Vodafone Selects Juniper Networks as an Enterprise Global SD-WAN Partner
September 25 2018 - 3:00AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced that Vodafone has
selected the company as one of its Software-Defined Wide Area
Network (SD-WAN) vendors for its enterprise-focused SDN portfolio,
referred to as ‘Ready Network.’ Vodafone’s portfolio will comprise
flexible, cloud-based services that are designed to underpin
digital business at scale, helping enterprises to compete
effectively using agile, open and fast infrastructure with
zero-touch deployment.
Juniper provides a secure, virtualized and dynamic network
platform for one of Vodafone’s SD-WAN offerings. The solution
delivers better control and cost optimization by allowing
enterprises to manage multiple sites using a combination of WAN
connectivity types to ensure application-level quality of
experience. Juniper’s solution is built upon universal customer
premises equipment (uCPE) that allows multiple virtualized network
functions to be delivered from a single device. Vodafone’s
enterprise customers will now have a self-care portal providing
real-time, end-to-end visibility and analysis of network
performance, as well as centralized selection, provisioning and
management of their required WAN services. For example,
bandwidth-on-demand can be dialed up and down to suit traffic flows
across the WAN in response to changing business requirements, and
centralized security policies can be adjusted and enforced across
the network.
News Highlights
- A key element of the Juniper
Networks® Contrail® SD-WAN solution provided to Vodafone
is its Contrail Service Orchestration, delivering automation,
simplicity and openness to the design. Operating within a
multi-vendor, multi-tenant environment, it ensures secure
implementation, analysis and management of each unique network.
Contrail Service Orchestration is used by Vodafone to oversee parts
of its SD-WAN services infrastructure for enterprises. It
also provides Vodafone enterprise customers with a customized,
easy-to-use self-serve portal.
- Contrail Service Orchestration is designed to unite policies
and security controls across hybrid WAN connections, including
IPSec, MPLS, broadband Internet and 4G/LTE wireless.
- The Juniper Networks NFX Series Network Services Platform is
deployed at each customer location to enable dynamic, virtualized
WAN service creation and to host the virtual next-generation
firewall and advanced cloud-based threat protection capability in a
single unit.
- The software-driven NFX Series enables zero-touch, secure
service creation, enabling new branches to be brought online easily
and cost-effectively with a single keystroke.
- The NFX Series integrates fully with Contrail, delivering the
flexibility and openness required by Vodafone’s large enterprise
customers.
- By delivering comprehensive SD-WAN services, Vodafone is
extending the competitive reach of its enterprise connectivity
portfolio and focusing on future-looking innovations in line with
overall digitization and underlying trends including 5G, industrial
IoT, Big Data and cloudification.
Supporting Quotes
“We see SD-WAN as an important capability for many of our
enterprise customers and believe that Juniper offers a
feature-rich, cloud-enabled secure networking uCPE portfolio that
will help us to provide those customers with strong, flexible and
agile solutions as they move through complex digital
transformations.”Vodafone Enterprise Products and Solutions
director Justin Shields
“The advent of 5G, the transition of applications and resources
to the cloud, and the prevalence of IoT in the workplace,
make the prospect of digital transformation for many enterprises
enticing and daunting in equal measure. Juniper’s focus on
simplifying the network will enable Vodafone’s enterprise customers
to more easily leverage the advantages of multicloud and a growing
mobile workforce, without being burdened by the growing
complexities of WAN connectivity. This will free their customers to
focus on the most important aspects of their business. We’re proud
to be a valued technology partner of Vodafone, employing Juniper’s
strong commitment to open, secure networking to bring Vodafone’s
next-generation services to market.” Rami Rahim, Chief
Executive Officer at Juniper Networks
“Enterprise customers are looking for simplicity, functionality
and optimized TCO (total cost of ownership) as they come to grips
with building flexible cloud capabilities into their
infrastructure. Vodafone’s SD-WAN solution provided by Juniper
delivers just that, with reduced hardware requirements, innovative
use of the cloud and software-defined infrastructure.”Luca
Claretti, Global Account Director for Vodafone Group at Juniper
Networks
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