Juniper, Mirantis Expand Partnership With SDN Solution To Build OpenStack Clouds

(RTTNews) - Juniper Networks (JNPR) and Mirantis, a pure-play OpenStack company, announced an expanded engineering partnership that provides customers with a reliable, open-source software-defined networking or SDN fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale.

Mirantis OpenStack is an OpenStack distribution that is easy to install and operate at scale. It 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.

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