In the era of cloud, networks are more critical than ever. Organizations turn to the cloud to enhance business agility and foster innovation. To achieve this, they need the right solutions to control their cloud networks effectively.
Juniper Networks Contrail offers a simple, open, and agile software-defined networking (SDN) solution that automates and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks. Contrail enables rapid, large-scale connectivity of clouds and virtualized resources without altering the underlying physical network.
The wait for SDN is over. Now is the time to connect your cloud infrastructure and pioneer new revenue-generating applications and services with Juniper Networks Contrail.
Contrail: Networking for the Virtual World
Contrail excels in being simple, open, and agile:
- Simple: Leverages existing networking protocols, facilitating easy integration of virtual and physical networks.
- Open: Eliminates vendor lock-in by interoperating seamlessly with various hypervisors and open orchestration systems.
- Agile: Allows rapid creation of virtual networks across public, private, and hybrid clouds, offering deep analytics for unparalleled visibility and insights.
Service providers can use Contrail to deliver innovative new services, including cloud-based offerings and virtualized managed services. For enterprises, Contrail enhances business agility by enabling the migration of applications and IT resources to more flexible private or hybrid cloud environments.
Key Features
Switching and Routing
- Hypervisor forwarding plane: Provides line-rate routing and switching in a multi-tenant virtualized environment, decoupled from the underlying physical fabric switches.
Load Balancing
- Integrated into the hypervisor forwarding plane for balancing traffic across application tiers or network services.
Security
- Policy Enforcement and Security Groups: Integrated directly into the hypervisor forwarding plane.
- Application-aware Firewall Services: Delivered in software using Virtual SRX.
- Distributed Threat Prevention: Implemented in software via Junos WebApp Secure.
Elastic, Resilient VPN
- Delivers L3VPN, E-VPN, Site-to-Site IPSec, and SSL VPN in software, ensuring robust and adaptable VPN services.
Gateway Services
- Interfaces with Juniper MX Series 3D Routers or QFX3600 Switches for seamless connections to legacy workloads and non-virtualized physical services.
- Interoperates with most routing equipment supporting L3VPN or E-VPN with the appropriate data-encapsulation standards.
High Availability
- Configured in Active-Active cluster mode. Each vRouter is connected to a set of control planes, receiving identical routing tables and ACLs.
Analytics Services
- Provides rich visualization and diagnostics for virtualized and physical networks, offering real-time and historical infrastructure analytics consumable via REST APIs.
API Services
- REST API for configuration, operation, and analytics, ensuring seamless integration with cloud orchestration systems such as CloudStack and OpenStack, or service provider OSS/BSS systems.
- VPC API compatibility facilitates the seamless deployment of applications in hybrid environments, including private cloud and public/AWS.
With Juniper Networks Contrail, businesses can achieve a higher degree of agility, scalability, and innovation in their cloud networking environments.