Silicon Built for the Future: Juniper Optimizes Silicon for Edge and Core Network Deployments

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00:08 hello everyone thank you for joining

00:09 today and my name is sally bayman i am

00:11 vice president of marketing at juniper

00:13 networks and today we're going to talk

00:15 about our latest uh generation of custom

00:19 silicon innovations designed for the

00:21 world's next generation networks we're

00:24 going to discuss juniper strategy

00:26 focused on purpose-built silicon

00:29 optimized for the very diverse and

00:31 demanding challenges of different points

00:34 in the network

00:35 and why that's needed now more than ever

00:37 before and we're also going to share

00:39 some of the groundbreaking capabilities

00:41 of the new silicon innovations along

00:43 with a series of new products that we're

00:46 introducing the markets starting today

00:48 and joining me today to discuss this

00:50 exciting topic is brendan gibbs the

00:52 leader of our automated one solutions

00:55 business brendan always a pleasure and

00:57 thank you for joining

00:59 hey sally thanks for having me i'm

01:00 thrilled to be here

01:02 fantastic and um and brandon i will set

01:04 a little bit of context for this

01:06 discussion because it's quite exciting

01:08 we know that networks have become a

01:10 vital business enabler

01:12 particularly in this highly connected

01:14 global economy you know pretty much any

01:17 relevant business process today is

01:19 enabled by network technology in some

01:21 way and it's also where service provider

01:23 revenues are minted and as such we in

01:26 particular place pace a place that pay

01:29 very close attention to any factors

01:32 driving the evolution of the networks

01:35 and one thing we can say particularly

01:36 for service provider networks is change

01:38 is constant

01:40 we see the emergence of new services we

01:42 talk about ar vr iot

01:46 smart cities and of course 5g

01:48 deployments enabling new services some

01:50 of which we don't even know about yet

01:52 and of course the pandemic also

01:54 highlighted continued change

01:56 and the need to plan for not just the

01:58 known but also the unknown

02:01 we also see continued exponential growth

02:03 in traffic from digitalization from

02:06 cloudification

02:08 work from home video growth you name it

02:10 and that's driving increased speeds

02:13 increased throughput and bandwidth

02:15 demands across the entire network

02:17 and then thirdly increased expectations

02:20 from network subscribers

02:22 both in terms of a secure experience as

02:25 well as a delightful service experience

02:28 and we know you know service providers

02:29 are making decisions today that have to

02:32 carry them for the next five ten plus

02:35 years so they have to place their bets

02:37 and the choices they're making now have

02:39 to support whatever's coming their way

02:41 in the future

02:43 so with that as the backdrop let's kind

02:45 of discuss how these trends are driving

02:48 the evolution of both service provider

02:51 and hyper scale and network

02:52 architectures

02:54 and let me start brendan by posing you

02:56 know this is a perfect storm

02:58 you know continued exponential growth of

03:00 traffic new services security concerns

03:03 etc

03:04 how is that shaping the evolution of

03:06 network architectures and in particular

03:08 the core of the network and the provider

03:10 multi-service edge

03:12 thanks ali you know i really think those

03:14 are vastly dissimilar requirements and

03:16 one of the strategies that juniper has

03:18 employed to target those is really to

03:21 have the right tool for the job

03:23 because i i think what you'll see when

03:24 you look at the core

03:26 is that you have just a massive amount

03:28 of bandwidth everything it's aggregated

03:30 and transported through the core and so

03:33 sheer bandwidth is going to be paramount

03:35 but also

03:36 bandwidth per power so it is essentially

03:39 the the most efficient ratio of power

03:41 utilization for the capacity offered

03:43 that's a critical component the

03:44 customers really care about and then you

03:47 care about other things like being

03:48 secure

03:49 having accurate telemetry counters etc

03:52 but fundamentally core is marked

03:55 primarily by

03:57 raw bandwidth with the ability to kind

03:58 of have things at right like maxsec

04:01 security at right encounters at rate

04:03 and security filters at rate etc

04:06 in contrast the edge is incredibly

04:09 dynamic um as you said there's

04:12 really a huge growth in not only

04:14 bandwidth but also subscribers uh i mean

04:17 let's be honest i'm working from home

04:19 right now it's expected that the work

04:21 from home scenario is going to persist

04:23 even when the pandemic is over let's

04:25 hope that the pandemic is over pretty

04:27 darn soon

04:28 there may be as much as a third of all

04:30 workers that remain working from home on

04:33 a permanent basis

04:34 so what this means is network traffic

