Liberty Global and Juniper Networks Collaborate to Demonstrate Seamless Cloud Connections
Juniper
Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networks, and Liberty Global, one of the world’s leading converged video,
broadband and communications companies, announced the successful
completion of a joint proof-of-concept (POC) designed to deliver a high-quality
seamless user experience for customers with data and applications spread across
multiple cloud environments.
The POC
demonstrated a cost-efficient, software-programmable, secure and seamless way
to consistently connect services and applications hosted in disparate locations
and across different cloud technologies. The POC was built on Juniper Cloud
Interlink, which automates the creation and management of assured, hybrid,
multicloud networks across public cloud, on-premises and co-located data
centers. Juniper Cloud Interlink is currently in advanced development
within Juniper Beyond Labs, an innovation hub that pioneers user
experience-led networking.
As a
network provider to millions of consumer and business customers, Liberty Global
is keen to explore innovative ways to enhance cloud connectivity solutions for
its customers, as they navigate the complexity of hybrid multicloud
architectures while maintaining secure, high-quality user experiences at scale.
Increasingly
business customers are migrating their applications and data to the cloud to
benefit from improved resilience, elasticity and scalability. But due to a mix
of technological, functionality and commercial reasons, customers typically select
different cloud environments and locations, including centralized and edge
locations for supporting present and future applications. A typical
medium/large enterprise has several systems looking after different aspects of
their business, such as logistical handling, components drawings, design,
manufacturing, inventory, customer ordering, payments. These systems are likely
to be hosted in different cloud environments to suit specific aspects such as
performance, data storage and processing costs, geographical locations. Such
business needs translate into an increased number of customers grappling with
connecting multiple applications and services across various cloud-based
technologies, providers and locations for a wide range of internal and external
uses. Liberty Global serves thousands of business customers, delivering
advanced connectivity, unified communication, security and IT managed services,
generating annual revenue exceeding $3bn; consequently, the company can
anticipate a future demand for multi-cloud connectivity.
Current
methods of connecting to multiple heterogeneous clouds are inconsistent, each
with their own best practices, tools, platforms and limitations. Collectively
this creates a challenging environment that can put application Service Level
Expectations (SLEs), security policies and the ability for customers to select
the optimal cloud solution for each type of their data and applications at
risk.
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