Extended Partnership Provides Carrier-Grade, Scalable OpenStack
Clouds for Telcos to Build IP Platforms that Support Network Functions
Virtualization and Software Defined Networking Solutions
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Juniper
Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, and Canonical,
the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the
enterprise, today announced an expansion of their global partnership
with a co-developed carrier-grade, OpenStack software solution that will
enable service providers to virtualize core networks and network
functions for increased performance, scale and reliability. Juniper will
also provide complete service support for Canonical’s Ubuntu
Server operating system (OS) and Ubuntu OpenStack as part of Juniper
Networks® Contrail™ Cloud.
Service providers are working to profitably address growing end-user
demand for data capacity while more quickly delivering new, innovative
services to subscribers. To accomplish this, carriers are continually
looking to cloud platforms to make their infrastructure more agile and
automated to support these goals. By combining Juniper Networks’
expertise in cloud network offerings for telecommunications customers
with Canonical’s OpenStack and open source leadership, Canonical and
Juniper are providing open, scalable, cost-effective, and carrier-grade
cloud solutions on which carriers can build a virtualized IP platform
and support network functions virtualization (NFV).
OpenStack
has emerged as a preferred open-source cloud management platform based
on its openness, interoperability, flexibility and large highly active
community of users, developers and vendors. It has also established
itself as the platform of choice for NFV workloads. According to the
most recent OpenStack
Foundation global survey, Ubuntu is the most popular host and guest
operating system for OpenStack, with more than half of all OpenStack
instances running Ubuntu, and 70 percent of the Public Cloud Guest
operating system market.
Contrail
Networking’s connection with Ubuntu Server OS and Ubuntu OpenStack
as the default platform for cloud deployments began with Juniper
Networks and the OpenContrail
project participating in Canonical’s
OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL), an integration lab in which
Canonical tests its cloud partners’ products in Ubuntu OpenStack
configurations, for automated testing of Contrail with Ubuntu OpenStack.
The addition of the joint carrier-grade OpenStack solution will leverage
and expand on OIL to provide enhanced testing to ensure the solution
meets the demanding needs of carriers.
News Highlights:
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Juniper Networks and Canonical have developed Contrail Cloud Platform,
a joint carrier-grade OpenStack solution for cloud and converged NFV
infrastructure that now integrates Contrail Networking with
Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack and Ubuntu Server OS for enhanced
performance, scale and reliability.
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Juniper Networks is selling and fully supporting Contrail Cloud
Platform deployments in coordination with Canonical support for all
Ubuntu OS and Ubuntu OpenStack components.
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Juniper Networks and Canonical will collaborate and coordinate product
development, engineering, marketing and upstream contributions to
continue to expand an open and functioning OpenStack ecosystem for
service providers to deliver cloud and NFV solutions.
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As part of the joint agreement, Juniper Networks and Canonical will
work with customers to incorporate service provider requirements into
OpenStack, NFV and SDN open source projects.
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Juniper Networks continues to participate in Canonical’s OIL with
Contrail for automated testing against Ubuntu OpenStack.
Supporting Quotes
“Juniper Networks firmly believes that open source and open standards
will continue to drive greater levels of innovation and is pleased to
partner with Canonical to help drive faster adoption of the cloud for
telecommunication organizations. Our jointly developed converged Ubuntu
and Juniper OpenStack solution will help deliver greater performance,
scalability and reliability at lower costs.”
- Ankur Singla,
corporate vice president and general manager, cloud software, Juniper
Networks
“Juniper and Canonical are leading the OpenStack innovation agenda by
jointly developing a virtualization solution that will help service
providers accelerate cloud deployments for greater agility. Juniper’s
Contrail addresses the carrier-class issues of virtualized environments
and accelerates elastic service delivery across multi-tenant, hybrid
cloud OpenStack deployments across a multi-vendor ecosystem. By
combining Juniper’s open network solutions and leadership in the
telecommunications industry with Canonical’s leadership in OpenStack and
scale-out open source, we will jointly be able to deliver cloud
solutions that enable carriers to meet their network modernization
challenges.”
- John Zannos, vice president, cloud channels and
alliances, Canonical
“OpenStack networking is a critical issue for large enterprises and
service providers to solve, particularly in higher-level areas such as
network functions virtualization (NFV), agility and automation. Joint
support from Canonical and Juniper and both companies’ participation in
the OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) helps to meet the performance,
scale, reliability and security needs of carrier-grade customers.”
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Jay Lyman, research manager, 451 Research
“Wingu is a key African public cloud service provider that is launching
commercial Infrastructure-as-a-Service services later this year to
address the challenges that businesses face when deploying applications
and workloads in the cloud. With XON as its strategic investor and
Juniper Networks as a valued partner, the Wingu platform will be used to
develop advanced SDN and NFV solutions. This
latest technology integration between Canonical and Juniper provides a
stable, scalable and agile platform for Wingu to deliver cloud services,
allowing them to leverage the best open source and commercial platforms
and expertise."
- Thomas Lee, general manager, Cloud
Services at XON Systems
Additional Resources
About Canonical
Canonical
produces Ubuntu,
the leading open-source platform for cloud, personal computing and
next-generation devices.
Ubuntu introduces a new mobile experience for phone users, a smarter
ecosystem dynamic for developers, and unprecedented differentiation
opportunities for carriers and device manufacturers. Ubuntu ships on
millions of PCs annually, aimed at education, government and enterprise
markets. Ubuntu also enables next-generation devices at the heart of the
internet of things.
Ubuntu is used in 80% of production OpenStack cloud deployments
worldwide. Canonical’s scale-out expertise and orchestration technology
enable software-defined-networks and storage, providing the platform of
choice for network equipment providers and operators.
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) delivers innovation across routing,
switching and security. From the network core down to consumer devices,
Juniper Networks’ innovations in software, silicon and systems transform
the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can
be found at Juniper
Networks (www.juniper.net)
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