04:36 patterns and architectures are shifted

04:38 almost permanently they were abrupt at

04:40 the beginning of the pandemic and

04:42 they're they're a permanent shift now

04:44 this means increased growth of broadband

04:47 remote access essentially a consumer

04:49 broadband internet high-speed uh

04:52 services with bng

04:53 uh continued broadband uh service

04:56 delivery for business services because

04:58 people are now gonna need to access

05:00 their enterprise public cloud enterprise

05:02 you know private workloads over vpn

05:05 constructs but from their home

05:07 so you now see a model where you need

05:09 massive bandwidth to the home tons of

05:11 simultaneous subscribers and convergence

05:14 of services you'll have essentially on

05:16 one edge box

05:17 b g for consumer broadband

05:19 business vpn for enterprise connectivity

05:22 and mobile backhaul because people want

05:24 the same experience over a 5g mobility

05:28 construct as they also have at their

05:30 home over wireline broadband

05:32 so

05:33 the edge is really then marked by a

05:35 significant

05:37 multi-service aggregation point and

05:39 where the core is all about bandwidth

05:41 and a few services at that bandwidth

05:43 rate

05:44 the edge is marked by a massive growth

05:47 of simultaneous logical scale

05:50 for essentially a service construct for

05:52 multiple simultaneous services uh such

05:55 as business and residential and mobile

05:57 at the same time

05:59 and then service uh

06:01 additions basically tacked onto that

06:03 such as for each logical service

06:05 construct you need to have massive scale

06:07 for qos encounters and security and

06:10 tunnels etc so vastly dissimilar

06:13 requirements and that actually leads all

06:15 the way down into the data plane into

06:17 the silicon engineering for what you

06:19 might require for each

06:21 where you might need tons of memory with

06:23 reasonably high bandwidth for the edge

06:26 you might need less much less memory for

06:28 the core

06:29 but

06:30 really the cutting edge innovation on

06:32 how much raw capacity you can drive

06:34 through the chips so and it's

06:36 essentially like uh you know

06:38 proverbially pushing in on a balloon

06:39 you're pushing on a balloon in one area

06:41 and it pushes out the duck another area

06:43 you can't keep growing logical

06:44 subscriber count and memory databases at

06:47 the same time they're growing raw

06:48 bandwidth so you have to have a

06:50 trade-off you need to make compromises

06:52 and so that's why the network

06:54 architecture demands dissimilar

06:56 treatment and that's why juniper has

06:58 offered multiple different silicon

06:59 offerings to

07:00 know essentially reacts to those

07:02 dissimilar requirements

07:05 makes total sense and i'm glad you

07:07 brought up the you know silicon uh

07:09 designs because you know to be honest

07:12 with you brandon we've seen quite a few

07:14 network silicon announcements recently

07:16 and you know if you were to believe

07:18 those announcements you would assume

07:21 that a single

07:22 silicon design is enough to meet these

07:25 you know uniquely diverging and and uh

07:28 challenging requirements of the core and

07:30 edge

07:31 you've got cisco with silicon one and

07:33 you've got nokia with fp5

07:35 you know if i was to ask you what's your

07:37 reaction and if you can touch upon

07:39 obviously

07:41 you know the specifics with juniper as

07:42 well but what's your reaction to these

07:44 announcements

07:45 well i'm reminded of a quote that's

07:47 attributed to henry ford which is uh he

07:50 said back in the day you can have any

07:51 color you want as long as it's black

07:54 and that's kind of how i feel some of

07:56 the competitive offerings are which is

07:58 that they purport to address all the

08:00 customer requirements

08:02 but only if it's black only if it fits

08:04 into what they've already offered and it

08:06 becomes a one-size-fits-all type of

08:08 approach or uh you know

08:10 jack-of-all-trades so to speak but we

08:12 believe that fundamentally leads to

08:14 being master of none it fundamentally

08:16 means that you try to have uh that one

08:18 size fits all approach which means that

08:20 you're not able to address more of the

08:22 corner cases uh because you're you're

08:24 trying to speak to the to the mass

08:26 audience and nobody gets served properly

08:30 so what

08:31 sorry what are we going to do yeah no go

08:33 ahead i keep going

08:34 well what we were going to uh what i was

08:36 going to say is essentially what would

08:38 juniper believes again as i said before

08:41 is to have a fundamentally optimized

08:43 solution and so we have taken the tack

08:46 uh which honestly is a little bit more

08:48 expensive for for us a little bit more

08:50 effort for us but we think it's better

08:52 serving our customers is to have a

08:55 optimized solution for the edge which is

08:57 what we've delivered with our brand new

08:59 trio six chip the sixth generation of

09:02 our wildly successful trio edge

09:05 optimized silicon

