Customer Success Story

Finnish provider heals an ailing infrastructure with an ultra-reliable network for healthcare

Istekki's goal was to build a carrier-grade, low-latency MPLS network, so it looked for a vendor with a proven track record. Some of the provider’s own networking experts had confidence that Juniper could deliver, based on previous experience working with Juniper solutions.

Istekki is the only company in Finland focused on providing information and communications technology (ICT) applications to the public healthcare sector. Owned by its customers’ municipalities and their strategic partners, the company employs 300 professionals in ICT and medical technology.

Overview

Company Istekki
Industry Healthcare
Products used MX80,  MX480,  MX240,  MX960,  QFX5100,  EX4300 Multigigabit
Region EMEA
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"With the excellent support we received from Cygate and from Juniper’s local experts, we now have a quite large, geographically dispersed MPLS network which reliably delivers mission-critical software applications to hospitals from our own data centers."
Reijo Kontkanen Director, Istekki

Business Challenge

Istekki needed to replace two older networks with a next-generation MPLS network to support its managed services offerings across Finland, and build a new, highly secure data center infrastructure that could operate 24x7 without outages.

Business Solution

Istekki used Juniper MX80, MX240, and MX480 Routers for the MPLS network. In the new data center, MX960 Routers provide a simple, open, and smart MetaFabric™ architecture. Juniper Networks EX4300 Ethernet Switches perform network aggregation, complementing Juniper Networks QFX5100 Ethernet Switches in the core.

Business Results

Istekki now has a network and data center infrastructure that ensures its customers' critical medical environments are operational 24x7, supports more medical applications and equipment, and has significantly higher performance and lower latency than the previous network.

"We were amazed by the agility and capacity of our new network. We feel that now we have a future-proof platform to build new services on. Juniper may not be the biggest networking vendor in terms of size, but for us it’s by far the best."
Reijo Kontkanen Director, Istekki

The Products

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MX Series Universal Routing Platforms

With a robust portfolio of SDN-enabled routers, the MX Series provides industry-leading system capacity, density, security, and performance with unparalleled longevity.

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QFX Series Switches

QFX network switches deliver industry-leading throughput and scalability, a comprehensive routing stack, the open programmability of Junos OS, and the broadest set of EVPN-VXLAN and IP fabric capabilities. Juniper offers a wide range of switches for data center spine and leaf switches, campus distribution and core, or data center gateway and interconnect.

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EX Series Switches

The EX Series Ethernet Switches are cloud-ready, high-performance access and aggregation/core layer switches designed for enterprise branch, campus, and data center networks. Wired access networks don’t have to be complex—you can reduce risk and cost without compromising performance, quality, and innovation.