Customer Success Story
Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team
After a 61-year hiatus from the world’s fastest motorsport, Aston Martin re-entered Formula One™ in 2021 with the lofty goal of contending for a Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Formula One World Championship™ by 2026. Leaving nothing to chance, the team commissioned a new technology campus at its Silverstone, UK, headquarters. Aston Martin F1® Team recognized Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform as the clear choice when building out its brand-new campus and upgrading its trackside network, which must travel with the team from race to race around the globe.
Overview
| Company | Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Region | EMEA |
300
Gigabytes of data generated per race
400,000
Square feet of indoor space on campus
30
Engineers inside Mission Control on race day
Overview
As one would imagine, researching, designing, manufacturing, testing, improving, and racing a competitive Formula One challenger generates almost unfathomable amounts of data. Even more important than the quantity of data generated is the speed at which it must be accessed by team members to ensure fast, informed, timely decisions. Additionally, the trackside network connecting the pit wall and race garage teams must carry mission-critical telemetry data generated by the cars, ensuring that drivers and engineers can monitor the car’s performance.
A modern network for a modern racing team
Aston Martin F1 Team is using a Campus Fabric Core Distribution architecture with a spine-and-leaf fabric for performance, resilience, and scalability that can support an EVPN-VXLAN overlay network. Seamlessly extending the factory network to trackside operations was a strategic undertaking entrusted to Juniper based on rigorous proof-of-concept design sessions.
Juniper’s design avoids legacy Layer 2 protocols that can impede straightforward scaling, allowing future traffic demands to be absorbed by the network without interrupting operations or undermining performance. It also provides much faster network convergence in the event of a failure, minimizing impact to users and applications.
115
Access points covering the technology campus
Zero
Single points of failure in the race garages
Podium-worthy performance, simplicity, automation, and resiliency
Overall, Aston Martin F1 Team’s networks are predicated on performance, scale, and resilience in pursuit of exceptional user experiences, business agility, and critical World Championship points.
The team leverages the Mist AI microservices cloud to rapidly deliver new features, updates, and vulnerability patches with no downtime. Mist Wi-Fi Assurance enables the team to leverage AI, ML, and automation to proactively measure client experience and optimize Wi-Fi performance for users and devices on campus, in the race garages, and Aston Martin F1 Team-owned hospitality areas trackside.
Mist Wired Assurance uses automated workflows to greatly simplify the provisioning and management of the QFX and EX switches across Aston Martin F1 Team’s networks. Juniper technology is also playing a role in Aston Martin F1 Team’s bold environmental ambitions. “Our technology must be sustainable and TCO certified. It needs to have a minimal carbon footprint and it must work with our building management solution,” says Aston Martin F1 Team’s CIO, Clare Lansley. “And when we go racing, we love that Juniper’s devices are lighter and create less freight weight, which reduces our carbon footprint and helps enable our journey to sustainability.”
Published August 2024