Customer Success Story
Turning 200 wireless hotspots into the hottest spot in music.
The network infrastructure is the backbone of operations at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Besides managing all of the video surveillance, credit card terminals, payment systems, and IT systems that control the shows, it also provides Web surfing for its 100,000 festival goers.
For the latest festival, wireless hotspots were being deployed across the site for uninterrupted Internet access at the latest festival and, combined with demanding content streaming requirements, it required a 10-fold network capacity increase.
Overview
| Company | Roskilde Festival |
| Industry | Media and Entertainment |
| Products used | EX Series, MX Series, SRX Series, Junos OS |
| Region | EMEA |
Business Challenge
The goal was to overhaul an expensive but underperforming festival network while keeping costs to a minimum, while increasing bandwidth, and providing a secure and reliable MPLS network that would stand the test of time.
Business Solution
The network upgrade included EX Series Ethernet Switches, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, SRX Series Services Gateways, and the Junos operating system.
Business Results
The Juniper network delivered the required 10-fold increase in network capacity, serviced over 200 wireless hotspots, enabled a rich content experience to be streamed from the festival, and introduced a future-ready, flexible infrastructure at a competitive price point.
The Products
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.
With a robust portfolio of SDN-enabled routers, the MX Series provides industry-leading system capacity, density, security, and performance with unparalleled longevity.
Protect your network edge, data center, and cloud applications with Juniper’s next-generation physical, virtual, and containerized firewalls, all managed via Juniper Security Director Cloud.