California Telecom SD-WAN Platform vs. Juniper Contrail Networking

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
California Telecom SD-WAN Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a technology that offers benefits to organizations seeking to optimize their network infrastructure. California Telecom blends the benefits of SD-WAN with support and a team of Tier-3 Network engineers to provide a helping hand to come alongside organizations' boots-on-the-ground teams. Some benefits that have been identified are: Improved Network Performance: Dynamic…
$170
per month per installation
Contrail Networking
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Juniper Networks supports SDN with Contrail Networking, a solution that provides dynamic end-to-end networking policy and control for any cloud, any workload, NFV, and any deployment, from a single user interface. It translates abstract workflows into specific policies, simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity across all environments.N/A
Pricing
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformJuniper Contrail Networking
Editions & Modules
250 Mbps - Standard
$170
per month per installation
300 Mbps - Standard
$185
per month per installation
600 Mbps - Standard
$210
per month per installation
1 GB - Standard
$300
per month per installation
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformContrail Networking
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformJuniper Contrail Networking
Best Alternatives
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformJuniper Contrail Networking
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.0 out of 10
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.0 out of 10
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformJuniper Contrail Networking
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformJuniper Contrail Networking
Likelihood to Recommend
California Telecom
CalTel SD-WAN platform is well suited for organization that are looking for scalability but in a cost-effective way. CalTel SD-WAN platform is also suited for organization who do not want to use their internal resource managing this system
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Juniper Networks
Best for: - Data Center Networking - NFVI Cloud Networking - Virtual Private Cloud for CSP
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Pros
California Telecom
  • Inovative infratructure for scalability and realiability.
  • More cost-effective from service to support
  • Proactive monitoring
  • Knowledgeable engineers
  • Seemless implementation
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Juniper Networks
  • Contrail Networking automates network resource.
  • Providing reliability and agility while extending visibility into your multi-cloud network.
  • Advanced analytics capabilities.
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Cons
California Telecom
  • Jim G. works well with executive staff in discovering ways to meet requirement, implement a more scalable technology, while still being cost-effective. Jim will need to replicate himself in order to be able to have others to do this type of work instead.
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Juniper Networks
  • Contrail should have inbuild management of underlay network as well
  • lack of open resources to learn
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Alternatives Considered
California Telecom
Cal-Tel is more cost effective, reliable, and have a more proactive management.
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Juniper Networks
The platforms are very similar in networking concepts, at the interface level I found it easier to use Juniper Contrail than Cisco ACI. And at the cost level, I think it is cheaper.
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Return on Investment
California Telecom
  • Moving from Windstream system to CalTel cut gave us a monthly savings of $371K /yr for our phone and internet expenses.
  • It also allowed us to be more proactive when a circuit has trouble and allowed us to have redundancy.
  • Also allowed us to easily migrate our servers to a Data-Center and manage the traffic.
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Juniper Networks
  • Core of our NFV Cloud providing Multitenant Services
  • Give Agility to our Cloud
  • Wrokload any IP, anywhere
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