HiNet, Taiwan's leading ISP, selected Juniper Networks' E-series platform for its island-wide broadband network. HiNet, which is a subsidiary of the incumbent carrier Chunghwa Telecom, currently has more than 1.5 million DSL subscribers. The company has been using Juniper's E-series for more than a year. The new order will help it double revenues from value-added services and boost subscriber numbers to 4.5 million by the end of 2003. Juniper's E-series combines IP routing, IP service creation and subscriber management in a single platform. It supports 16,000 multicast streams in a single chassis, paving the way for new multicasting services over DSL. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In April 2003, Chunghwa Telecom announced an ADSL promotion aimed at helping the government of Taiwan achieve its target of 6 million broadband users by the end of the year.
In June 2003, Juniper Networks introduced several enhancements to its Service-Built Edge portfolio aimed at supporting new service models for carriers. The rollout includes:
- the ERX-310 edge router featuring 3-slots and 10 Gbps backplane. The
ERX-310 is the smallest edge router in Juniper's portfolio and positioned
for deployment in smaller POPs supporting up to 16,000 subscribers. The
ERX-310 is aimed at untapped markets, such as smaller DSL nodes and 802.11
hotspots
- new Ethernet services PIC offered in 1-port and 2-port Gigabit Ethernet
versions. It provides per-VLAN QoS and accounting. It complements
Juniper's existing ATM services PIC. Both PICs could be deployed
simultaneously in the same M-series router.
- new BRAS enhancements for providing secure remote access for IPSec, IPv6
capabilities, and the ability to support 48,000 subscribers with full
services. The secure remote access capabilities would enable carriers to
terminate an IPSec client session at an E-series edge router for
interconnection into a corporate VPN.
- Juniper is also adding support for Ethernet-connected DSLAMs and new
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) support based on the Kompella draft.
Juniper's VPLS Kompella delivers inter-metro Ethernet LAN services by
leveraging BGP signaling. The solution supports autodiscovery and Inter-AS
for large carrier-to-carrier partnerships
- new J-Flow accounting capabilities for aligning billing with actual
resource consumption. Juniper said its flow-based accounting is
distinguished by being independent of the data path, thereby ensuring no
performance hit for turning on the accounting capabilities.
