Cloud services provider Zenlayer renewed its commitment to Juniper Networks' stack today, announcing plans to roll out the vendor's appliances across its global backbone as part of a cloud services expansion.

Zenlayer specializes in on-demand bare-metal cloud, SD-WAN, cloud networking, and managed services across more than 180 points of presence on six continents. The cloud provider now aims to expand its service offerings to emerging markets, including those in Southeast Asia, South America, Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

To achieve these goals, Zenlayer is once again turning to Juniper for help. The company has already deployed Juniper's MX series Universal Routing Platform to add capacity to its backbone network; rolled out QFX and SRX series switches and firewalls in its data centers; implemented segment routing to address capacity demands; and begun leveraging Juniper's artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) capabilities to drive automation throughout the network.

The company claims these capabilities will enable Zenlayer to achieve the capacity and latency required to bring services like gaming, video streaming, and research and development to these new markets.

In a statement, Zenlayer VP of Product and Platform Ansan Chen said the company's success thus far has been thanks in large part to strategic partnerships with networking vendors like Juniper, which have helped the cloud provider address scalability concerns and better serve customers.

Juniper's routing and service provider revenues have been a key driver of recovery, while cloud sales fell short of expectations during the company's most recent earnings call. While the vendor has shown steady gains quarter over quarter, Juniper has struggled to return to year-over-year growth.

Juniper saw service provider and enterprise verticals grow by 8% and 11%, while the company's routing business grew 7% quarter over quarter, helping to offset an 11% sequential decline in cloud revenues.

Juniper's Zenlayer contract win this week lends credence to CFO Ken Miller's assertion that cloud sales would begin to cover over the next few quarters.