Lotus F1 Team, currently standing a close fourth in the Constructors’ Championship after the first seven races, has built a mission-critical network infrastructure using Juniper Network’s portfolio of switching, security, wireless LAN, routing and application software solutions to improve flexibility and enhance performance.
In addition, Lotus F1 Team has deployed Juniper QFabric technology in its two data centers to flatten the network architecture to reduce latency and improve performance, creating a mission-critical, carrier-class private cloud environment. The LAN (Local Area Network) connectivity across Lotus F1 Team’s headquarters campus in Oxfordshire, U.K. provides a reliable, high-performance fixed and wireless network platform to power vital, data-intensive functions such as the company’s research, development, and design suite, wind tunnel facility, and engineering shop.
Patrick Louis, CEO, Lotus F1 Team, “From the design concept of each season’s car, through component engineering and production to testing, qualifying and competing at each race, we have to deliver innovation and excellence with no margin for failure, error or delay. Our network underpins the entire operation, so we need a partner who is equally innovative and reliable, and who can secure the highly valuable data we share across the team. Juniper enables Lotus F1 Team to build the best network so we can strive to be the best Grand Prix team.”
In the future, Juniper will also provide LAN, WAN (Wide Area Network) and remote connectivity trackside at Grand Prix races globally and at numerous testing sessions.
“Grand Prix racing is literally a fast-moving enterprise, with a highly-competitive, success-driven culture. Trackside conditions are particularly challenging, with heat, dust, vibration and the need to build and tear down a reliable, secure network infrastructure quickly in a new location every couple of weeks or so. We are very excited by the prospect of Juniper’s technology operating in this environment and playing a part in Lotus F1 Team’s 2013 campaign and beyond,” said Sean Dolan, Senior Vice President-EMEA, Juniper Networks.
