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Contrail Networking
Contrail Networking is a cloud-native, software-defined networking (SDN) solution. It automates the creation and management of virtual networks, letting you connect, isolate, and secure workloads in private and public clouds. Integrated with OpenStack, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, it provides hybrid SDN orchestration and centralized control of virtualized switching, routing, security, load balancing, and more.
Contrail is suited to multicluster environments shared by many tenants, teams, applications, and engineering phases. It scales across tenants, virtual networks, policies, and compute instances to manage virtual network clusters of thousands of nodes in the most demanding environments.
Key Features
- Hybrid SDN for Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack
- Advanced routing, optional overlays, and virtual network topologies
- Ingress controller and load balancing
- Security and service chaining
- Hard multitenancy and namespace isolation
- Multicluster management / federation
- High availability and vRouter network performance to 100 Gbps
- GitOps and CI/CD pipeline services
- Analytics and flow telemetry integrated with Prometheus and InfluxDB
- Plug-in for Lens GUI and integration with Grafana
- API services
Features + Benefits
Cloud-Native Networking
Integrates virtualized and containerized workloads into a hybrid SDN to simplify cloud-native migration.
NetOps-Driven Automation
Delivers infrastructure as code to achieve software quality at hyperscaler efficiency and speed.
Ultra-Fast Performance
Distributed data plane with kernel-mode, DPDK, and SmartNIC acceleration for delivering SLA-conformant telco services.
Enhanced Observability
Plug-and-play usability for open-source software provides ease of use, platform flexibility, and low cost.
Fast Linkages to Existing Networks
Gateway services provide high-speed, seamless connections to legacy network workloads to unify and simplify cloud operations.
Container Security
Delivers microsegmentation, encryption, and security at Layers 4–7 for cloud-native applications when paired with the cSRX Container Firewall.
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CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Building a New SDN and NFV Network Service Infrastructure with Juniper
Orange Business Services is a global IT and communications services provider with customers in 220 countries. Connectivity services are at the heart of its offerings, representing a third of its business. The provider partnered with Juniper to deliver more agile services through automation and virtualization.
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