Create true business agility and operational excellence through network virtualization, orchestration and automation enabled by intelligent, reliable and open SDN from Juniper Networks™. As the speed of change increases, organizations are moving to the cloud for its promise of limitless scale, flexibility and agility. But the wide adoption of cloud—as well as mobile, M2M and big data applications, is having profound impacts on IT infrastructures. The traditional way of implementing networks and services in hardware makes them static, rigid, manual, and unable to respond as application requirements rapidly change. To pull off this transition with a minimum of disruption, organizations want to architect their networks to meet the connectivity and service requirements of these increasingly dynamic applications. They need to be policy driven, programmable, scalable and automated to connect ideas to opportunities. Dynamic service chaining. Creates policy driven, software controlled, on—demand service chain customization based on customers’ business policies. Scale out software architecture can expand elastically and handle failures gracefully. Provides anytime availability of the cloud for operation, activation, and management of application workloads.

Software—defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network virtualization that seeks to optimize network resources and quickly adapt networks to changing business needs, applications, and traffic. It works by separating the network’s control plane and the data plane, creating software programmable infrastructure that is distinct from physical devices. With SDN, the functions of network orchestration, management, analytics, and automation become the job of SDN controllers. Because these controllers are not networking devices, they can take advantage of the scale, performance, and availability of modern cloud computing and storage resources. Increasingly, SDN controllers are built on open platforms, using open standards and open APIs, enabling them to orchestrate, manage, and control network equipment from different vendors. IP/MPLS traffic management and engineering solution. WANDL IP/MPLSView™ is a multivendor, multi protocol, and multilayer operations support systems (OSS) traffic management and engineering solution for IP and MPLS networks.

SDN Provides An Open, Agile And Elastic Infrastructure

Support for business continuity and critical applications is gained through highly available, highly secure and seamlessly scalable software and hardware. Flexible deployment options allow implementation to be started anywhere in the network with the ability to evolve over time. Multi vendor support and seamless interoperability between physical and virtual elements avoids expensive vendor lock in and allows choices that future proof the infrastructure. Insights based on data derived knowledge of network operations guides automation decisions and closes the infrastructure provisioning feedback loop through a policy driven, programmable infrastructure. Analytics collected from all infrastructure resources with correlations between virtual and physical layers improves measurement and visibility, capacity planning and optimization, troubleshooting, and network telemetry. NorthStar Controller™—multilayer SDN control puts an end to overprovisioning. NorthStar™ traffic optimization WAN SDN controller automates the creation of traffic engineering paths across the network, increasing network utilization and enabling a customized programmable networking experience.

SDN Separates Control And Transport Layers

NFV offers the ability to virtualize appliance based network functions such as firewalls, load balancers, and WAN accelerators. The centralized control that SDN provides can efficiently manage and orchestrate virtual network functions that are enabled by NFV. Capacity upgrades should be targeted, service driven, and capable of adapting dynamically to constantly evolving customer needs in real—time. Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ proves a powerful and flexible solution, Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ provides granular visibility into, and control over, IP/MPLS flows in large service provider and enterprise networks. Using Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™, operators can optimize their network infrastructure through proactive monitoring and planning, and dynamically create explicit routing paths using a global view that’s based on user defined constraints. With the power of Junos OS™, WANDL optimization algorithms, and transport abstraction, Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller™ enables efficient design, bringing new levels of control and visibility that help you avoid costly over provisioning. Move to a more efficient operational model to rein in spending.

Features And Benefits

Easy operations—automated resource provisioning, configuration, and operation of compute, storage, and networking resources. Minimizes manual intervention while improving operational efficiency and reducing operational cost. Also provides real—time and historical data availability via simple REST APIs. Speeds time to market for new services by automating the creation of virtual networks that interconnect private, hybrid, and public clouds. Avoids expensive vendor lock with an open architecture that interoperates with a wide range hypervisors, orchestration systems, and physical networks. Creates virtual networks that integrate seamlessly with existing physical networks, and that are easy to manage and orchestrate. Juniper networks contrail™—from network virtualization and automation to turnkey integrated cloud management, Juniper Networks Contrail™ delivers freedom of choice, intelligent automation and always—on reliability for cloud and NFV. From network virtualization to integrated cloud management, Contrail™ delivers freedom of choice, intelligent automation, and always on reliability for cloud, software defined WAN, and NFV environments.