Telecom Lead Asia: China Mobile and AT&T are testing Juniper Networks’ JunosV Contrail for software-defined networks (SDN).
China Mobile, the largest telecom operator in the world, says it expects to lead the mobile market with production deployment of a multi-vendor SDN solution.
Lu Huang, technical manager, China Mobile Research Institute, said: “After reviewing SDN solutions from different vendors, China Mobile Research believes that Juniper Networks’ JunosV Contrail provides a competitive architecture for a highly scalable and interoperable infrastructure.
The SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments is forecast to grow from $360 million in 2013 to $3.7 billion by 2016, according to IDC. This forecast for the SDN ecosystem includes the associated network infrastructure, SDN applications and control plane solutions, and SDN-related professional services.
AT&T says Juniper Network’s SDN solutions have capabilities that could help drive the evolution to Virtualization and Software Defined Networking for global operators.
“From our early access to Juniper’s JunosV Contrail solution we’ve seen that it has important capabilities that could help drive the evolution to Virtualization and Software Defined Networking,” said John Medamana, VP, AT&T Network Platforms.
Juniper Network’s SDN solutions are expected reduce the time, cost and risk for customers – both enterprises and telecom operators — to deliver new network and security services.
Juniper also said the new SDN solution will be available ahead its planned release.
JunosV Contrail will deliver a virtual network solution as it virtualizes the network to enable seamless automation and orchestration among private and public cloud environments, elastic management of IP-based network and security services.
“The response from our trial customers has been overwhelmingly positive and from a roadmap perspective, we are delivering on our SDN strategy ahead of schedule,” said Bob Muglia, executive vice president, Software Solutions Division, Juniper Networks.
