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Content providers strive to provide the best experience to the end-user. This means speed, resolution and easy access to on-demand content. As content gets bigger, bulkier and part of larger conglomerate of in-demand content, there is often a sacrifice in load times, the amount of content that can be displayed at once and even the availability of content from time to time.
Last week, Telefónica Spain joined forces with Juniper Networks, yet again, to combat the disruptions we often face in content consumption across several channels and platforms. This partnership aims to rollout a new solution in support of enhanced delivery of rich content and cloud-servicing.
Telefónica, service provider to over 329M customers around the world, teams up with Juniper Networks in transforming the current Fusíon Network infrastructure to provide better services to clients through television, high speed Internet and mobile services from a single IP network. The companies aim to better serve enterprises, providing rich cloud services, as well.
One focus of interest is providing better interconnectivity to content providers, content delivery networks and data centers, who rely on such systems to work seamlessly and without interruption. There is nothing worse than losing quality in content during consumption – unless, of course, you are interacting with a customer and trying to provide them with an enhanced customer experience, while showing them why they need your brand. Solid service translates to reliability for a service provider.
Telefónica will provide better service to their enterprise clientele, who are able to provide service to their customers in confidence.
“Our customers expect a fast, always-on, secure experience, as they connect to cloud-based business services, access bandwidth-hungry TV, video and music content for download and streaming, or use social media sites,” states Joaquin Mata, CTO of Telefónica Spain. “Development of a superfast core that can match Fusión Network’s service edge network with scale, reliability and minimal latency, is the next step. Juniper Networks is a valued partner to Telefónica as we drive Spain’s digital transformation forward.”
The two teamed up Last September for a next generation multi-terabit IP/MPLS solution for metro services delivery through the new MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, covering the entire Fusíon Network. These routers have provided high performance, scalability and intelligent SDN control. The quality of ingoing and outgoing traffic is enhanced through routing capacity and connectivity in all Internet Exchange locations.
The new addition to the MX series, MX2020, is an industrial-level router, providing clients with over 32Tbps of capacity, feeding millions of consumers at once. With secure and fully redundant architecture, this solution is set to rollout in 2019 and will be automated through Juniper’s proprietary Junos OS system. The network, itself, is highly automated.
The entire MX Series scales up to 80Tbps of system capacity, utilizing the same Junos operating system and powered with a programmable Junos chipset. The newly evolved networks will not change the way television is viewed or how content is consumed, however it will unlock the doors that will, through better connectivity, reliability and complex functionality. Data will be more secure. And, Telefónica will continue transforming content delivery through their highly consumed platforms.