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Terra selects Juniper Networks OFabric for its Data Center
November 2012 by Marc Jacob
Juniper Networks as selected Juniper Networks® QFabric™ architecture for a data center
network that scales with simplicity to help meet growing consumer demand for online media.
Beginning with its selection of the Juniper Networks QFX Series switch last year, Terra has
completed its data center network transformation by seamlessly transitioning those switches into
nodes in a single-tier QFabric architecture, protecting original investments while obtaining a flat
network that is easy to manage and operate as a single switch. With the QFabric architecture,
Terra is ready to support events that will place Brazil on the global stage—and where streaming
video will be in highest demand—including the Confederation Cup in 2013, World Cup in 2014
and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
News Highlights
? The QFabric architecture has delivered major improvements to the performance,
scalability and agility of Terra’s data centers in the United States and Brazil, optimizing
consumers’ interactive experiences with the company’s online multimedia services across
17 countries. A single QFabric instance can support up to 6,144 10GbE ports within a
single data center network fabric, providing the agility and scalability to grow as demand
increases.
? During the London Olympics this past summer, Terra was the only online broadcaster in
Latin America with Web and mobile broadcasting rights. During the Games, Terra
simultaneously transmitted 4,760 hours of high-definition streaming video to 100 million
viewers over 36 channels through the Web, mobile phones and tablets.
? Terra began with QFX3500 10GbE top-of-rack switches earlier this year to optimize the
delivery of cloud-based services to its customers before seamlessly transitioning those
same switches to the edge nodes of a single-tier network with the QFabric architecture.
? As a key component of Juniper’s “3-2-1” data center network architecture, the QFabric
family of products enabled Terra to consolidate thousands of ports by simplifying its
switching design through fewer devices and interconnections while also improving scale,
performance, manageability and reducing total cost of ownership.
? Terra further consolidated its data center architecture with the QFabric architecture by
leveraging support for converged storage, further reducing total cost of ownership with
less network complexity and less chance of misconfigurations and downtime.
? The deployment was supported by Sao Paolo-based integration partner, Binário, which
was named Juniper Networks Latin American Partner of the Year for 2011. An integration
partner of Juniper’s for several years, Binario focuses on designing, delivering and
maintaining complex networking projects.
