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Liberty Global and Juniper Networks Test New Multi Cloud Tech in the UK

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Juniper Networks and European broadband operator Liberty Global, which is one of the parents of Virgin Media and O2 UK, have just completed a joint Proof-of-Concept (PoC) in the UK that demonstrated a “cost-efficient, software-programmable, secure and seamless way” to consistently connect services and applications hosted in disparate locations and across different cloud technologies.

The PoC, which was built on a prototype of Juniper Cloud Interlink, essentially made it easier to bring together data and applications that might be spread across multiple cloud environments. This was partly achieved by automating the creation and management of assured, hybrid, multi-cloud networks across public cloud, on-premises and co-located data centres.

As part of this, the Juniper Cloud Interlink Gateways were deployed in an AWS Outpost on LG premises in Reading (UK) and in regional Clouds environments from both AWS and Google. The Gateways were then successfully interconnected within hours (instead of the more usual “weeks“) and supported advanced yet easy-to-operate network and security services, whilst maintaining consistent policies end-to-end.

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Juniper Cloud Interlink from Juniper also met Liberty Global’s stringent operational requirements by ensuring applications and SLEs were upheld, providing proactive anomaly detection, immediate root cause discovery, automated notifications and faster Mean Time to Identify (MTTI) and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) on networking issues across the fabric,” said the announcement.

Madalina Suceveanu, MD of Mobile & Cloud Tech at Liberty Global, said:

“Creating a single, programmable fabric across all our “national champion” broadband and mobile brands in Europe—from deployment to ongoing operation—is a critical ingredient in our mission to deliver the best possible user experiences to our cloud customers. Seamlessly and consistently managing the complexity of different cloud environments, locations and providers, this POC demonstrates the power of thinking holistically about the cloud and working with the right partners, like Juniper, to deliver solutions that can be utilized at scale.”

The focus above is clearly on medium and larger sized service providers and businesses (enterprises), which will often be using a mix of different cloud technologies, environments and locations. For example, such businesses might have several systems looking after different aspects, such as logistical handling, components drawings, design, manufacturing, inventory, customer ordering and payments etc. – often hosted in different clouds to suit specific needs and costs. The new solution attempts to make all of this easier and more cost-effective to manage.

Raj Yavatkar, SVP and CTO at Juniper Networks, said:

“In this POC we were able to show how Liberty Global could deploy Juniper Cloud Interlink to fully align cloud-based network access for applications and services to user expectations—yielding a secure, assured experience. It is also a perfect example of the important work done in Juniper Beyond Labs, helping us to anticipate our customers’ challenges and develop solutions that can shape the future of networking.”

Liberty and Juniper said they intend to continue cooperating in the development of this technology, at least until it reaches the required level of maturity for its commercial introduction. No ETA was given for when the latter might happen. But we should point out that multi-cloud management is not a new concept and various solutions already exist, although Juniper and Liberty Global appear to be trying to take this a step further.

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Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and .
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