Extranet provider taps Juniper for multi-ISP nets
 
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Juniper Networks this week announced that service provider CoreExpress has deployed Juniper's M20 routers for its extranet service.
CoreExpress will use the M20 routers with Juniper's Internet Processor II ASIC to support a service with multi-ISP site-to-site performance guarantees, Juniper says. The deployment will span CoreExpress' Internet Data Exchange System (iDES), which includes a 22,000-mile redundant, OC-192 fiber-optic network.
The CoreExpress iDES platform combines the company's fiber-optic network and proprietary technologies with financial incentives so that ISPs deliver one another's customer traffic in a "premium quality" fashion, Juniper says.
The Juniper routers will act as gateways for customer traffic into the CoreExpress iDES platform from an ISP's network and will enable CoreExpress to offer site-to-site performance guarantees for individual customers, Juniper says. These guarantees ensure high availability and minimal loss and latency between a customer and its partners, even if they use different ISPs, Juniper claims.
CoreExpress' Extranet is designed to provide deployment of a large-scale, multi-ISP business partner network. The extranet allows businesses to use the Internet for delivering applications such as time-sensitive data transactions, supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, e-procurement and business-to-business integration, Juniper says.
Juniper's M20 routers will enable CoreExpress to establish connectivity to its customers' sites through their existing ISPs, and new customer connections through the M20 router's "auto provisioning" features, Juniper says. Additionally, CoreExpress will be able to track data transferred between business partners, and bill its customers based on traffic transferred between customers with different classes of service, Juniper says.
The M20 also will enable CoreExpress to provide service-level agreement compensation directly proportional to the traffic sent to an affected site, Juniper claims.
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