AT&T Collaborates With Juniper Networks To Bring Contrail Controller To SDN Project
The American telecom giant, AT&T, would utilize Juniper's Contrail Controller to improve its infrastructure.
The American telecommunications enterprise, AT&T, has taken an initiative to progress in the market. Juniper Networks is the newest network supplier chosen by the organization to add to its efforts to speed up the utilization of network virtualization in its infrastructure.
Executives at Juniper proclaimed on October 5, that telecom giant would employ its Contrail software-defined networking controller as a component of the AT&T Integrated Cloud environment.
AT&T News exclaimed that according to Juniper enterprise, the telecom giant would employ Contrail to play its role to virtualize and automate the network, permitting it to scale as required to provide facilities rapidly to its clients. Executives stated that Juniper’s open approach to Contrail would allow the firm to include new capacities more rapidly into its network, decrease development time, and cut down costs.
AT&T News today reported that in 2013, Juniper introduced the Contrail SDN controller, built based on the tools attained when it purchased Contrail systems 12 months ago for $176,000,000. The network developer simultaneously launched an open source initiative, Open Contrail, which was pioneered over the Apache 2.0 license to offer a ‘third party’ access to the technology. This would affirm it continues to remain vendor-agnostic and benefit the open-source development procedure so that it could rapidly add capabilities and perform a number of other tasks, such as expansion and alteration of the cloud environments and data center’s demands.
AT&T Breaking News affirmed that such capacities would be significant to the telecom giant as it pursues its Network on Demand venture – also called Domain 2.0 – to transfer its network structure to network-functions virtualization and SDN. The 6-year plan is calling for AT&T to shift from the costly and complicated networking tool that it has depended on and instead accepts a more software centered structure.
AT&T’s management has stated that it is hoping to govern and virtualize more than three fourth of its network by utilizing the new structure by 2020, a goal referred to as "an ambitious target".
An official of Juniper, Ankur Singla, stated, "Juniper and AT&T share a common vision for a customizable cloud network experience that is highly scalable, secure, automated, and can readily adapt to customer needs."
Juniper has announced seven days after AT&T’s executives stated that they were also cooperating with Brocade and Cisco systems around characteristics of their software-defined attempts. The collaboration between organizations is directed towards providing superior services and offers. “Managed Internet Service on Demand” will be offered later this fall in selected American cities.
