Juniper networks JUNOS SPACE OVERVIEW User Manual

JUNOS SPACE

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Product Overview

Junos Space is an open soware

platform designed for partner, customer

and ISV applications. It consists of:

• A scalable runtime environment to

host applications

• Network infrastructure and operations

management applications

• Hot-pluggable, multi-tenant

environment to enable applications

and devices to be dynamically

integrated

• A simple Web 2.0 user interface to

speed productivity

• A complete rapid application

development framework for

developing simple and smart

applications

Product Description

Juniper Networks® Junos® Space is an open, extensible network platform for developing

and hosting applications that reduce cost and complexity and open your network to new

business opportunities.

One of the core members of the Junos platform, Junos Space uses the same design

principles and open systems approach of the Junos operating system to enable

programmability at the network application layer.

Junos Space is a multipurpose application platform designed to be simple, smart and open.

• Smart—the core platform provides network abstractions and automation to enable

smart applications, and includes best practices to automate repetitive tasks, minimize

user input, and scale services.

• Simple—the platform interface is business-intent oriented, not technology-centric, with

the system guiding the user rather than the other way around.

• Open—the platform architecture is open and explicitly designed to enable partners to

build and deploy smart, simple and easy-to-use applications.

Figure 1: Junos Space user administration

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Junos Space is underpinned by a programmable application

environment, a powerful runtime environment, and a Web 2.0 GUI.

Customizable Application Environment: Junos Space is based

on a Service Oriented Architecture. Junos Space is a multipurpose

environment that enables you to create applications for

productivity, collaboration an network operations. It provides a

complete, rapid application development framework that includes

a common infrastructure, a toolkit with pre-built core services that

work consistently across Juniper-developed network operations,

applications, and widgets to allow easy user interface prototyping

and standards-based APIs for third-party application integration.

Junos Space is a customizable platform that allows users to

extend the core functionality to meet specific business needs.

Users can also utilize the platform’s core services to create mash-

ups for quick deployment and monetization of applications.

The Junos Space runtime platform is multi-tenant and enables

hot-pluggable applications. Juniper or third-party applications

can be added by simply downloading them onto the platform, and

the system automatically deploys the applications throughout

the fabric, including deploying code to clients. Using the Device

Management Interface (DMI) included with the platform, you

can also do hot-pluggable device additions and updates, and in-

service application and device upgrades to enable you to improve

service availability and business continuity.

Figure 2: Junos Space applications

Scalable and Resilient Runtime Environment: Architected to

provide full visibility and control of your network resources, Junos

Space enables you to enhance the performance of your network.

Junos Space is implemented as a scalable fabric of physical or

virtual appliances that work collaboratively to help you optimize

network resiliency and resource utilization. You can expand or

contract the fabric by simply adding or deleting nodes, and the

system automatically starts applications and services on active

nodes. Each node is fully utilized and the nodes work together to

provide automated resource management.

Figure 3 Junos Space platform

Easy User Experience: Junos Space provides a Web 2.0 GUI and is

designed to simplify the way you interact with the system. It is based

on a task-oriented paradigm and uses persona-based workflows to

help you do your administrative tasks quickly and eciently.

Embedded Network Operation Applications

Junos Space provides multiple management and infrastructure

applications within its platform, which allow for total

management of your Juniper resources and assets, including

comprehensive inventory management, full configuration of

devices and interfaces, automated management and deployment

of software images and event-driven fault management. These

platform applications are embedded within the core product. In

conjunction with multiple add-on applications, users can control

any part of their environment.

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Junos Space will support a full portfolio of Juniper-developed

applications for automating network infrastructure and

operations. The first three applications available today include

the Juniper Networks Ethernet Activator for point-and-click

provisioning of point-to-point and multipoint-to-multipoint MPLS

VPNs, Juniper Networks Route Insight Manager to enable end-to-

end network planning, simulation, and diagnostics, and Juniper

Networks Service Now, an in-device failure monitoring tool for

lights off incident creation to speed problem resolution.

