SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today released details about its upcoming participation at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, a bi-annual conference for developers, users and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software. Juniper will have its Juniper Networks® Contrail and cloud networking experts available to discuss the latest requirements and innovations in automation and service orchestration to build and manage open cloud networks.

Additionally, Juniper will participate in multiple conference sessions related to dynamic service chaining, network functions virtualization (NFV), firewall as a service (FWaaS), software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) as well as orchestration services using OpenStack. Juniper representatives will be available at Booth T67 in Marketplace Expo Hall to discuss the company’s Contrail, SDN and NFV portfolio of solutions. Juniper will also host an OpenContrail User Group (OCUG) meeting for developers and users to discuss and exchange ideas related to the latest OpenContrail projects.

Juniper customers such as Lithium, NTT i3, Orange Labs and Workday will also be sharing their Contrail user experiences in their respective conference sessions. Read more about how Contrail Customers Speak Out at the OpenStack Summit.

Presentation Sessions

Date: Tuesday, October 27 Title: ** Containers are hot, but how do they network? Time: 5:30 – 6:10 p.m. Venue: Room Kyokko Juniper Speaker: Scott Sneddon, senior director - SDN & Virtualization

Date: Thursday, October 29 Title: ** Enhancing OpenStack FWaaS to Address Real World Business Needs Time: 9:50 – 10:30 a.m. Venue: Room Kougyoku Juniper Speakers: Chandan Dutta Chowdhury, technical lead; Sarath Chandra Mekala, technical lead; Sriram Subramaniam, director – software engineering

Title: Extending OpenStack Heat to Orchestrate Security Policies and Network Function Service Chains Time: 9:50 – 10:30 a.m. Venue: Expo Hall, Marketplace Theater Juniper Speaker: Aniket Daptari, senior product manager, Cloud Network Automation

Title: NFV Bakeoff Time: 2:40 – 3:20 p.m. Venue: Room Hakugyoku Juniper Speaker: Shishir Agrawal, product manager

Title: Gohan: An Open-source Service Development Engine for SDN/NFV Orchestration Time: 4:30 – 5:10 p.m. Venue: Room Hakugyoku Juniper Speaker: Nachi Ueno, distinguished engineer

Title: Software-Defined WAN implementation to optimize Enterprise Branch Networking Time: 5:20 – 6 p.m. Venue: Room Hakugyoku Juniper Speaker: Pratik Rowchowdhury, director, product management

Title: ** Apply, Rinse, Repeat. (re)Build OpenStack Ready Infrastructure like a pro [Crowbar + Contrail] Time: 5:20 – 6 p.m. Venue: Room Wakaba Juniper Speaker: Parantap Lahiri, senior director, engineering

OpenContrail User Group Meeting

There will be an OCUG meeting scheduled on Thursday, October 29 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Landmark Square. Contrail users including Allegro, Lithium, NTT i3, Orange Labs, tcpCloud and Workday will be present to share their deployment experiences. Register for the event at http://opencontrailusergrouptokyo.eventbrite.com

Juniper Networks Technology Demonstrations

Juniper will showcase several technology demonstrations at Booth T67, Marketplace Expo Hall:

• Enterprise Cloud Service

• Bare Metal as a Service

• Enterprise - Legacy to Cloud Migration

• vCenter as a Compute: Use Case

• VMware to OpenStack Migration: Use Case

• Enterprise Branch Roll Out

• Contrail LBaaS Support

• With F5 Load-Balancers

• Contrail Analytics: Streaming Interface