Juniper set to unveil first 'Stratus data centre networking products

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:45

Business IT - Networking

Juniper is expected to unveil on Monday the first products embodying its new 'flat' for data centre networking, announced in February 2009 as the Stratus Project, and has hinted at very significant efficiency gains for data centre networks.

The company will hold a global webcast press conference at 10.00am Pacific time on Monday 17 May (3.00 am Tuesday AEST) to announce its 'New Network' for Data Centres."

It is promising to "discuss innovative technology and services that will help customers transform the economics and experience of data centre networks by eliminating layers of cost and complexity in legacy networks."

At the announcement of Stratus, Juniper said that Stratus "represents an initiative to create a single data centre fabric that will deliver a quantum jump in scale, performance and simplicity, with the flexibility to support fully converged and virtualised data centre environments," and that the, then one year old initiative, had already resulted in more than 30 patent applications.

Leading Stratus is Dr David Yen, a 20 year Sun Systems veteran who joined Juniper in April 2008. Yen explained that: "Juniper's Stratus Project addresses the modern mega data centre's pain points and endeavours to enable cloud computing to fulfil its maximum potential."

Juniper promises that the resulting data centre fabric will be "Flat, non-blocking and lossless to support converged traffic at 10Gbe access port speed and optimised for server virtualisation...[and] scalable from tens of ports to tens of thousands of 10GbE ports with up to an order of magnitude improvement in latency over today's data centre networks."

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