Ethernet Activator - Service Scaling

Speeds Your Time-to-Revenue

• Point-and-click interface for rapid Ethernet/MPLS service

creation and provisioning

• Smart automation for reduced time-to-value

• Out-of-box service catalog for common services

Route Insight Manager - Simplified Network
Operations

• Builds a virtual image of network routing

• Provides record/replay for MPLS core

• Speeds up troubleshooting

• Simulates network changes before making them on the network

Figure 5: Route Insight Manager

Figure 4: Ethernet Activator

Service Now - Support Automation

Automates Network Diagnostics

• Reduces mean time to repair

(MTTR) and operational

complexity

• Reduces mean time between

failures without increasing

operational costs

• Increases operational efficiency

• Delivers 10x more network

uptime

AI Scripts

Installed

Service

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Configuration

Customer Network Juniper

Service

Now

Customer or
Partner NOC

Figure 6: Service Now

Internet

Gateway

Juniper

Support

System

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Juniper will continue to expand its network operations portfolio

with applications to automate the management of campus,

data center, security, and cloud infrastructures. Other planned

Juniper-developed applications will include Campus Builder,

an application to quickly design and deploy campus network

topologies and services, Security Designer, an application to

quickly and easily design, test and deploy rich security policies

across entire network infrastructures and Cloud Creator to design

and deploy various cloud services and infrastructures like virtual

Productivity Applications

Junos Space helps third-party developers create applications such

as smart metering aggregation for remote metering, collection,

and aggregation to enable endpoint rollout and monitoring that

can be offered as a managed service or a standalone application.

Junos Space also supports the development of online Web

applications for personal and workplace productivity, or “my

network” applications to synchronize bookmarks, contacts,

passwords, etc., across devices and identities.

fabrics, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.

Collaboration Applications

Third-Party Developer Applications

Third parties and enterprises that build applications on top of the

Junos Space platform enjoy many advantages in addition to the

development environment. These include the reuse of the Junos

Space runtime fabric for better utilization of processing resources,

the security of communication and data persistence, and the

usability and flexibility of the Web UI.

Juniper ’s developers and partners can leverage Junos Space to

build applications like SMS multicast for private branded white

box twitter applications for user communities, or online/remote

meeting tools for secure meetings and collaboration across

distributed sites.

Features and Benefits

FEATURES FEATURE DESCRIPTION BENEFITS

Web 2.0 GUI • Task-oriented GUI to enable users to complete tasks in

congruent navigation steps and screen flows without
context switches

• Persona-oriented system views and workflows

• Workflow automations for common tasks

• Progressive disclosure for contextual view of the
network

Hot-pluggable/multitenant
applications

Application fabric • Distributed fabric of IP-connected physical or virtual

Network operations • Soware Image Management: Ability to do remote

Full rapid application
development framework

• Hosted applications that can be hot-plugged into
Junos Space platform via global dashboard

• Applications that leverage global platform capabilities
but maintain their unique identities

appliances of pre-assembled, near-identical full
application stacks, including the complete Junos
Space soware to enable each appliance to provide
full management functionality

• End users are able to access management
applications through a single, public virtual IP

• Fabric that is deployed in active/active cluster
configuration

soware upgrades and in-service soware upgrades

• Inventory Management: Automated collection
of inventory data from Juniper routers, and device
inventory views of physical and logical inventory of
supported devices, allowing users to generate reports
and track locations, availability, and deployment of
hardware, soware, and licenses

• Junoscript Management: Configuration and
management of Junos scripts

• Includes a common infrastructure, a tool kit with core
services and user interface widgets, and integration
APIs

• Identity-based navigational flows and consistent user
experience that increases user productivity, eliminates
error prone manual operations, and speeds up
operation cycle times

• Lower OpEx due to reduced requirement for highly
skilled personnel, and reduced training and support
costs due to consistent interface and workflow
automation

• Rapid deployment of applications and devices

• In-service application and device updates to increase
uptime and business continuity

• Instant scale by simply adding or deleting nodes on
the fabric

• Increased application availability and resilience due to
no single point of failure

• Resource optimization due to each node being fully
utilized and load-balanced with others in the fabric

• Zero downtime maintenance to increase application
and service availability

• Holistic development environment, real-time discovery
and reporting of complete device inventory, enabling
network operators to maximize resource utilization,
increase asset reliability, and the return on their
networking assets

