It is obvious from the noises being made by its senior executives that Juniper wants to be known as a disruptor - a shining example of a forward looking company ready and willing to embrace the realities of an SDN/NFV market that values virtualised software more than networking hardware.
For the moment software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) technology appear to be occupying that most precarious position on the infamous hype curve – where fervent expectations have peaked and the slow downward descent into reality has kicked in.
Network and telecommunications equipment vendors are not exactly renowned for playing nicely together, having historically exhibited a special type of narcissism which has caused no end of problems for the network and operations managers left to find ways of forcing different products to communicate efficiently.
Watch our SDN Demo
This demonstration displays Imtech ICT's POC lab, with our SDN /NFV Consultant Alex Walker, showing Juniper Networks Contrail SDN controller working with OpenStack. We'll demonstrate the creation of some new web hosting services for an existing customer all within the Contrail and OpenStack environment. We then show the connection of these Virtual Networks through to their physical networks using Juniper Network's MX router- their Universal SDN Gateway.
