Compare Cisco SD-WAN vs. Juniper Contrail Networking
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in SD-WAN with 12 reviews while Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN). Cisco SD-WAN is rated 7.8, while Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 0. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "Segmentation is great but router and voice gateway are not currently available". On the other hand, Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with VeloCloud, Meraki SD-WAN, Versa FlexVNF, VMware NSX and Citrix SD-WAN, whereas Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with VMware NSX, Tungsten Fabric, VeloCloud, Nuage Networks and Versa FlexVNF.
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80 percent reduction in WAN costs. There are no MPLS or P2P circuits left in the organization. We pay for the Cisco Customer Care support, which is a couple of hundred dollars. | Information Not Available |
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Views 18,590 Comparisons 16,042 Reviews 12 Average Words per Review 556 Avg. Rating 7.8 | Views 4,451 Comparisons 3,756 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Avg. Rating N/A |
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Also Known As | |
| Viptela, Cisco vEdge Cloud Router | Contrail Networking |
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Overview | |
Deploy software-defined WAN without compromising the application experience. | Juniper Contrail Networking is a simple, open, and agile cloud network automation product that implements an SDN architecture. With its scale-out microservices architecture, Contrail orchestrate virtual network overlays at the performance and scale of even the most dynamic and large clouds. Contrail Networking is equipped with always-on advanced analytics capabilities to provide deep insights into application and infrastructure performance for better visualization, easier diagnostics, rich reporting, custom application development, and machine automation. It also supports integration with other analytics platforms like Juniper Networks AppFormix and streaming analytics through technologies like Apache Kafka and its API. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Doyle Research, Ashton Metzler & Associates | Lithium Technologies, Orange Business Services, Cloudwatt, Symantec, Cloud Dynamics, CloudSeeds |
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Comms Service Provider34% Computer Software Company29% Construction Company5% Government4% | Comms Service Provider44% Computer Software Company24% Media Company7% Government4% |
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