Using Red Hat OpenStack with Juniper Networks Contrail Networking, you will future-proof yourself for the cloud era with the leading open SDN solution for cloud and NFV that improves business agility with predictable security, high availability, high performance, automation and elasticity.

Contrail Networking is a simple, smart, agile and open software-defined cloud networking and service orchestration solution. It is obsessively designed as scale-out cloud-native software, and designed to orchestrate virtualized networking in the cloud building era’s most demanding elastic hybrid and public clouds, as well as service provider’s virtual network functions.

Based on proven open networking standards, open APIs, and developed directly in the OpenContrail open source project, Contrail Networking, works with leading cloud orchestration systems like OpenStack. Delivering predictable business agility and a low cost of ownership, the Contrail cloud networking platform will enhance and future-proof your investment in creating IT as-a-service with devOps automation and bringing your applications to the cloud.

• Simple: Easily manage and orchestrate overlay virtual networks and virtual service chaining policies that work on any IP network and federate seamlessly with existing vendor-agnostic physical network elements for interoperable high-speed gateways to and from the cloud infrastructure.
• Smart: The smart scale-out architecture delivers always-on cloud networking that can scale to the meet the toughest of cloud challenges, and raise the bar for network intelligence with monitoring and troubleshooting insight based on smart analytics.
• Agile: Software-defined networking agility at the speed of cloud boosts IT and business agility. Now you can roll out that new service offering with the networking needs met instantly, and capitalize on that new business opportunity with resources on-demand.
• Open: Now that cloud is the new computer, you need to future-proof your investment in your cloud orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and selection of public or other clouds with which to federate. This industry-leading open cloud SDN technology is powering some of the biggest clouds on diverse virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal servers. At last, there is a clear choice in cloud networking for a smooth roll out today and for operation in the years to come because Contrail’s virtual networking uses the same decade-long network technologies that scale and interoperate across the Internet and are open, proven and optimized in the physical network elements that you already have in place.

See Juniper's Solution Brief to learn more about the combination of Contrail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Additional information can be found on the Contrail Networking product page from Juniper Networks or visit the OpenContrail community home page.