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Partner Solution Brief

Partner: Juniper Networks

Website: www.juniper.net
Partner Size: ~7800
Country or Region: Global
Industry: High Performance IP
Networking
Partner Profile: Juniper Networks
delivers innovative software, silicon, and
systems that transform the experience
and economics of networking for global
service providers, leading enterprises, and
public sector organizations. Our core
routers, switches, and security hardware
and software run the worlds largest and
most demanding global networks.

As enterprises continue to adopt VoIP and Unified

Communications (UC) to reduce costs and improve
productivity, they need a networking infrastructure
that can provide high quality of service, high
availability, and secure delivery of real-time UC traffic.
The combination of Junipers network infrastructure
and the Microsoft UC software provides best-in-class
delivery of business voice, data and video
communications for all customers.
Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager
of Services Layer Technologies Business Group at Juniper
BUSINESS NEED
Now more than ever, the corporate
network is a strategic business tool.
Unfortunately, many networks today
cant keep pace with the escalating
demands and risks that compromise
their effectiveness.
With Unified Communications (UC)
becoming an essential way of
conducting business, successful
deployments of applications such as
Microsoft Lync take advantage
of powerful networking
infrastructure to satisfy unique
requirements presented by UCthe
ultimate combination of presence,
messaging, video, conferencing, and
voice.

These stringent requirements

include:

Assured low latency, low jitter,

and low packet loss, while
providing adequate bandwidth
to guarantee predictable highdefinition video and audio
traffic.
Continuous network availability
throughout all locations at all
times.
High degree of scalability, ease
of deployment, and visibility.
Superior network security to
assure mobile and remote users
gain LAN-like quality over the
WAN across all locations.

In addition, controlling TCO is a key

requirement, where using a
common network infrastructure for
UC applications becomes a real
challenge.

SOLUTION

BENEFITS
Juniper solutions are certified
compatible with Lync Server 2010
and offer rich features to ensure a
high-quality UC deployment,
including:

Assured Quality of Experience

(QoE) to ensure voice, video, and
messaging take priority on the
network as needed by the user.
Processing media using
customized ASICs and dedicated
packet forwarding cores ensures
ultra-high performance. The
ability to enforce bandwidth
utilization assures proper
resources and eliminates loss of
priority packets.

High Availability of Lync Server

2010 through multi-homing and
redundancy of network
switches, routers, and services
gateways.
Optimized for Efficiency
including auto discovery of Lync
devices, which enables
automatic assignment of voice
VLANS and Quality of Service
(QoS) settings, and the
capability to optimize media
routing.
Superior Security from branch
firewalls that allow the direct
connection of media traffic to
roaming telecommuters for best

This solution brief is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY.
Document published November 2010

QoE and efficiency; and 802.1x

for authenticating devices.
Low Total Cost of Ownership
An independent study,
conducted by Forrester
Research, demonstrates that
through the use of Junos
Software and Juniper
switches/routers, companies
achieved an overall reduction in
costs for network operations
tasks, including planning and
provisioning, deployment, and
planned/unplanned network
events.