Juniper Networks Networking™ is a simple, open, and agile SDN solution that automates and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks. These virtual networks let you harness the power of the cloud—for new services, increased business agility, and revenue growth. Creates virtual networks that integrate seamlessly with existing physical networks, and that are easy to manage and orchestrate. Avoids expensive vendor lock—in with an open architecture that interoperates with a wide range of hypervisors, orchestration systems, and physical networks. Speeds time to market for new services by automating the creation of virtual networks that interconnect private, hybrid, and public clouds. Simple policy control—simple policy control for inserting and chaining virtual network functions speeds time to market for services and improves business agility and predictability. The Juniper Networks NFV™ solution enables you to lower your TCO through automation while improving visibility and simplifying your operations. You also gain additional increased agility through virtualization, allowing you to align your costs with gross and net revenue.

Future—proof for the cloud era with the open SDN solution for cloud and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) that improves business agility with predictable security, high availability, high performance, automation, and elasticity. Service providers can use Juniper Networks Contrail™ Networking to enable a range of innovative new services, including cloud—based offerings and virtualized managed services. The traditional way of implementing networks and services in hardware makes them static, rigid, manual, and unable to respond as application requirements rapidly change. For enterprises, Juniper Networks Contrail™ Networking can increase business agility by enabling the migration of applications and IT resources to more flexible private or hybrid cloud environments. Juniper Networks™ professional services offer a JumpStart™ service to help with the initial implementation and configuration of Juniper Networks  Contrail Networking™. Juniper Networks™ commitment to an open—platform, DevOps approach helps you stay flexible and minimizes risks by avoiding vendor lock—in. These elements enable a platform to rapidly deliver new services to market.

Network Functions Virtualization

Service providers today are facing a multitude of network challenges that hinder their ability to stay competitive. Foremost among these challenges is a rigid service delivery infrastructure and operating costs that seldom align with revenue. Compounding those problems, network operations are increasingly complex and expensive to maintain, driving up total cost of ownership (TCO). Juniper Networks™ solves these problems with a carrier—grade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solution that combines a turnkey software cloud management system and a supporting reference architecture based on virtualization and programmability. Juniper Networks NFV™ is a  programmable cloud reference architecture that leverages Contrail for a turnkey management and orchestration platform. Juniper Networks™ enhances the  Juniper Networks NFV™ solution with innovative management software and accelerate deployment with Juniper Networks Services™ and expert partners. The result is a production—ready suite of Juniper Networks NFV™ capabilities that intelligently orchestrates and automates the provisioning and operation of network functions, both virtualized and physical.

Software Defined Networking

Organizations are moving to the cloud 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.  Juniper Networks NFV™ is a  programmable cloud reference architecture that leverages Contrail™ for a turnkey management and orchestration platform. 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. REST API facilitates configuration, operational and analytical IT DevOps automation and integration with cloud orchestration systems. From network virtualization to integrated cloud management, Contrail™ delivers freedom of choice, intelligent automation, and always—on reliability for cloud, software—defined WAN (SD—WAN), and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environments.

Features And Benefits

Infrastructure analytics and visualization provide insights into virtual and physical networks to simplify operations and decision—making through proactive planning and predictive diagnostics. Elastic, resilient VPN—elastic, resilient VPN delivers openly standardized L3VPN and E—VPN style overlay that can easily span cloud boundaries with federation. High—speed connection to legacy networks—gateway services in both software and vendor—agnostic hardware—Juniper Networks MX™ series 3D universal edge routers and Juniper Networks QFX™ series switches seamlessly offer high—speed connection to legacy networked workloads. The hypervisor—level vRouter forwarding plane provides line—rate overlay packet processing in a multitenant virtualized, containerized, or bare—metal environment completely decoupled from the underlying physical fabric switches. Network virtualization—network virtualization enables customized secure networks in a multitenant environment. Open system architecture—open source, open standards, and open interfaces in the system architecture ensure transparency, vendor—agnostic interoperability, and a future—proof platform.