Two tech giants, Nokia and Juniper Networks have joined hands. As per the latest report, the companies have jointly made an announcement that regarding the expansion of their long-standing partnership to advance telco cloud for mobile broadband.
The latest collaboration brings together Nokia's leading Liquid Core solution, including network function virtualization (NFV) and telco cloud management and orchestration, and the Juniper Networks MetaFabric data center architecture, including Contrail - Juniper's network virtualization and cloud network automation solution based on software-defined networking (SDN).
"Nokia is a pioneer in telco cloud mobile networking solutions, establishing an unmatched track record in telco cloud innovation. By collaborating with Juniper, we are taking the next step together, enabling operators to take full advantage of the cloud with a clear path towards the robustness and scale of interconnected data centers," said Rajeev Suri, President & CEO, Nokia.
As mobile operators face pressure to bring new services to market at rapid rates, extending proven cloud network virtualization and automation capabilities to their carrier-grade networking domain will ensure true competitive advantage. Nokia and Juniper's bundled solution, delivered through carrier-grade services, will provide operators with an open ecosystem telco cloud solution, based on OpenStack, offering automated application deployment, software defined application connectivity and network management. The solution will also enable application and networking elastic scalability with a clear migration path for operators to leverage their existing assets built according to today's core architectures.
