Streamlining Data Center Network Deployments with Juniper Validated Designs Solution Brief
Deploy more quickly and confidently, improve outcomes, and save valuable time
Discover how Juniper Validated Designs (JVDs) for the data center can help you design and deploy an optimal networking solution
THE CHALLENGE
Navigating the complex landscape of data center deployments
Businesses need fast and reliable on-premises data center networks that perform like the cloud—supporting both traditional application storage and AI workloads. However, as operations grow more complex and automation becomes critical, companies face challenges managing diverse platforms efficiently, shortening timelines, ensuring scalable growth, avoiding vendor lock-in, reducing operational costs, and maintaining secure, high-performance infrastructure—all amid a persistent shortage of skilled IT professionals.
THE CAPABILITIES YOU NEED
JVDs are comprehensive, end-to-end blueprints for deploying Juniper solutions in your network
Fully tested, well-documented data center network designs
Organizations are adopting modern, automated data centers for greater network agility, visibility, and reliability. JVDs for the data center describe standards-based network fabrics and intent-based automation to assure the simplified design, deployment, and operation of a resilient data center network.
- Scalability
Validated designs are built out based on customer input and requirements and are tailored to meet specific common use cases at maximum scale.
- Reliability
Because JVDs are prescriptive designs used by multiple customers across various industries, all JVD customers benefit from lessons learned through lab testing and real-world deployments.
- Velocity
JVDs have clearly defined performance profiles to help you make informed decisions about your network, resulting in up to 9x faster deployments.
- Predictability
JVDs undergo a rigorous testing framework to achieve validation with ongoing, automated verification in each new release.
THE ANSWER
JVDs for the data center
JVDs for the data center offer a transformative approach to data center network design, deployment, and operation by addressing the challenges you face while delivering substantial business value and lower risk.
Current JVDs for the data center:
AI Data Center Network with Juniper Apstra, NVIDIA GPUs, and WEKA Storage
Achieve fast innovation, flexibility, and optimized AI fabric networks.
Juniper Scale-Out Stateful Firewall and Source NAT for Enterprise
Boost MX platforms with scalable architecture and service flexibility.
Collapsed Data Center Fabric with Juniper Apstra
Simplify configuration and management for faster and more efficient networking.
3-Stage Data Center Design with Juniper Apstra
Explore validated design for efficient data center fabric management.
Data Center Next-Generation Firewall Use Case
Safeguard your data center with proven security features.
Support seamless interconnect of EVPN-MPLS with EVPN-VXLAN.
HOW IT WORKS
The transformative power of data center JVDs
JVDs offer a robust solution to the challenges of data center design and deployment, providing a clear pathway to enhanced operational efficiency, strategic alignment, and secure platforms.
AI data center network design:
3-stage architecture: lean spines, server leaf switches, and DCI capable border leaf switches:
Technologies and solutions used and tested:
Juniper Apstra
RoCEv2
WEKA storage
NVIDIA GPUs
EVPN/VXLAN
DCQCN (inc. PFC and ECN)
Clos
ECMP (Equal Cost Multiple Path)
DLB (Dynamic Load Balancing)
eBGPDSCP / PCP
Juniper QFX / ACX / PTX / SRX / vSRX / MX
CORE CAPABILITIES
JVDs minimize operational costs while reducing your IT burden and accelerating time to value
Reduced risk of errors
With pre-tested blueprints created by expert engineers, JVDs minimize the likelihood of costly mistakes and challenges during design and deployment, ensuring reliability from the outset.
Enhanced flexibility
By leveraging a multivendor approach, data center JVDs empower organizations to choose best-of-breed technologies that align with their specific requirements, avoiding vendor lock-in.
Cost optimization
JVDs can substantially reduce operational costs by optimizing resource utilization and minimizing downtime through efficient management practices.
Scalability and future proofing
Designed with scalability in mind, JVDs facilitate seamless expansion as business needs evolve, ensuring that infrastructures remain agile and responsive.
Integrated security solutions
Incorporating next-generation security features within the design framework helps safeguard critical assets while maintaining the highest performance across the network.
OUR ADVANTAGE
JVDs: faster, smarter, more secure
The JVD program develops solutions that reduce complexity for networking teams, helping them:
- Qualify solutions faster with tested architectures for building networks with well-documented capabilities and product/software release guidance
- Reduce risk with products, features, and topologies based on best practices and common use cases
- Achieve predictable, repeatable results with designs that have been validated at scale to ensure you will have faster, more reliable deployments
WHY JUNIPER
The NOW Way to Network
Juniper Networks believes that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver exceptional, highly secure, and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.
MORE INFORMATION
Learn more about JVDs for data center
To explore current JVDs for the data center, visit https://www.juniper.net/documentation/validated-designs/us/en/data-center