Japan’s Net One Systems chose Juniper Networks’ Contrail Enterprise Multicloud as its common services management platform for its customers.

The Japanese network integrator offers operational services including monitoring and security diagnosis of ICT infrastructure, and since 2016 it has integrated its services through an automated common service platform. This allows Net One Systems to deliver services faster at a lower cost. However, its ability to configure multi-tenant environments was limited because Net One Systems manages both OpenStack and VMware environments for its customers.

The network integrator had been working to deploy a new services management platform since 2018 that would allow it to configure tenants across the two environments without requiring a different design for its external connections. This is a big part of why it chose to deploy Juniper’s Contrail multicloud networking platform across its data centers.

Juniper rolled out Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, its SDN management and orchestration platform, two years ago as a more open alternative to a “closed system vendor” such as VMware’s NSX offering. The standards-based fabric management platform controls both the underlying devices of the data center infrastructure as well as the policy control overlay using open protocols such as BGP EVPN/VXLAN.

Net One Systems deployed Contrail Enterprise Multicloud for OpenStack, providing disaggregation with an overlay model alongside centralized information management through a controller. It also enables integrations with Open Stack because it supports external connections through these open standards and unified policies.

While it supports Open Stack now, it plans to extend Contrail Enterprise Multicloud to other platforms in the future including VMware and public clouds.

“Our company places emphasis on adopting open standards in the systems that we offer our customers,” said Kunitoshi Hirukawa, GM at Net One Systems, in a statement. “Contrail Enterprise Multicloud is based on open standards and we appreciate that our requirements have been realized by combining various devices.”