Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, has partnered with T-Systems, one of the world-leading cross-manufacturer digital service providers, to create and deliver a managed SD-WAN infrastructure as part of an end-to-end service overlay solution for companies with complex network and connectivity requirements.
With this service offering, T-Systems is focusing on the adoption of modern enterprise networking with a secure, managed platform for the delivery of multi-cloud hosted applications, as well as delivering standardised services as managed SD-WAN overlay services, called Smart SD-WAN. Smart SD-WAN powered by Juniper is a cornerstone of an advanced, secure networking infrastructure, which is the foundation of T-Systems’ Digital Transformation strategy.
Having already secured a major European transportation brand as a flagship customer for these services, T-Systems is expecting its offering to provide a compelling proposition for a wide range of enterprises to deliver significant revenues to its business. Ultimately, T-Systems is committed to helping its enterprise customers navigate Digital Transformation by reducing complexity, managing costs effectively and increasing data protection capabilities. Furthermore, providing its customers with greater visibility into the network as a core business asset helps them achieve their digital goals more easily.
To create this new offering, T-Systems has integrated a range of Juniper products including:
- Contrail Service Orchestration – A scalable and multi-tenant software platform that offers automated branch connectivity management and enables T-Systems to improve network service delivery, providing reliability and agility while extending visibility across its multi-cloud network.
- SRX Series Security Gateways – A range of SD-WAN customer premises devices delivering a comprehensive suite of layered security services that enable advanced defence against known and unknown threats.
- NFX Series Network Services Platform – Secure, standards-compliant CPE devices that allows T-Systems to easily create and deliver network services to its customers.
- vSRX Virtual Firewalls – Offering the same features as Juniper’s physical SRX Series firewalls but in a virtualised form factor for delivering security services that scale to allow T-Systems to add cloud sites in an end-to-end multi-cloud SD-WAN service.
- All Juniper infrastructure runs on the Junos OS with the one Junos experience optimised for the modularity, openness and programmability required of the new cloud era in networking. Built for reliability, security and flexibility, Junos automates network operations while furthering operational efficiency.
- A comprehensive Connected Security package, including Firewall User Authentication, Application Security, Unified Threat Management as well as Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, to strengthen network defences. Juniper Connected Security makes these and other capabilities available throughout the network to automatically protect users and data.
“In our view, customised connectivity is a foundational success factor for the digitalisation and business success of our customers. Working with Juniper, we are able to provide our enterprise customers an end-to-end, demand-oriented infrastructure that supports their digitalisation challenges and reduces complexity within the network. Juniper’s innovative solutions allow us to offer a technically and financially competitive solution with a highly flexible and dynamic service offering,” said Adel Al-Saleh, Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management and CEO, T-Systems.
“As a long standing Juniper partner, T-Systems’ choice to offer its new SD-WAN solution based on our technology deepens our relationship and also enables them to provide a host of secure services and capabilities to enterprises and simplify the deployment, operation and maintenance of the underlying network. The combination of cloud services and software-defined networking creates a strategic opportunity for providers like T-Systems to differentiate themselves in the marketplace by addressing the infrastructural complexity that their customers face, and Juniper is there to help them achieve that goal,” said Rami Rahim, Chief Executive Officer, Juniper Networks.
