Juniper Networks and Canonical Partner to Deliver OpenStack-Based Cloud Solutions for the Telecommunications Industry
February 26 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Extended Partnership Provides Carrier-Grade,
Scalable OpenStack Clouds for Telcos to Build IP Platforms that
Support Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined
Networking Solutions
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:
- 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.
- Juniper Networks is selling and fully
supporting Contrail Cloud Platform deployments in coordination with
Canonical support for all Ubuntu OS and Ubuntu OpenStack
components.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”- 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
- Juniper Networks Contrail:
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/sdn/contrail/
- Juniper.net
Community: www.juniper.net/community
- Juniper on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Junipernetworks
- Juniper on
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JuniperNetworks
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) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and
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