Philadelphia Advances Smart City Vision

More than 1.5 million people call the City of Philadelphia home. It’s the birthplace of liberty and the cheesesteaks. Philadelphia is also an innovator in advanced IT services, with a citywide network that supports 30,000 workers in dozens of departments from first responders to urban planners. The city’s Juniper backbone has delivered 99.99% uptime over more than five years.

Overview

Company City of Philadelphia
Industry Government and Non-Profit
Products used MX960 ,  Advanced Threat Prevention ,  Security Director ,  Wi-Fi Assurance ,  Wired Assurance ,  Edge ,  Advanced Threat Prevention ,  Policy Enforcer
Region Americas
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"Being a Juniper shop makes my life and my team’s lives easier. We run a network that supports 30,000 employees with four people. We have efficient network operations."
Dennis Doyne Chief Network Operations Officer, City of Philadelphia

Business Challenge

With a Juniper network connecting hundreds of government offices to the city’s data center and beyond, the City of Philadelphia has laid the foundation for a more efficient, innovative city. Smart city services like intelligent traffic lights keep neighborhoods and environmentally sustainable. Empowered by the operational simplicity of a Juniper network, a lean IT team of four handles all the network tasks.

The Products

   

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Product
MX960

The SDN-enabled MX960 Universal Routing Platform is a high performance, carrier-grade, multiservice edge platform with unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud applications. The MX960 enables inline MACsec support without performance penalties on 10, 40 GbE and 100 GbE, and delivers 12 Tbps of system capacity in a 12 slot chassis supporting dense 100 GbE, 400 GbE interfaces. Similar to the other MX Series Universal Router Platforms, the MX960 has extensive carrier-grade capabilities.

Teal shield, cloud, and lightning bolt graphic representing Juniper’s Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) that’s also cloud ready.
Product
Advanced Threat Prevention

The threat intelligence hub for your network, available as a cloud service or on-premises appliance. Protect against known and unknown threats, assess and verify device and IoT risk, and analyze encrypted traffic.

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Product
Security Director

Centralized security management, analytics, and unified policy orchestration delivered to users, devices, and applications wherever they go, on-premises, in the cloud, and around the world.

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PRODUCT FAMILY
Wireless Access Points

Juniper is leading the convergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® LE, and IoT with our enterprise-grade Access Points. The Juniper Access Points work in conjunction with the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture and Mist AI to collect and analyze metadata in near real-time from all wireless clients.