In the current economic environment any attempt to upgrade or rethink an organization’s network infrastructure is going to come under intense scrutiny. As well it should. The costs—the true, aggregate costs—of both action and inaction need to be studied and evaluated before an informed decision can be made.

For many organizations today, Junos presents a strong argument from both a performance/capability and from a TCO stand point.

If you’re a typical organization running a largely Cisco solution in a traditional architecture, you’re probably coming up against several issues. Increases in network demand are straining the system faster than you’re able to add boxes. Interoperability issues—between Cisco and third-party vendors, and even between different Cisco devices—are leading to maintenance and downtime issues. And keeping your training current across the staff is time-consuming and expensive.

Hidden in that scenario is the steepest cost of all. Your IT people (and your IT budget) are entirely consumed with keeping things running, not with innovation.

Because Junos is the first unified network operating system with an open and secure API, it offers a powerful alternative to that all too typical story. Training costs are minimized because there is one version to learn, not a dozen. Interop issues are eliminated, reducing maintenance and testing demands. Even more fundamentally, the simplified architecture and increased performance of a Junos solution means that fewer devices are doing more work. You eliminate network complexity, identified by the Gartner Group as the #1 factor in TCO.

And, since Junos works across the entire network portfolio, the software can automatically perform routine tasks that would have to be executed manually in a legacy system. It can repartition, self diagnose and understand network activity dynamically. The more you add Junos to your network environment, , the more you free up your staff to do the work you really want them to be doing—thinking about your business. These minds are your most valuable asset; getting them back on-line is the biggest boon you can give your company.

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