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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

    Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. Our networking switching software, Cumulus Linux, is the only solution that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world’s largest data center operators — unlocking vertical network stacks.

    With Cumulus Linux, our customers can run their data center networks the way Google and Facebook have done for years, highly automated, without all the development time or expensive, specialized hardware.

    The network is a critical part of the data center that has traditionally been a bottleneck for rapid deployment of applications. We believe in completely transforming the industry by enabling a web-scale IT architectural approach that brings efficiency and flexibility to the network.

    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
    Perth Radiological Clinic, Medallia, Faithlife, Ooyala, NephoScale, DreamHost, SFMIX
    Lithium Technologies, Orange Business Services, Cloudwatt, Symantec, Cloud Dynamics, CloudSeeds
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    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Educational Organization8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Cumulus Networks is ranked 9th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) while Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews. Cumulus Networks 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". Cumulus Networks is most compared with Pica8, Big Switch Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI, 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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