THE PLAN PHASE

Abstract

1 Capabilities Overview Your business depends on your network. The network can provide access to and communications between your critical applications—or maybe it is the business, as in the case of network operators and service providers. Being able to plan, build, and operate networks presents a challenge to many organizations, due to budget and resource constraints or simply a lack of experience and in-depth expertise to perform critical changes. These organizations frequently come to Juniper and its partners, seeking additional capabilities to help realize the full potential of their network. Juniper Networks consultants help you create the network that knows your business. Capabilities Description Whether you seek help to define your technology roadmap; optimize the network design; test, validate, and deploy the new network; or plan and manage the migration to your new network, Juniper and selected partners can assist you. We have our own team of experienced Juniper Networks© consultants plus a number of Professional Services partners. These select partners have each been reviewed and certified as meeting Juniper's stringent requirements for providing consulting services based on Juniper technologies. Juniper Networks makes these capabilities available within the framework of a network life-cycle approach. At a high level, three phases (as illustrated in Figure 1) comprise our end-to-end view of the life cycle: Plan, Build, and Operate. These phases are applicable to any and all network projects—from campus to WAN, data center to security, and across all types of customer organizations. The goal of the Plan phase is to enable you to design your ideal network. The right network can help your business compete and win. Juniper Networks and certified partners can help you architect your network of the future—intelligent, agile, and built for the cloud. Examples of capabilities that Juniper can make available to you during the Plan phase include: • Ability to assess your current environment and develop a roadmap for creating a network that satisfies your business and technology requirements • Development of the high-level architectural design as well as low-level detailed design of network devices, configurations, and interconnections