Juniper Networks Brings Industry's First and Only AIOps to WAN Routing, Delivering AI-Native Insight for Exceptional Experiences
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) has unveiled new AI-native capabilities to its AI-Native Networking Platform, enhancing WAN Assurance, Premium Analytics, and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA). These updates promise improved SD-WAN and SASE experiences, operational cost reductions up to 85%, and enhanced network troubleshooting capabilities. New features include proactive AIOps, expanded Marvis Minis for SD-WAN, and a new Routing Assurance product. Security insights in the Premium Analytics dashboard offer real-time threat response. Juniper aims to provide a unified AI-Native solution for secure, efficient network management across all domains.
- New AI-native capabilities promise operational cost reductions up to 85%.
- Enhanced network troubleshooting with proactive AIOps and continuous WAN speed tests.
- New Routing Assurance product brings AI-native automation to edge routing.
- Expanded Marvis Minis and WAN dPCAP improve network issue diagnosis and resolution.
- Security insights dashboard in Premium Analytics provides real-time threat response and comprehensive visibility.
- Unified AI-Native Platform spans all key networking domains, reducing silos and enhancing collaboration.
- Potentially high initial costs for upgrading to new AI-native solutions.
- Complexity in integrating new AI-native features with existing network infrastructure.
- Increased reliance on AI may present risks if algorithms fail or are manipulated.
- Operational disruptions during the transition to new AI-native capabilities.
Insights
Juniper Networks' latest innovations represent a significant leap in AI-Native Networking, particularly with their AI-Native WAN routing solution. The integration of AI and cloud technologies into traditional edge routing topologies is an advancement that offers substantial benefits. This could mean reduced operational expenditures by up to
The introduction of Marvis with its conversational interface adds another layer of usability for IT teams, enabling them to swiftly diagnose and resolve issues using natural language. This is a game-changer for network operation centers, which often face the challenge of complex network troubleshooting. The expansion of dynamic packet capture (dPCAP) to WAN means quicker problem identification and resolution, reducing the need for costly site visits.
These developments not only enhance the operational efficiency of a network but also improve overall user experiences by proactively managing network performance and security. However, the true impact of these innovations will depend on their real-world application and adoption by enterprises.
The enhancements introduced by Juniper Networks are poised to deliver significant value to enterprises. The ability to seamlessly manage and secure SD-WAN environments is important in today's decentralized work structures. By covering wired, wireless and WAN with a single AI-Native platform, Juniper sets itself apart in the market, potentially driving higher adoption rates.
The new security insights Mist dashboard fosters better collaboration between networking and security teams, an essential factor in modern IT operations. This integration could lead to more efficient threat response and incident management, ultimately safeguarding organizational data and improving operational resilience.
On the financial side, if Juniper can demonstrate tangible cost savings and operational efficiencies to potential clients, it could see increased market share. The long-term benefits of these innovations lie in the sustained performance improvements and security enhancements they offer, which can translate into stable revenue growth.
Securing access to the edge with cloud-native Mist AI™ engine for all network domains
With these latest platform enhancements, Juniper is the only vendor with a single AI-Native Platform that reduces operational expenditures, by up to 85 percent in some instances, across the entire networking footprint.
The augmented Juniper solution leverages AI for Networking to drive even more value to enterprise WAN environments:
Assured SD-WAN experiences with proactive AIOps
Marvis Minis, Juniper’s digital experience twin solution that improves network ops by diagnosing real authentication issues without requiring users/devices, has been extended to SD-WAN. New WAN speed tests can be continuously run (without users having to be present) to verify link speeds and take proactive actions if problems are detected. With this latest Marvis Minis expansion, Juniper is the first vendor to span wired, wireless and WAN with a single AI-Native digital experience twin solution, enabling exceptional end-to-end user experiences.
In addition, existing WAN service level expectations (SLEs) for WAN edge health, link health and application health have been augmented with a new SLE that tracks WAN congestion. The new WAN Congestion SLE alerts operators when their network interfaces are being over-utilized, which causes poor user experiences. Juniper has also further expanded its unique streaming dynamic packet capture (dPCAP) solution for wireless and wired to now include WAN. With WAN dPCAP, the Juniper WAN Assurance solution proactively captures packets at the time of a bad incident to help identify and fix hard-to-find issues, avoiding expensive and time-consuming site visits.
