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  • "Juniper Contrail Networking is low-cost for small and medium-sized businesses. Cisco and Palo Alto solutions are more expensive."
  • "There are many vendors in the wireless market that offer better pricing, solutions, and management skills compared to Juniper."
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    Top Answer:It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution.
    Top Answer:Based on my experience in the Indian market, there are four to five areas that need improvement. First, there is a lack of marketing and awareness about Juniper, making it difficult to reach end-users… more »
    Top Answer:We're using all three topologies– wireless, wiring, and edge, which are connected using Juniper products. Specifically, for wireless, we use the Juniper product P32 and P33, while for switches, we use… more »
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    Contrail Networking
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    Overview
    IBM Networking Services for SDN help you design, deploy and manage virtualized, software defined networks for better agility, security and cost efficiency. IBM Networking Services for Software-defined Networks (SDN) help you transform your hardware and device-centric network to a virtual, software-defined network for improved agility, security and cost efficiency. It offers an unbiased approach to network transformation across multiple SDN technologies with network design, deployment and management services to build networks that support your application requirements and business needs. Key features include the following: Assess your network and develop a SDN strategy, Monitor and manage your network proactively, Deploy virtualized software-defined networks and Build, integrate and test SDN solutions.
    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.
    Sample Customers
    Sin Chew Media, Naza Kia Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
    Lithium Technologies, Orange Business Services, Cloudwatt, Symantec, Cloud Dynamics, CloudSeeds
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    Educational Organization17%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    IBM SDN is ranked 14th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) while Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews. IBM SDN is rated 0.0, while Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". IBM SDN is most compared with VMware NSX, DriveNets Network Cloud, Meraki SD-WAN and Aviatrix, whereas Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, VMware NSX, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Cisco ACI.

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