Powerful New Cloud CPE Solution Enables Flexible Deployment Models
for Automated and Cost-Effective Virtual Service Roll-Out
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
NXTWORK 2015–Juniper
Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network
innovation, today at its NXTWORK
2015 Customer Summit announced an expansion of its Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) portfolio that enables service providers to create
and automatically deploy new services faster than ever before at
industry-leading scale. Juniper’s new Cloud
CPE, a fully automated, end-to-end network functions virtualization
solution, builds on the proven ability of Juniper Networks® Contrail
Networking to scale across all models – whether on-premises or in
the cloud – to make service delivery from an end user’s perspective as
easy as downloading a new app.
Customers now expect networks to be on-demand, personalized, and to
deliver services in near real-time. Today’s rigid, hardware-centric
network infrastructures, however, make this impossible; it can be months
before a customer receives an ordered service. As such, global service
providers are looking to software-defined networking (SDN) and NFV to
automate cumbersome manual tasks and increase agility in rolling out
virtually managed services at the touch of a button, resulting in
greater revenue-generating opportunities, lower costs and enhanced
customer satisfaction.
To make this a reality, Juniper today is expanding its NFV portfolio
with Cloud CPE. This solution includes Contrail
Service Orchestration, a comprehensive management and
orchestration platform that delivers and manages virtualized network
services such as virtual security, and the NFX250,
the first in a series of network services platforms that can operate as
secure, on-premises devices running multiple virtual network functions,
from Juniper and third parties, simultaneously.
Built with an eye toward open standards for which Juniper is known,
Contrail Service Orchestration is designed to operate in multi-vendor
network environments and can orchestrate the entire service lifecycle –
from service design to activation – to dramatically improve the user
experience and enable new service revenue.
The NFX250, when used as part of Juniper’s Cloud CPE solution,
eliminates the operational complexities associated with deploying
multiple boxes at the customer site. Capable of running myriad virtual
functions on a single software-driven device, the NFX250 significantly
reduces costs and gives service providers the ability to update network
functions without having to purchase new hardware.
Juniper’s expanded technology portfolio builds upon other recently
announced solutions, including Contrail
Networking, Juniper Networks vSRX
Virtual Firewall and the Juniper Networks NorthStar
Controller, all unveiled in 2013, as well as the Juniper Networks vMX
virtual router and Contrail
Cloud Platform both announced in 2014. With these developments,
Juniper is delivering the industry’s most comprehensive virtualization
portfolio, enabling service scale and agility in the most open way
possible.
News Highlights
To help customers transition to software-centric networks that can
create new services in minutes versus months, Juniper is announcing the
following products:
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Contrail Service Orchestration is an integrated set of design,
automation and orchestration software solutions built on an open
framework, which is designed to enable third-party virtual network
functions (VNFs) to be easily supported and integrated with no
disruption to existing applications. As part of Juniper’s complete NFV
solution, which includes Contrail Networking, the Contrail Cloud
Platform and VNFs such as vMX, this software enables service providers
to easily roll out new, customized services to customers. Contrail
Service Orchestration is expected to be available in December.
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NFX Series Network Services Platforms operate as secure,
software-driven, on-premises devices, delivering the same
high-performance functionality as other physical CPE devices with
added automation and the flexibility to run multiple virtual services
to enable dynamic service creation in an open environment. The 1 RU
NFX250, which runs both Juniper and third-party virtual network
functions is expected to be available during the first half of 2016.
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To help customers evaluate and implement Juniper’s new Cloud CPE
solution, the company is introducing a lineup of new professional
services offerings. Cloud CPE Assessment Service, NFV OSS
Assessment Service and NFV Lifecycle Service help customers
and partners evaluate technology choices and develop a plan to
integrate them within existing network infrastructures. When leveraged
as an integral part of the Cloud CPE solution, the deep experience of
Juniper’s industry-leading service and support experts can help
minimize risk and speed time to deployment.
At NXTWORK 2015, Juniper
today also introduced a disaggregated version of the Junos software
to provide customers with the ability to deploy third-party network
services or applications directly on Juniper platforms, as well as the
option to program directly to Juniper systems using the Open Compute
Project-defined software model. Additionally, Juniper announced new QFX5200
access switches as well as rapid implementation of its Juniper
Networks MetaFabric™
architecture and Juniper
Networks Contrail SDN technologies across leading converged and
hyper converged stack solutions.
Supporting Quotes
"The success of cloud is being driven by how quickly developers can
build and deploy services and applications that have a meaningful impact
on the market. Importantly, companies must be able to deploy these apps
and services across multiple cloud environments with minimal
configuration. Combining IBM's strong cloud and systems integration
capabilities with Juniper's new offerings, service providers now have
access to quick deployment and scalability to meet the growing demands
of the industry."
- Scott Stainken, general manager of
Global Telecommunications Industry at IBM
“Enterprises and service providers alike are hamstrung by today’s rigid
tools that prevent them from bringing new services to market quickly and
efficiently. They tie up valuable resources in manual configuration and
onsite engineering, which makes installing new network services
difficult. From a solution provider’s standpoint, Juniper’s new Cloud
CPE solution has the potential to provide a truly automated NFV solution
that will enable SPs and enterprise customers to deploy and manage
virtual services in minutes.”
-Fiona Squire, chief operating
officer at Quonubes Group
“Juniper is taking a very holistic approach with the enhancements to its
NFV portfolio by offering end-to-end network service delivery and
orchestration. They are making it easier for service providers to offer
customized services both on the customer premise and in the cloud, which
will not only be advantageous to them, but also to their enterprise
customers.”
-Nav Chander, research manager, Enterprise Telecom
at IDC
“As more and more of our service provider customers look to realize real
business value from SDN and NFV, the need to have flexible solutions
that effectively scale is critical. With the innovations we’re
announcing today, service providers will be able to harness the power of
scale-out services to improve their service delivery economics. For us
at Juniper, it’s all about infusing automation into our customers’
networks to reduce time to market and speed time to revenue.”
-Jonathan
Davidson, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper
Development and Innovation at Juniper Networks
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