A conversation with Steve Shaw, Product Marketing Director, Juniper Networks
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Juniper Networks is a traditional networking vendor that is embracing NFV. Juniper has a three-layer product strategy to enable the transition to NFV in mobile networks. It includes MetaFabric, its data center architecture at the infrastructure layer; the Contrail Cloud SDN/NFV platform at the control layer; and specific functions such as Firefly Perimeter at the VNF layer. Juniper looks to partner with OSS/BSS companies and third-party VNF suppliers to deliver complete solutions to market.
I talked to Steve Shaw Product Marketing Director at Juniper about the benefits of NFV. “The ability to do intelligent traffic steering with service chains, across all of these virtualized network environments, is critical for helping service providers differentiate and actually deliver value-add to their customers,” said Steve.
At the same time, it is crucial to have a robust ecosystem to enable mobile operators to leverage the NFV infrastructure. “The power of NFV – and the power of virtualization – is the ability to quickly bring on third-party applications and third-party virtual services, and orchestrate them in and automate them in. This helps the service provider to run through new capabilities and new features, and grow existing capabilities, more quickly,” Steve added.
This conversation is included in the Senza Fili report “The emergence of the NFV ecosystem: Laying the foundation for a new way to run mobile networks”. If you would like to download a complimentary copy of the report, please click here.
