Juniper Ethernet Switches Target BYOD, Cloud Environments

August 13, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches aimed at helping enterprises deal with the increasing demand for better and faster access to cloud services and applications such as unified communications and virtual desktop infrastructures.

Juniper’s new EX4600 switches, announced Aug. 13, are open and scalable, and offer high performance in a small and cost-effective form factor, according to company officials. The switches also leverage Juniper’s Open Converged Framework (OCF), an approach to networking introduced by the company in June that calls for using open, published interfaces to enable the convergence of wired and wireless networks from different vendors…


OCF, which is part of Juniper’s larger push around what officials call the "high-IQ enterprise network,"  is driven by the rapidly changing data center environment, where organizations must be able to manage a more mobile workforce, a rapidly growing number of mobile devices demand access to the network and the new types of applications that are running across them. The EX4600 switches are designed to handle the higher density in campus environments, according to company officials…

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