Juniper Networks and Mirantis Partner over SDN

Juniper Networks and Mirantis have announced an expanded engineering partnership that provides customers with a reliable, open-source software-defined networking (SDN) fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale. Mirantis OpenStack, an OpenStack distribution that is easy to install and operate at scale, will now support and interoperate with Juniper Contrail Networking, a standards-based SDN solution for enterprise and service provider customers. Mirantis OpenStack also supports and interoperates with OpenContrail, an open-source SDN solution.

“Mirantis is the go-to vendor for building an OpenStack cloud. Integration of Mirantis OpenStack with Juniper Contrail Networking gives the enterprise-grade support that customers expect for large-scale open-source cloud deployments,” said Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Software, Juniper Networks. “By providing developers, partners and customers a proven, open-source reference architecture, together Mirantis and Juniper will help accelerate adoption, foster new innovation and help customers realize the benefits of SDN more quickly.”


“Real-life customer installations demonstrate that Juniper Contrail Networking works at scale for OpenStack,” said Jason Venner, Mirantis, Chief Architect and OpenContrail Advisory Board Member. “By leveraging Juniper Contrail Networking with Mirantis OpenStack, companies can reliably operate large production OpenStack clouds with software-defined networking, improving data center performance, automation and scalability. Plus, its open-source and proven open-standard protocols offer customers future-proofing and investment protection in how they architect their cloud.”.. See more