Juniper Networks and Mirantis Partner over SDN
Juniper Networks and Mirantis have announced an expanded engineering partnership that provides customers with a reliable, open-source software-defined networking (SDN) fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale. Mirantis OpenStack, an OpenStack distribution that is easy to install and operate at scale, will now support and interoperate with Juniper Contrail Networking, a standards-based SDN solution for enterprise and service provider customers. Mirantis OpenStack also supports and interoperates with OpenContrail, an open-source SDN solution. “Mirantis is the go-to vendor for building an OpenStack cloud. Integration of Mirantis OpenStack with Juniper Contrail Networking gives the enterprise-grade support that customers expect for large-scale open-source cloud deployments,” said Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Software, Juniper Networks. “By providing developers, partners and customers a proven, open-source reference architecture, together Mirant...