Vodafone Picks Juniper’s SD-WAN for Its Enterprise Services

Juniper Networks scored a big SD-WAN victory. The company announced that Vodafone selected its Contrail SD-WAN to be included in the operator’s portfolio of enterprise cloud-based services that it calls its Ready Network. Vodafone’s Ready Network will use Juniper’s universal customer premises equipment (uCPE), its self-service portal, its Contrail Service Orchestrator, and its NFX Series Network Services PlatformJuniper’s uCPE is important because it can deliver multiple virtual network functions (VNFs). This means that Vodofone customers can use the same device to deploy additional VNFs without needing to install additional physical appliances or dispatch humans on-site to provision services.