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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 01 November 2006 |
A team up between IP Telephony specialist, Avaya and
networking tearaway, Juniper is set to bring a new branch office solution to market that commentators are saying could give Cisco cause for concern.
The two companies joined forces a year ago to put together a
Branch Office solution for IP Telephony. Their first progeny is now ready to emerge
in the form of the J Series router - a device that will bring integrated communications
solutions to the outlying reaches of enterprise networks.
The J-Series will ultimately combine Juniper's routing and
WAN acceleration technology together with Avaya's industry-leading IP voice
gateway and intelligent communications applications. It will be the first integrated
solution to emerge from the joint product engineering and software development being undertaken by the two companies.
The idea is to bring data and communications together in one
branch office device in order to reduce cost and complexity for larger enterprise
VoIP installations. The new J-series routers are available now, but the compatible Avaya telephony
cards are not due for availability until first quarter 2007.
Once they become available in the New Year, Avaya's new
IG550 gateway cards (there are three models) will allow the J-Series routers to provide telephony support for up to 100
station users.
Two analogue stations as well as two analogue trunks provide
embedded local survivability in the basic card. Even more back up is possible
with an expanded analogue port option, which supports four additional station
and four additional trunk ports. Another card features a digital trunk interface option supporting
a single T1/E1/PRI interface; and a four-port ISDN BRI version for interoffice
trunking.
Phone services actually rely on centralised Avaya call servers unless in survivability mode.
The new Juniper J4350 and J6350 J-series routers provide up
to two Gigabit Ethernet and, of course, are telephony-ready. They run modular
JUNOS operating system software, which offers many advanced services (MPLS,
IPv6, QoS, multicast, etc.) and security (stateful firewall and IPSec VPN) at
no additional charge.
The idea is for Juniper to progressively add features to this operating system to enhance support for security and so on.
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