Nokia and Juniper Networks collaborate to advance telco cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: Nokia and Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announce an 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).

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.

"In the same way that cloud computing transformed the IT industry, telco cloud dynamics are radically changing how mobile operators plan to deploy, operate and manage their networks through virtualization and software defined networking," said Peter Jarich, vice president, Current Analysis. "Nokia and Juniper's expanded partnership fits well into this evolution, strengthening the telco cloud ecosystem in the process."