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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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    Contrail Networking
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    Overview
    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.

    We build optimized network operating system software for white box switches. Our software is designed with rich Layer-2, Layer-3, OpenFlow, and SDN features, making it ideal for tailoring to your network environments.

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    Lithium Technologies, Orange Business Services, Cloudwatt, Symantec, Cloud Dynamics, CloudSeeds
    Factual Inc., University of Illinois
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company28%
    Educational Organization8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    March 2024
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    Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while Pica8 is ranked 11th in Software Defined Networking (SDN). Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0, while Pica8 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pica8 writes "Its flexibility allows us to demonstrate both standalone and SDN connected networks using the same devices". Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, VMware NSX, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Cisco ACI, whereas Pica8 is most compared with Cumulus Networks and Big Switch Networks.

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