Juniper Networks Wins “Best of Show” Top Awards at Interop Tokyo 2018

 Juniper Networks  announced that it has captured multiple top honors at Interop Tokyo 2018 for the 12^th straight year. The recognition reflects the company’s consistent commitment toward delivering innovative and industry-leading networking technology while simplifying the complexities of networking.

Maintaining its award winning-streak at the influential trade show, Juniper triumphed in the following categories this year:

• “Best of Show” Grand Prix Award (Network Infrastructure): Juniper Networks MX10008 Universal Chassis
• “Best of Show” Grand Prix Award (Cloud Computing): Contrail Enterprise Multicloud by Juniper Networks
• “Best of Show” Runners-Up Award (Security): Juniper Networks ATP Appliance
• “Best of Show” Special Award (Security): Juniper Networks SRX4600 Services Gateway

Continuing Juniper’s proud tradition of receiving consecutive “Best of Show” awards at Interop Tokyo since 2007, a prominent judging panel of industry experts and executives selected Juniper’s products as award winners from among hundreds of nominations across the industry. Recent Juniper award-winners have included theQFX10008, QFX5110 and the MX10003.

As one of the largest network computing trade shows in Asia, Interop Tokyo is renowned for being a top global business technology event, showcasing the very latest in cutting-edge networking products, solutions and services from vendors across the world.

This year, Interop Tokyo 2018 attracted more than 140,000 attendees (including co-located events) and featured major keynote addresses and full-fledged conference programs, as well as an associated expo area for showcases by vendors.

Product Highlights:

Juniper Networks MX10008 Universal Chassis

• The MX10008 completes Juniper’s universal chassis portfolio that also includes the PTX and QFX chassis and continues service-scale innovation to usher in the next era of carrier, enterprise and cloud networking.
• Customers now can have a singular chassis to accommodate a variety of line cards and software for different use-cases, enabling customers to do more with less while simplifying network design and reducing OPEX.
• In addition, the MX10008 also brings industry-leading and space-saving scale for edge routers at 19.2 Tbps, while also improving per-slot economics for service scale at ~0.6 watts per gigabit.

Contrail Enterprise Multicloud by Juniper Networks

• Contrail Enterprise Multicloud is the only multicloud-ready orchestration and analytics platform, for any cloud and any workload, across multivendor environments.
• Integrating both overlay and underlay management into an open platform, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud streamlines workflows and improves end-to-end visibility.
• Featuring end-to-end policy and control capability, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud enables users to have a single tool for orchestration across overlay and fabric management, bare metal servers, virtual machines, containers and networking devices, private and public clouds and security management.
• Based on open interfaces and standard protocols, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud can be inserted into diverse networking environments to avoid unnecessary vendor lock-in, all while enabling a clear path toward a secure and automated multicloud.

Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Appliance

• The ATP Appliance provides comprehensive on-premise protection against a sophisticated ever-changing threat landscape.
• Utilizing advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis, the ATP Appliance identifies existing and unknown advanced threats in near real-time.
• With an open API architecture, the ATP Appliance integrates with third-party security devices for seamless, automatic threat mitigation.
• The ATP Appliance is available in both physical (all-in-one or distributed mode deployment) and virtual (distributed mode only) form factors.

Juniper Networks SRX4600 Services Gateway

• The high-performance SRX4600 next-generation firewall offers fast, scalable protection across the enterprise private cloud, campus networks, cloud service providers and telcos alike
• With integrated malware prevention and a full suite of next-generation services, the SRX4600 is optimized to provide consistent and seamless protection across diverse environments
• As the center point of defense, the SRX4600 offers unprecedented command over your entire security infrastructure, allowing for ‘single pane of glass’ management through Junos Space Security Director