Contrail Networking

Overview

Juniper Networks Contrail 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.

SIMPLE: Creates virtual networks that integrate seamlessly with existing physical networks, and that are easy to manage and orchestrate.

OPEN: Avoids expensive vendor-lock with an open architecture that interoperates with a wide range hypervisors, orchestration systems, and physical networks.

AGILE: Speeds time to market for new services by automating the creation of virtual networks that interconnect private, hybrid, and public clouds.

Service providers can use Contrail Networking to enable a range of innovative new services, including cloud-based offerings and virtualized managed services. For enterprises, Contrail Networking can increase business agility by enabling the migration of applications and IT resources to more flexible private or hybrid cloud environments.

Features

• Network virtualization enables customized secure networks in a multitenant environment.
• Simple policy control for inserting and chaining virtual network functions speeds time to market for services and improves business agility and predictability.
• Open source, open standards, and open interfaces in the system architecture ensure transparency, vendor-agnostic interoperability, and a future-proof platform.
• Infrastructure analytics and visualization provide insights into virtual and physical networks to simplify operations and decision making through proactive planning and predictive diagnostics.
• 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.
• Elastic, resilient VPN delivers openly standardized L3VPN and E-VPN style overlay that can easily span cloud boundaries with federation.
• Gateway services in both software and vendor-agnostic hardware—Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and QFX Series switches, for example—seamlessly offer high-speed connection to legacy networked workloads.
• REST API facilitates configuration, operational, and analytical IT DevOps automation and integration with cloud orchestration systems.

vMX

The vMX is a virtual MX Series 3D Universal Edge Router that extends 15+ years of Juniper Networks edge routing expertise to the virtual realm. The vMX is a full-featured, carrier-grade router with complete control, forwarding and management planes. It runs the Junos Operating System, and supports vTrio packet handling and forwarding by compiling the programmable Junos Trio chipset microcode for x86 chipsets.

The vMX supports sophisticated routing services, including vPE and vCPE, and is ideally suited for rapid service scale out and agile service introduction and modification for both service provider and enterprise applications. With its granular, ‘pay as you grow’ licensing model, the vMX reduces the risk associated with new market entry and service innovation and allows you to start small, move fast, and stay profitable. Not only is it an ideal platform for markets and applications that are difficult to serve with traditional hardware routers, it is also a great option for proof of concept validation, lab testing and feature and release certification.

Features

• Carrier-grade routing implementation optimized for the x86 environment.
• Rapid service enablement by leveraging virtualization technology.
• Leverages current and future Junos OS and Junos Trio R&D efforts.
• Pay-as-you-grow licensing model for granular network scale-out.
• Consistency with physical MX Series portfolio simplifies operations.
• Enables new service introductions without reconfiguring current routing infrastructure.