For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess how Juniper’s Cloud Metro portfolio helps usher in the Cloud Metro era, replacing the retro metro.
Their conversation focused on:
- How Cloud Metro applies cloud principles to metro networks to attain cloud-scale service agility using resource pooling, automated operations, elastic scalability, and secure and measured services.
- Advantageous Cloud Metro outcomes include developing one converged metro to support all use cases, full service and network provisioning with cloud native tools, ease in scaling and optimization of east-west traffic, and peace of mind from built-in security, Service SLA, QoE are all actively tested and assured.
- Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio does the heavy lifting for operators including pooling of server, storage, and switching capabilities throughout cloud fabrics and multicloud implementations as well as scale up and scale out capabilities in the support of nascent network slicing and microservices applications.
Ron and Shelly delve into why they see Cloud Metro capabilities as critical to powering 5G network innovation and monetization and broadening adoption of cloud principles to metro networks.
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