Chapter 4

Migrating to Junos

In This Chapter

  • Collapsing switching layers in the data center or campus network
  • Scaling the access layer in the data center
  • Speeding up the data center network
  • Enhancing the security of your network
  • Discovering a few of the devices running Junos

Organizations with new requirements to update or modernize their networks — to meet new needs of cloud services and mobility or to enhance the security, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of their existing applications — discover many benefits in migrating to solutions running Junos. Available solutions include ways to scale and consolidate data centers, update campus and branch networks, and integrate and virtualize security infrastructure.

This chapter introduces a few of the ways that organizations migrate their networks to Junos and also summarizes the portfolio of devices running the Junos OS. Chapter 19 covers the most commonly used tools and resources for migrating to Junos.

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