Finally, new application insights offer network operators a user-friendly visualization of the traffic traversing the SD-WAN, enabling them to see bandwidth-intensive applications and enable accurate planning and problem remediation.
Integrated SSE/SD-WAN (SASE) insight via expanded premium analytics dashboard
Juniper is introducing a new security insights Mist dashboard within its Premium Analytics product to provide comprehensive security event visibility and persona-based policy activation and threat responses. This increased visibility provides actionable intelligence to security teams, enabling them to quickly identify incidents and respond to threats in real-time—thereby improving the user experience.
The security insights dashboard in Premium Analytics also helps break down siloed network and security management. Networking and security teams benefit from a shared portal that shows proactive actions needed (and taken), which streamlines operational workflows for increased efficiency, agility and cost savings.
First AI-Native WAN routing solution
Another innovation announced by Juniper, Routing Assurance, brings the company’s high performance, sustainable and versatile enterprise edge routing platforms under the Mist AI and cloud umbrella. With Juniper Mist Routing Assurance, Juniper is modernizing the WAN edge with customizable service levels that allow administrators to monitor, analyze and resolve issues and anomalies identified by Mist AI swiftly across connected WAN Edge and peering locations for edge MX and ACX routing products, including MX204, MX304 and ACX7024 models.
In addition, Marvis, the industry’s first and only AI-Native VNA with a conversational interface built on more than seven years of learning, has been expanded to cover enterprise WAN edge routing. With Marvis’ conversational interface, IT teams can use simple language queries to identify and fix routing issues, including knowledge base queries powered by Generative AI.
With these latest expansions to its platform, Juniper is the only vendor to provide a single AI-Native and cloud-native solution that spans all key networking domains—from campus and branch to data center and all WAN links in between (regardless of topology).
Supporting Quotes:
"At Musgrave, we are excited about the upcoming enhancements to Juniper Networks' Mist AI WAN Assurance product. We initially chose Mist to support our commitment to delivering world-class solutions for our independent retailers, and since deployment, we've been amazed by the rapid delivery of upgrades with zero downtime. These new advancements will further enable us to proactively troubleshoot networks, simplify operations, deliver exceptional retailer and customer experiences, and gain deeper client-level visibility, reinforcing our dedication to top-tier network performance and reliability across our retail estate."
- Kevin McCartan, Senior IT Service Delivery Engineer, Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland
“Enterprises are increasingly seeking solutions to secure, manage and optimize user experiences at the WAN edge and within SD-WAN services. Juniper’s latest AI-Native Networking Platform capabilities provide a simple, secure way to achieve these objectives. This innovation represents a crucial addition to the networking landscape, offering a unified solution for AIOps across various domains.”
- Ray Mota, CEO & Principal Analyst, ACG Research
“Since the launch of our AI-Native Networking Platform in January, Juniper has delivered on the promise to build out our industry-leading AIOps across all enterprise network domains. Now embracing routing, these latest innovations enable simplified, fast assurance, monitoring, troubleshooting and issue resolution across multiple branch office, WAN Edge and peering locations. We are also uniquely combining the security and networking domains operationally, enabling insight-driven, holistic security management and audit within the broader networking context, replacing silos with collaboration. All these new innovations further enable exceptional, secure user experiences for the enterprise.”
- Sunalini Sankhavaram, Vice President, Product Development, Juniper Networks
Supporting Blogs
AI for WAN: Simple, Seamless, and Secure Branch Connectivity—Now Via a Common Platform - Jeff Aaron
AI and Edge Routing: The Perfect Marriage - Sunil Sadani
Introducing New Security Insights Within Juniper Mist Premium Analytics: A Bridge for Network and Security Teams’ Visibility Challenges - Mike Spanbauer
What is “AI Washing”? …and Why You Should Care – Bob Friday
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks believes that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver exceptional, highly secure and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (http://www.juniper.net/) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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