There’s a lot of talk these days about the network as a potential resource for innovation. Unfortunately, legacy networks can stifle innovation, since they’re not designed to actively address new market opportunities.

The reason? Legacy networks are neither open nor extensible, stifling any sort of rich, diverse application ecosystem.

To help overcome this challenge and measurably extend the value of your network, Juniper has introduced Junos Space, a customizable network application platform for building and hosting applications that helps you reduce cost and complexity and open your network to new business opportunities.

Junos Space includes a rapid application development framework based on service-oriented architecture, a highly scalable runtime environment and an innovative Web 2.0 user interface.

It’s designed to be simple, smart and open. Simple, because it’s designed with a business oriented interface where the system guides the user rather than the other way around. Smart, because the platform and applications have been designed to abstract and automate network operations as much as possible. And, of course, Junos Space is open. With this open platform architecture, partners, customers and developers are able to build and deploy smart applications that provide productivity and business benefits to users.

Junos Space also includes infrastructure applications that simplify operations, automate support and scale services. Included in these applications are Ethernet Activator, Route Insight Manager and Service Now. Ethernet Activator enables service providers to quickly, accurately and easily scale and provision MPLS services. Route Insight Manager provides real-time visibility into dynamic routing operations, enabling fast identification and resolution of network problems. Service Now automates incident and case management to shorten case resolution time.

From the moment you first see it, through to its potential impact on your business, Junos Space is truly a game-changer on many levels. It opens up a new network economy, leading to new applications and new opportunities. The result is unlimited possibilities for innovation everywhere.

The new network is here. And it’s running Junos Space.