Juniper Networks Gives Service Providers a Powerful Edge with New Contrail Solution
September 17 2018 - 7:45AM
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in
automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced a new
software solution that gives service providers a near-limitless
ability to cost effectively deploy new revenue-generating services
at the network edge. Juniper’s new Contrail Edge Cloud packs the
industry’s most functionality into the smallest footprint among
competitors to bring a full-fledged secure cloud experience to the
space- and power-constrained edge network, which includes base
stations, hub sites and switching sites.
Insatiable demand for connectivity and a need to continually
invent new revenue sources have driven service providers to
decentralize their network architecture and move latency-sensitive
applications and services - including connected cars, AR/VR and
upcoming 5G services - from the core to the edge. While this part
of the network serves as a key competitive asset that operators can
leverage in moving beyond offering mere connectivity services, the
edge also poses space, power, economic and management challenges
that require rethinking existing cloud architectures to make
service creation and deployment feasible. Deploying the same amount
of hardware and software in every edge site that is deployed in
centralized data centers would prove costly from both a capex and
opex perspective.
Contrail Edge Cloud is the industry’s only production-grade
solution that extends a full suite of orchestration, automation,
security and analytics to the edge in order to deploy dynamic
consumer and enterprise services in a cost and resource efficient
manner. With this new solution that leverages the software-defined
networking capabilities of Contrail Networking and Contrail
Security with Kubernetes and OpenStack to provide advanced
networking, Juniper has taken another step toward enabling a secure
automated distributed cloud that provides operators a simple way to
create, manage and monetize new services in preparation for 5G. As
a champion of open source networking, Juniper has built Contrail
Edge Cloud based on Linux Foundation’s open Tungsten Fabric project
and continues to contribute to the Linux Foundation’s Akraino Edge
Stack project to further the open cloud initiatives.
News Highlights
- Footprint-optimized distributed computing:
Integration with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, with distributed
compute, leverages many of the latest OpenStack capabilities to
remotely manage the lifecycle of compute nodes and virtual machines
(VMs) from a centralized data center, without requiring the
footprint of co-located OpenStack control plane functions in each
of these remote edge sites. This is critical in space-, power- and
compute-constrained edge sites.
- Containers for faster time to revenue:
Kubernetes provides the orchestration for the containerized
applications. Containers running on a Kubernetes application
platform will help service providers to increase the density of
applications deployed on their platforms and be more immediately
responsive to service provisioning and activation. Contrail Edge
Cloud will be capable of supporting Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform and other Kubernetes distributions.
- Unified workflow, policy and service chaining:
Contrail Networking with remote compute capabilities enables
service providers to deliver a seamless network fabric between VMs,
containers and bare metal servers from a single-user interface
across physical and virtual environments. Contrail Networking
translates abstract workflows into specific networking policies,
simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity
across all environments. Fabric management capabilities automate
policies and life-cycle management of each data center and edge
site fabric. Contrail Networking provides connectivity and service
chaining for OpenStack VM, Kubernetes containers and bare metal
workloads without requiring the footprint of co-located control
plane functions.
- Native security and microsegmentation:
Contrail Security provides visibility, telemetry and network policy
enforcement in a single unified mechanism for service providers
that are increasingly deploying a mix of VMs and containers. It
includes adaptive firewall policies and tag-based ability to
enforce security policies across Kubernetes and OpenStack.
- Open source software-defined storage: Red Hat
Ceph Storage provides massively scalable storage that runs
economically on industry standard hardware and manages petabytes of
data across cloud and emerging workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage is
tightly integrated with OpenStack’s modular architecture and
components for ephemeral and persistent storage, offering a single
efficient platform to support block, object and file storage. Red
Hat Ceph Storage can also be used in hyperconverged deployments
with the OpenStack platform for greater operational efficiencies,
available as Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud.
- Machine learning-based analytics: AppFormix
provides machine learning-based performance and health monitoring
to give health and service insights into workloads and
deployments.
- Full-featured virtualized security: cSRX and
vSRX deliver an industry leading container and virtualized security
instance as part of the service chain.
Supporting Quotes
“Service providers’ edge networks are beachfront property. As 5G
and new applications such as IoT, AR/VR and connected cars all
require extreme proximity to the end user, the edge will become
ground zero to deploy virtualized network infrastructure, as well
as to monetize new applications. Contrail Edge Cloud will greatly
simplify the IT side of spinning up and managing these new services
in a secure way. And what’s great is it isn’t just for network
engineers. It also gives sales and marketing executives a way to
get creative with agile new services, so businesses and consumers
start seeing carriers as more than just connectivity providers. We
are executing all of this in an incredibly small edge-friendly
footprint.” – Sally Bament, Vice
President, Service Provider Marketing, Juniper Networks
“The way people use the network and what they’ve come to expect
is very different from just five years ago. Because of
this, service providers are looking to transform many parts of
their networks to satisfy evolving demand, and the
network edge is key. However, it’s not as simple as just flipping a
switch. In order to use the edge to deploy new low-latency services
at scale in a cost-effective way, service providers need a simple
way to fit all the orchestration, telemetry and security needed
into a part of the network that’s constrained on space and power.
Juniper Networks is giving telcos a huge leap forward in this area
with Contrail Edge Cloud.” – Dr. Ray
Mota, CEO and Principal Analyst, ACG Research
“With 5G connectivity targeting millions of sensors in addition
to millions of consumers, service providers will need solutions
that help manage networks. Red Hat is pleased to extend our
collaboration with Juniper to develop and scale the intelligent
edge, enabled by Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage
and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Our work with Juniper is
based on a commitment to open source technologies that helps to
provide our customers with more choice and innovation, as well as
validated solutions that can accelerate time-to-market during an
organization's digital transformation journey.”
– Chris Wright, CTO, Red Hat
Additional Resources
- Blog: Defining the Edge – An Essential Part of 5G
Transformation
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