America’s Test Kitchen Cooks Up a Radically Simpler Data Center Network
Fueled by consumers’ rising interest in at-home cooking, America’s Test Kitchen has a fast-growing media business, which includes popular television shows, magazines, websites, books, and an online cooking school. To support growth and expansion at scale, America’s Test Kitchen built a brand-new IT infrastructure.
Overview
| Company | America's Test Kitchen |
| Industry | Media and Entertainment |
| Products used | QFX5100 , EX4300 , SRX1500 , Advanced Threat Prevention , Security Director |
| Region | Americas |
Business Challenge
America’s Test Kitchen sought to simplify and strengthen IT operations with a network that would provide easier management, integrated security, and scalability. The company also needed to ensure that its staff has fast, reliable access to applications, video, and other huge media files.
Building Simplicity into the Data Center Fabric
America’s Test Kitchen began its journey by deploying a QFX5100 Switch and EX4300 Ethernet Switch at its headquarters and data center, centralizing management and visibility of the entire network. Among the other changes to its network, the media company strengthened security operations with centralized event monitoring, automated policy enforcement, and real-time threat protection and segregation.
Business Results
With its radically simpler, operationally more efficient network, America’s Test Kitchen has:
- Built a high-performance, scalable infrastructure that allows IT to respond to changing business conditions.
- Strengthened cybersecurity with integrated, advanced protection.
- Enabled end-to-end visibility through a single pane of glass.
- Reduced administrative overhead and lowered TCO.
- Laid the solid foundation for a multicloud future.
Related Content
Visit our Elevate Speaker Series podcast to hear a candid discussion with America's Test Kitchen about the company's strategies, best practices, and more.
The Products
The QFX5100 line of top-of-rack 10/40GbE switches for the data center offers low latency, deployment versatility, and rich automation features. These switches provide universal building blocks for industry-standard architectures such as spine-and-leaf fabrics.
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches are compact, fixed-configuration platforms that satisfy a variety of high-performance campus and data center access needs.
Protect your network edge, data center, and cloud applications with Juniper next-generation physical, virtual, and containerized firewalls.
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.
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.
Visualize, analyze, and control your enterprise campus network.
