# Contrail Reviews
**Vendor:** Juniper Networks  
**Category:** [SD-WAN Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/sd-wan)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Contrail
Contrail offers intelligent automation, application security, and always-on reliability for cloud and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).




## Contrail Reviews
  ### 1. Contrail review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021

**What do you like best about Contrail?**

I like that Contrail is feature-rich and enables the integration of various public cloud orchestration technologies into one product with professional support. 
It offers support for OpenStack which in my case was an essential feature.

**What do you dislike about Contrail?**

I wish that a free community version could be made available by Juniper Networks. Tungsten Fabric is the open-source equivalent, but we would like to have something to test on in a lab environment before moving to production with the paid version of Contrail.

**What problems is Contrail solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The most important benefit from using Contrail is the possibility to manage networking and security configurations in an  IT infrastructure with a combination of hypervisors and containers. Contrail also supports multi-cloud and multi-stack and thus provides versatility in unifying management of different systems under a single pane of glass.


## Contrail Discussions
  - [What is Contrail used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-contrail-used-for)

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## Contrail Features
**Performance**
- Scalability
- Portability
- Data Recovery

**Functionality**
- OS Integration
- Resource Saving
- Performance Management
- Security

**Agentic AI - Server Virtualization**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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