Solution Benefits

This JVD tackles the challenges of modernizing metro networks to accommodate growing traffic demands, edge cloud integration, and evolving service requirements.

The Metro Ethernet Business Services solution validates a comprehensive multidimensional architecture with best practices for designing and implementing a dense service L2/L3 portfolio across intra-domain and inter-AS regions. Metro Ethernet follows the standards and framework defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) for the delivery and characterization of services. MEF 3.0 certification for operators involves the end-to-end compliance of production network services. By deploying MEF-certified equipment and adhering to MEF standards, service providers can ensure their service offerings meet rigorous performance criteria and meet customer expectations.

The Metro Ethernet Business Services JVD addresses the following three key challenges faced by modern metro networks:

• Inefficient Traffic Flow: Traditional metro architecture often rely on backhauling traffic to central aggregation points, leading to increased costs and latency as edge cloud adoption grows. This JVD introduces the Metro Edge Gateway (MEG) component to optimize traffic flows within the metro ecosystem by shifting advanced features closer to subscribers and enabling efficient traffic handling.
• Modernizing Transport Underlay: The Metro EBS design embraces network slicing and virtualization concepts, enabling multiple layers of abstraction over the same physical infrastructure. This allows flexible traffic steering and service differentiation.
• Adopting Cloud Principles: Provides seamless integration of legacy and next-generation technologies, aligning with "x-to-anything" connectivity models. This involves leveraging techniques like metro fabric and color-aware traffic steering to enhance the existing services and facilitate smooth migration to a cloud-centric metro architecture.

MaaS introduces the first supplier-approved comprehensive validation of MEF 3.0 compliance conducted over a production-emulated network. The Metro as a Service JVD enhances the solution established with Metro Ethernet Business Services JVD by qualifying over 12,000 MEF 3.0 test cases end-to-end across all featured E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, and Access E-Line (E-Access) services.

The Metro as a Service MEF 3.0 JVD enhances the solutions with key benefits to service providers:

• Seamless Interoperability: Juniper Networks MEF 3.0 certified products ensure that products work well with other MEF-compliant systems, reducing integration complexity and making it easier to deliver reliable, multi-vendor services.
• Faster Time-to-Market: Juniper Networks MEF-compliant solutions come pre-tested with industry standards, enabling service providers to deploy new services quickly, remain competitive, and meet customer demands efficiently.
• Guaranteed Service Quality: MEF 3.0 standards include stringent performance, security, and reliability benchmarks, allowing providers to deliver high-quality, dependable services and maintain customer trust.

With the Metro EBS JVD setting the foundation, this validation assures that Juniper products and solutions are reliable, compatible, and capable of delivering high-performance Ethernet connectivity in diverse networking environments. The primary Devices Under Test (DUT) include MEF 3.0-certified products: ACX7024, ACX7100, ACX7509, and MX304.

The Metro EBS JVD addresses traditional L2 business access and dedicated Internet access services while incorporating modern service delivery protocols, including EVPN-VPWS, EVPN Flexible Cross Connect, EVPN-ETREE, and EVPN-ELAN. The topology, built upon the Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio, deploys an infrastructure designed to support metro access multi-ring topologies and metro fabric scale-out spine-and-leaf design. The reference architecture is based on modern Carrier Ethernet Metro Area Networks (MAN) and takes into consideration the transformation required to facilitate diverse new services, applications, and use cases.

The Cloud Metro concept carries important characteristics in the amalgamation of service and content providers. These shifting industry trends demand massive bandwidth and an increase in service scale while supporting more complex metro workloads. This JVD establishes a bridge between the retro-metro concepts and the modern adaptation of cloud principles into metro networks. This includes an array of EVPN technologies, SR-MPLS/SRv6, and machinery to support inter-domain traffic engineering or seamless architectures across disparate networks. This differentiating factor characterizes requirements for supporting X-to-Anything connectivity models or building infrastructures that become access agnostic while blending with virtualized network functions and devices.

The solution architectures and services proposed in the Metro Ethernet Business Services JVD are part of the network modernization journey and challenges faced by many operators. Our modern converged network infrastructures and technologies stand ready to meet the demands of the new metro. This JVD proposes solution blueprints to make every connection count.