

• Be highly available to ensure uninterrupted, uncompromised delivery of business processes in the event of failures and outages
• Support unified data, voice, messaging, presence and video communications on a single IP infrastructure
• Integrate security functions traditionally implemented in appliances to defend against malicious, sophisticated attacks and optimize application response times
• Deliver operational excellence by delivering consistency and simplicity across the infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership

Unfortunately, most contemporary switches don’t meet these requirements. Designed and installed over several years, these switches—deployed in multiple layers across the network—fall short of delivering the performance, scalability and wire-speed
port densities that today’s converged networks demand. Multiple switch layers add considerable cost, delay and complexity to the network, which in turn drives capital and operational expenses ever higher.

Enterprises need a new approach—a strategic, innovative solution that allows them to spend less on their network infrastructure and more on revenue-generating and productivity-enhancing technologies that help them gain a competitive edge.

Juniper Networks offers such a solution—a new class of Ethernet switches for the enterprise, designed specifically to meet the demands of today’s high-performance businesses. The Juniper Networks® EX Series Ethernet Switches are changing the game, delivering the next generation of switching technology for today’s—and tomorrow’s—networks.

With the EX Series, businesses can deploy a cost-effective family of switches that delivers the high availability (HA), unified communications, integrated security and operational excellence they need today, while providing a platform for supporting the requirements of tomorrow.

Welcome to the future of enterprise switching.