FiberLight (News - Alert) sells networking services including metro Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET), and Dark Fiber optical transport network products. Recently, company officials needed to enable the company’s planned launch of a Dedicated IP platform for enterprise and government customers.

To that end, they knew they needed a high-performance, low-latency, scalable core router platform and an implementation partner with significant communications expertise. They solved the first problem by selecting Juniper Networks (News - Alert) MX Series Routers technology for its core routing platform, and solved the second problem by signing IBM to take care of it.

This way, company officials said, FiberLight can offer customers “high-speed, secure and scalable network services” at competitive prices. They saw the growth in demand for Internet services as a market opportunity, and launched a Dedicated IP platform for enterprise and government customers across 23 US markets.

Ben Edmond, executive vice president of Sales & Marketing for FiberLight, said they decided to purpose-build an enterprise-only offering for their IP network that “segments traffic from network service providers and web-centric companies that typically have higher burst levels and are more prone to network attacks.”

The IBM (News - Alert) and Juniper Networks solution enables FiberLight to bundle its core fiber network product with high-speed Internet connectivity on a single, consolidated network.

A couple months ago TMC’s (News - Alert) Jai C.S. wrote that Juniper said its MX Series Universal Edge Routers running the Junos operating system are currently being deployed by Tenaga Nasional Berhad, a power utility in Southeast Asia to migrate corporate and non-real time operational data traffic to the first phase of a new IP/MPLS backbone.

"We worked with our partners to come up with a complete solution to achieve Tenaga Nasional's goal of converging all non-real time data traffic onto an IP network, leveraging its existing SDH infrastructure, while also ensuring stringent levels of security and reliability required by an electricity utility," Mike Marcellin (News - Alert), vice president, product marketing and business strategy, Platform Systems Group, Juniper Networks said.