{"id":15788,"date":"2020-11-05T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:59:19","slug":"eun-deploys-juniper-networks-solutions-to-enable-advanced-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/eun-deploys-juniper-networks-solutions-to-enable-advanced-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"EUN deploys Juniper Networks solutions to enable advanced learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Juniper Networks announced that Egyptian Universities Network (EUN), connecting public universities across Egypt, providing applications and services that researchers, students and staff need,\u00a0has deployed Juniper\u2019s core network solutions to enable\u00a0advanced learning and collaboration for 27 public universities\u00a0across Egypt.\u00a0By providing a reliable, stable and secure <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">WAN<\/a>, EUN is able to offer first-class <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/voip\/\">VoIP<\/a>, internet access, email and video conferencing for students and staff, academics and researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt is in the midst of an education resurgence, following the government declaring 2019 as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/Article\/2\/66545\/2019-The-year-of-education\">Year of Education<\/a>.\u201d Egypt\u2019s public education system is the largest across Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East, and nearly three million students are currently enrolled in Egypt\u2019s universities. EUN relies on Juniper\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniper.net\/us\/en\/products-services\/routing\/mx-series\/\">MX Series Universal Routing Platform<\/a> for secure connectivity. Researchers, students and academics can collaborate with their peers around the world\u00a0using interconnections to key international research and education networks, including Arab States Research and Education Network (AREN), European Academic and Research Network (EARN), Internet2 and GEANT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>News highlights:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The technology deployment from Juniper has provided a host of operational benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>With the core network now running at multiple\u00a0Gbps, universities and scientific institutions can connect to EUN at high speeds. Students and professors have fast access to bandwidth-heavy digital coursework and libraries. Classes can be streamed and recorded easily and video\u00a0conferences are high quality with reliable connections, improving the user experience significantly.<\/li><li>Simplified network operations with best-in-class network\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0the universities can now make requests for shared applications that EUN can easily fulfill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>Universities are requested to add <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/vpn\/\">VPN <\/a>capacity on-demand. With the upgraded network, EUN can accommodate the universities\u2019 requests for more capacity for internet usage.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To accomplish this, EUN implemented the following Juniper solutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As traffic volumes grew, EUN chose to upgrade its <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">WAN\u00a0<\/a>with Juniper Networks\u00ae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniper.net\/us\/en\/products-services\/routing\/mx-series\/mx104\/\">MX104 Universal Routing Platform<\/a>. The upgrade was completed without any downtime. The modular MX104 platform is ideal for space- and power-constrained environments. Deep-packet inspection detects applications and determines traffic treatment on a per-application basis, enabling highly-customized and differentiated services at scale. Powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniper.net\/uk\/en\/products-services\/nos\/junos\/\">Juniper Networks Junos\u00ae OS<\/a> and the programmable Junos\u00a0Trio chipset, the MX104 shares the same advanced routing, switching, security and service features that are available in larger MX Series platforms, including a wide range of L2\/L3 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/vpn\/\">VPN services<\/a> to support this mission-critical research and education network.<\/li><li>Juniper in-service software upgrade (ISSU) features, as well as the built-in automation of Junos OS, minimized downtime risks associated with implementing new hardware and helped the team deploy the new routers without introducing errors from manual entry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s public education system is the largest across Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East, and nearly three million students are currently enrolled in Egypt\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9685],"tags":[4891,4892,4885,4894,4893,4896,4197,4895,3396,882,2791,4887],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-middle-east","tag-aren","tag-earn","tag-eun","tag-geant","tag-internet2","tag-issu","tag-juniper-networks","tag-mx-series-platforms","tag-voip","tag-vpn","tag-wan","tag-year-of-education"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Yarob-Sakhnini-Vice-President-Sales-Emerging-Markets-EMEA-Juniper-Networks.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}