NETWORK IN A BOX - Automation of secure SD-WAN with Service chaining in Juniper NFX
V. S. S. P. L. N. Balaji Lanka, Hemachandran K Mohan · 2019
With the increase in foot print for networking services using cloud based technologies, network service providers/manufacturers have to effectively test the cloud services with limited resources and time in cost effective manner. The Network-in-a-box offers to quickly deploy the cloud networking services and validate the solutions needed by the field. The Juniper NFX devices offer deployment of Secure SDWAN with service chaining using Juniper and other 3rdparty VNFs integrated in a single box. This provides an excellent platform to test, validate and automate the customer deployment use cases. The VNFs that can be supported by NFX includes vSRX(SDSN) and various 3rdparty VNFs. Using the REST APIs end-to-end interactions can be automated which enables the vendors to quickly validate and regress the changes. The demonstration includes creating 5 VNFs in Juniper NFX - 1xtraffic generator, 1xL2/L3 service chain, 2xVSRX and 1xCentOS(to simulate network impediments).