Liberty Global has deployed Juniper Networks vMX as a virtual route reflector in its network – as part of its Network Function Virtualization (NFV) strategy.
The strategy of Liberty Global, a global broadband company, is to achieve better performance and cost-effective project expansion in order to support voice, video and data services for its residential and business customers.
Liberty Global has approximately 25 million customers across more than 30 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Liberty Global has over 10 million mobile subscribers and offers WiFi services across 10 million WiFi access points. The company invests infrastructure to empower its customers in the digital world.
Liberty Global has deployed Juniper Networks’ virtual route reflector — a task-optimized vMX with a high performance control plane — across its network footprint.
The vMX is a carrier-grade virtualized MX Series Universal Edge Router that runs as licensed software on x86-based servers, providing a NFV-based approach to building cloud-grade networks.
vMX virtual route reflector provides efficient cost-effective control plane scale and performance to Liberty Global. Juniper Networks said it addresses future growth by simply spinning up new virtual reflectors on-demand.
Virtual route reflection provides efficient scale in large border gateway protocol (BGP) networks, assisting Liberty Global to streamline operations and reduce total cost of ownership.
“Liberty Global already deployed Juniper’s routing, switching and security solutions at various locations in their network,” said Paul Obsitnik, vice president, portfolio marketing at Juniper Networks.
Juniper said MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers provide advanced routing and MPLS capabilities, low-latency multicast support, advanced quality of service and high availability features for Liberty Global’s core network.
“While our first NFV deployment is for virtual route reflection, we are also evaluating the vMX to rapidly add network capacity and new customers. The ability to leverage virtual routing capabilities will enable agile service innovation and increased operational efficiency,” said Andy Grotzke, vice president, core network strategy & engineering at Liberty Global.
