Ericsson and Juniper Networks are ready to unveil further enhancements to their joint 5G transport network and security solutions to meet increasing demand. Juniper and Ericsson will demonstrate their enhanced solutions at the at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona starting February 25, 2019.
Since announcing a partnership in September 2018, the companies claim to have secured more than 20 new customers worldwide
The companies say that service providers looking to deploy 5G ready networks are turning to the combined Ericsson and Juniper portfolios to deliver the required transport infrastructure, operations and service delivery solutions they need.
Juniper’s SDN controller, NorthStar, is interworking with Ericsson Dynamic Orchestration, for providing seamless control from the cell site to the packet core network – including the data center gateway. This allows automation and integration of connectivity services in the transport domain into an end-to-end network slice. With this solution, Ericsson’s Wide Area Network Orchestrator (WANO) acts as a hierarchical SDN controller in charge of configuring connectivity services.
Transport orchestration added to Ericsson’s network slicing solution, as per the company, provides the network slice with guaranteed bandwidth and key performance indicators, such as latency.
Another enhancement is in the security area, where solutions from Juniper are being integrated into the Ericsson RAN offerings. In addition to the newly announced 5G High Layer vRAN, Ericsson security functionality has been complemented with Juniper SRX and vSRX gateway products as the IPSec security solution to elevate and extend the security framework across the network.

Juniper PTX, MX and SRX will be natively integrated into Ericsson Security Manager to reduce time-to-market by automating hardening and facilitating monitoring and compliance of security policies.

As part of the partnership, Juniper will continue to use Ericsson’s go-to-market capabilities for mobile opportunities and Ericsson will include Juniper’s solutions for edge, core, security and network slicing as part of its end-to-end 5G transport portfolio.

Source: gadgetsnow.com