09:06 and we've elected to uh target core and

09:09 peering roles with our express five chip

09:12 uh the fifth generation of the express

09:14 line uh really is part of our ptx

09:16 running portfolio

09:18 they they have different characteristics

09:21 even though they're on the same 70

09:22 nanometer process geometry have widely

09:25 dissimilar scaling and performance

09:28 parameters which is really what you want

09:30 for these type of roles i don't see that

09:32 being done as much from some of our

09:34 competitors and we'll see in the market

09:37 but um i very firmly believe that

09:40 customers are resonating with having an

09:42 optimized solution for their mission

09:44 specific needs yeah i love it and that's

09:47 obviously a powerful combination to

09:50 address the you know diverse

09:51 requirements we just talked about

09:53 express five and and obviously the

09:55 express series is part of our ptx uh

09:58 core routing portfolio and then uh trio

10:01 which as you said sixth generation for

10:03 our mx series products you know brendan

10:06 of course the rubber really hits the

10:07 road when vendors actually start

10:10 shipping products

10:11 instantiated with this custom silicon so

10:15 from a product perspective

10:17 when can our customers expect to see

10:20 products based on either you know

10:22 express 5 or the new 306 silicon

10:27 so for express 5 right now it's a

10:29 silicon only announcement

10:31 products that will ship with express5

10:34 integrated with them will be in a future

10:35 date and the reason we opted to announce

10:38 the silicon today is because our

10:40 customers have such high growth of

10:42 bandwidth requirement they really wanted

10:44 to have that comfort factor that they

10:46 would make a bet on a platform and there

10:48 would be a long-term trajectory for it

10:50 not all of our competitors are as good

10:52 at being

10:53 out with rapid silicon or about

10:55 investment protection as juniper is

10:58 we're leading today with our ptx 10k in

11:02 the 400 gig generation for core routing

11:04 deployments the express 5 is really

11:07 architected for leading in the 800 gig

11:09 inflection point with 100 gigs 30s 112

11:12 technically but it's 100 gig service

11:14 type generation and so we have a silicon

11:16 only announcement really to tell our

11:18 customers we got you

11:20 we have perfect solutions with

11:22 leadership deployments today already for

11:24 400 gig you'll have that comfort that

11:27 you're protected for the future

11:29 now in contrast 306 is here now it's

11:32 already available um it's it's available

11:34 now on a brand new line card for the mx

11:37 10000 platform which gives us the

11:39 ability to scale from one gig all the

11:41 way up to 400 gig with full investment

11:44 protection and parity for years worth of

11:47 mx classic features

11:50 we've also got a couple platforms that

11:51 will be available uh later this year

11:53 maybe around the middle of the year

11:55 which are first of all an mx 1004

11:58 platform

11:59 that will be essentially a four slot

12:02 chassis variant that supports all the

12:03 same line cards including the brand new

12:06 306 baseline card just in a smaller form

12:08 factor with sports slots

12:10 and we've also got an mx304 platform and

12:13 that platform is really intended to be a

12:15 small form factor system

12:17 very cute but very high performance

12:20 again with all of the investment

12:21 protection for the trio feature set in a

12:24 very space optimized price optimized and

12:27 especially power optimized package

12:30 with 70

12:31 power savings over the prior generation

12:33 of trio chip

12:35 that's a lot actually a lot of products

12:37 hitting the market very exciting brendan

12:39 listen you know i just want to thank you

12:42 as always for sharing your vision and

12:43 also the details behind some of these

12:46 new product capabilities if i were to

12:48 you know quickly recap obviously we

12:50 believe in these

12:51 uniquely diverse challenges uh we've

12:54 built specialized silicon from the

12:56 ground up to support that and at juniper

12:59 just as we've done with the past two

13:00 decades we're delivering groundbreaking

13:03 products that instantiate these new

13:05 custom silicon innovations today

13:08 and um this announcement i think really

13:10 propels our leadership in the core and

13:12 the multi-service edge and as you said

13:15 with the right tool for the job very

13:17 much in contrast to other vendors

13:20 with their compromised single silicon

13:23 designs so it's what we know obviously

13:25 and what we know at juniper so listen

13:27 for all those listening in i want uh

13:30 first of all thank everyone please visit

13:33 juniper.net if you go to our service

13:35 provider or cloud operator solutions

13:37 pages you'll find a lot more information

13:40 about what we talked about today and i

13:42 specifically want to thank you brendan

13:44 thanks again this has been fantastic i

13:46 appreciate your time thank you sally

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