JUNOS: Features and Benefits

JUNOS software helps customers in specific, measurable ways to improve the availability and delivery of services, to reduce operations effort and errors, and to meet new business needs — with a long list of distinct attributes that set it apart from other network operating systems.

JUNOS Software Advantage	JUNOS Software Attributes
Continuous Systems Improve the availability, performance and security of services	Fault-tolerant modularity - enhances software stability and uptime with independent operation and restart of modules. Dedicated resources for routing and packet forwarding - provide predictable performance as new services are activated and with a command-line interface (CLI) that doesn't lock-up. High availability features - preserve forwarding and routing operations during device events with non-stop forwarding, Graceful Routing Engine Switchover, non-stop routing, etc. Single release train - enables the development control and extensive regression testing that underlie the software stability. Secure Operating System - protects with secure administration and advanced security features, including Stateful firewall, VPNs, etc. that deliver high throughput with many activated policies. Automated operations (see row below) - prevent human errors and provide proactive measures to reduce the total number, severity and duration of events.
Automated Operations Reduce operations effort and errors	Single implementation of each feature - provides a common user experience regardless of platform to simplify deployment and training. Error-resilient configuration - prevents incomplete or incorrect configurations from becoming active in the network. On-box, custom commit scripts - ensure that configurations are error-free and in compliance to each organization's policies to prevent outages and security vulnerabilities caused by human error. On-box, custom operation (op) scripts and event policies - automate finding and proactively resolving issues from the first, leading indicators to reduce the number, severity and duration of events. Single release train - removes significant risk and effort from network upgrades.
Flexible Innovation Meet new business needs	Session Resource and Control portfolio and Open IP Service Creation Program - extend policy and control to applications and other systems to deliver a rich set of IP services. NETCONF/XML interfaces - support flexible integration to management and operations systems. JUNOScope IP Service Manager 413 KB and J-Web 86 KB provide central and web-based management of JUNOS-based platforms. Systematic development process - predictably provides many new features each quarter to protect investment by meeting new service needs.