Customer Success Story
Frasers Property Australia realizes the value of experience-first networking
Frasers Property Australia and Frasers Property Industrial are part of the Australian platform of Frasers Property Limited, a multi-national real estate company with assets of approximately S$40.7 billion as at 31 March 2022.
Frasers Property Australia plans, delivers, and manages projects through the full property cycle across the mixed-use, residential, commercial, retail and build-to-rent sectors. Since 1924, it has built over 145,000 homes in stronger, smarter, happier neighborhoods. Frasers Property Industrial owns and manages industrial and logistics properties in Australia and Europe. With approximately S$10.9 billion in assets under management, its portfolio includes logistics, warehouse and production facilities. The company provides integrated development, asset management and third-party capital management across the Group’s industrial and logistics markets.
Frasers Property Australia’s and Frasers Property Industrial’s team in Australia are migrating 35 residential and commercial properties to Juniper’s AI-driven enterprise network solution to deliver an optimized experience for customers, visitors, and staff from client to cloud.
Overview
| Company | Frasers Property Australia and Frasers Property Industrial – Australia |
| Industry | Real Estate |
| Products used | Wired Assurance, Security Director |
| Region | APAC |
5
Minutes to make network changes down from six weeks
35
properties using Juniper networking and security
Fix network-related issues proactively
Simplify connectivity at diverse properties
Whether a residential, retail, commercial, industrial, or hospitality property, Wi-Fi is a basic need.
“Every residential, commercial, industrial, and retail property is challenging in its own way,” says Grant Barnes, system engineer at Frasers Property. “In addition, we often develop in greenfield sites that have no network infrastructure at all.”
As the need for business agility and IT efficiency grew, the organization’s previous choice of cloud-managed Wi-Fi began to become a burden.
Frasers Property needed secure networking it could deploy quickly and consistently deliver optimized user experiences while simplifying IT operations.
“Using Juniper networking and security for our site-in-a-box gives us flexibility on how and where we deploy projects,” says Barnes.
Experience-first networking from Sydney to Perth to the cloud
With Juniper’s AI-driven network solution, visitors and tenants have a superior Wi-Fi experience at Burwood Brickworks Shopping Centre, Frasers Property Australia’s architecturally designed and internationally acclaimed mixed-use development in Melbourne, Australia. In 2021 Burwood Brickworks Shopping Centre, was recognized as the world’s most sustainable shopping center – as the first to achieve Living Building Challenge® Petal Certification.
Wired and wireless connectivity at several other of the company’s Australian properties is provided by Juniper. Residents, visitors, and employees can take advantage of fast, secure wireless internet. Security cameras, IP phones, and wireless access points are securely connected.
Properties, headquarters, sales offices, construction sites, and data centers are seamlessly connected to a flexible enterprise network fabric with secure connectivity to Microsoft Azure.
Optimized network experience for shoppers, residents, and staff
“When staff walk into an office, they turn on their laptop, and have access to everything,” says Barnes. “Staff have the same experience whether they’re in the head office or in a construction site in Western Sydney.”
Juniper’s AI-driven networking has streamlined IT operations, enabling the team to deploy more technology with the same resources. With Mist AI, IT can automate key network tasks, proactively address issues, and provides unparalleled insight into user, device, and application behavior for a better user experience.
The experience has been transformative. “When I gave a presentation on Juniper, Mist AI, and Marvis, my general manager asked if we hired someone new,” says Barnes.
Frasers Property Australia Selects Juniper Networks to Simplify Connectivity and Enhance End-User Experience
The Products
Wired Assurance
The Juniper Mist Wired Assurance service brings Mist AI to access-layer switching. It sets a new network management standard with AI-native operations and automation, improving the experiences of devices connected to resources through Juniper EX Series Switches.
Security Director
Centralized security management, network-wide visibility and analytics, and unified policy orchestration secure your network and expand zero trust from the edge into the data center.
The EX Series Ethernet Switches are cloud-ready, high-performance access and aggregation/core layer switches designed for enterprise branch, campus, and data center networks. Wired access networks don’t have to be complex—you can reduce risk and cost without compromising performance, quality, and innovation.
QFX network switches deliver industry-leading throughput and scalability, a comprehensive routing stack, the open programmability of Junos OS, and the broadest set of EVPN-VXLAN and IP fabric capabilities. Juniper offers a wide range of switches for data center spine and leaf switches, campus distribution and core, or data center gateway and interconnect.
Protect your network edge, data center, and cloud applications with Juniper next-generation physical, virtual, and containerized firewalls, all managed via Juniper Security Director Cloud.
Published March 2022