SRX Series IOC4 to IOC3 Replacement Service Datasheet

SRX Series IOC4 cards are moving to End-of-Life status. To allow customers to retain their investment in the SRX5000 line of Firewalls, Juniper recommends using an IOC3 card. The IOC3 cards provide the same line-rate performance and continue to secure the network and detect issues. To assist customers in this transition, Juniper Professional Service’s is offering a service to ensure that the network performs as desired during and after the IOC3 card transition.

As IOC4 cards move to End-of-Life status, Juniper is offering replacement service so that customers can retain their investment in Juniper Networks^® SRX5000 line of Firewalls and SPC cards. The packaged Professional Service is a post sales project that assists in transitioning to IOC3 cards, which have the same line-rate performance as the IOC4 cards.

This service helps organizations transition to the IOC3 cards without network redesign while minimizing both the time and effort to complete the transition. The key components of this service are Discovery Workshop, Configuration Review, and Network Migration Plan. Additional services, such as Network Migration Plan Lab Validation, Post Maintenance-Window Technical Assistance, and Post-Migration Assistance can be added. Like all Professional Services offered by Juniper, this service has the goal of enabling organizations to utilize the technology offered by Juniper in the most time efficient and risk adverse way possible. 

Juniper consultant will review the network architecture with the customer, go over the existing network requirements, discuss future plans, and verify the functionality of SRX Series IOC3 cards that will be replacing SRX Series IOC4 cards.

After reviewing and confirming the network design, the Juniper consultant will review the configurations and make sure they match the SRX IOC3 interfaces and its relevant configurations.

Juniper consultant will review the success criteria test plan provided by the customer related to the SRX IOC3 cards and develop a Network Migration Plan, as well as recommend a process to transition the solution to the IOC3 cards.

Juniper consultant will validate the Network Migration Plan in a test environment using the customer’s specific configuration. This task will validate the process with a successful commit and reboot of the system with all components and interfaces up and running as expected. Customers will receive a validation report with the outcome of the validation test.