• Comprehensive development environment to rapidly
create and monetize applications

• Easy integration into OSS and data center ecosystems

• Ability to create mashups for market-specific solutions

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JUNOS SPACE

Specifications

Mainboard: Intel 3210/LGA775 motherboard

• Chipset—Intel Bigby-P chipset

- Intel 3210 chipset

- Intel ICH9R

• Headers for VGA and PS/2 mouse and keyboard support

on motherboard (to be used for development, test, and

debugging—not intended for shipment to customer)

Processor: Single LGA 775 CPU, Intel Core2 Quad Q9400

2.66 GHz 6 MB L2 Cach 95W Quad-Core Processor

Memory: 8 GB memory in a total of 4 DIMM slots (4x2 GB DIMM

modules)

• ECC DDR2 unbuffered

Network ports:

• 4x RJ45 10/ 100/1000 via Intel 82573EB Gigabit Ethernet

controller

• Optional single IOC slot available for expansion

I/O ports:

• 1x RJ45 serial port for serial console

• USB interface

Power supply: 250 W auto ranging power supply for all countries

(90 to 264 V)

• High efficiency—80 PLUS certified

• Cold swappable (single supply)

• Dual redundant hot-swap (dual supply option)

RAID controller:

• Adaptec 5405 RAID controller2 or equivalent

Hard drive:

• Hot-swap RAID 5 array

• 3 x1 TB Seagate ES.2 7200 SAS HDD

In IOC style trays, externally accessible, field replaceable:

• Front panel LED to indicate drive activity

• Front panel LED to indicate drive failure/array rebuild

Junos Space Virtual Appliance

The Junos Space Virtual Appliance includes the complete Junos

Space software package as well as the operating system and

requires users to create a virtual machine in order to deploy the

appliance. The recommended specifications for the virtual machine

are identical to the specifications of the physical appliance. The

recommended specifications for the virtual machine are identical to

the specifications of the physical appliance.

Juniper Networks Services and Support

Juniper Networks is the leader in performance-enabling services

and support, which are designed to accelerate, extend, and

optimize your high-performance network. Our services allow

you to bring revenue-generating capabilities online faster so

you can realize bigger productivity gains and faster rollouts of

new business models and ventures. At the same time, Juniper

Networks ensures operational excellence by optimizing your

network to maintain required levels of performance, reliability, and

availability. For more details, please visit www.juniper.net/us/en/

products-services/

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Ordering Information

When ordering Junos Space, three items are required: the number

and type (either virtual or physical) of appliances required for the

fabric, the device points required to manage the devices in the

network, and any higher-level applications and their SKUs. Devices

within Junos Space are separated into five tiers, from smallest

to largest; to simplify ordering, the platform uses device points,

with each class of device worth a certain number of points. When

ordering, the device points are grouped into bundles, for ease of

ordering. The SKUs are as follows:

MODEL NUMBER DESCRIPTION

SPC1500-A-BSE Junos Space JA1500

SPC-VA-BSE Junos Space Virtual Appliance for VMWare

environment

SPC-ETHACT Add Junos Space Ethernet Activator

Application - 100 connections included

SPC-L2L3-CON-ADD-100 Add 100 Common L3 MPLS VPN and L2 VPN

Ethernet Activator connections

SPC-L2L3-CON-ADD-500 Add 500 Common L3 MPLS VPN and L2 VPN

Ethernet Activator connections

SPC-L2L3-CON-ADD-1K Add 1,000 Common L3 MPLS VPN and L2

VPN Ethernet Activator connections

SPC-L2L3-CON-ADD-10K Add 10,000 Common L3 MPLS VPN and L2

VPN Ethernet Activator connections

SPC-DEVPTS-ADD-20 Add Junos Space 20 device points

SPC-DEVPTS-ADD-100 Add Junos Space 100 device points

SPC-DEVPTS-ADD-1K Add Junos Space 1,000 device points

SPC-DEVPTS-ADD-10K Add Junos Space 10,000 device points

SPC-DEVPTS-ADD-100K Add Junos Space 100,000 device points

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance

networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network

infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment

for accelerating the deployment of services and applications

over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses.

Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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