Juniper-Mirantis to offer open-source SDN fabric

NEW DELHI: Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, and Juniper Networks have announced an expanded engineering partnership that provides customers with an open-source software-defined networking (SDN) fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale.

Mirantis OpenStack 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, a release said.

Juniper and Mirantis have published a reference architecture for deploying and managing Juniper Contrail Networking with Mirantis OpenStack so that customers can scale OpenStack clouds without relying on complex and vendor-proprietary networking and management software.

The reference architecture is validated for Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 (based on OpenStack Juno), with Juniper Contrail Networking. Mirantis and Juniper plan to release a Fuel plugin in 2Q 2015 to further automate and simplify deploying and managing large-scale OpenStack clouds.

“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 and General Manager, Cloud Software at Juniper Networks.

“By providing developers, partners and customers a proven, open-source reference architecture, together Mirantis and Juniper will help accelerate adoption, foster new innovation and help customers realize the benefits of SDN more quickly,” Singla added.