Juniper Networks Demonstrates Industry Leadership with Two MEF Proof of Concept Showcase Awards
On March 10, 2021, Juniper Networks (JNPR) announced its Paragon Automation solutions received two prestigious awards at the Q1 2021 MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept (PoC) Showcase. The Market Game Changer Award was awarded for its Orchestrated Multi-edge Clouds solution, while the Judge's Choice Award recognized its Revolutionizing Live Events PoC. These honors emphasize the demand for modern automation solutions in enhancing service quality for providers. Juniper's latest innovations aim to streamline operations and support service providers in delivering superior experiences amidst growing network complexities.
- Juniper's Paragon Automation received the Market Game Changer Award for its significant impact on service providers.
- The Revolutionizing Live Events PoC won the Judge's Choice Award, showcasing Juniper's innovation in network slicing and AI-driven content delivery.
- Juniper continues to innovate in automation, enhancing service experience while improving operational efficiency.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced its Juniper Paragon Automation™ solutions received top honors in the Q1 2021 MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept (PoC) Showcase. Juniper Paragon Active Assurance was recognized in two categories for its unique ability to help service providers deliver a superior quality of service experience, underscoring the market demand for modern automation solutions that embed active assurance to proactively identify and solve network problems before customers are impacted.
Juniper's Orchestrated Multi-edge Clouds (PoC 131) solution received the Market Game Changer Award, which recognizes use cases with the largest potential impact on the service provider market. The solution demonstrates how communications service providers can accelerate adoption of enterprise multi-edge cloud services through the orchestration of IoT applications and connectivity on open edge compute platforms. In this PoC, in addition to Paragon Active Assurance, Juniper provided the SD-WAN, LAN (Access Points and EX switches) and Juniper Mist Cloud, boosting scale and agility through an API-centric, modern microservices cloud architecture while offering ground-breaking services, such as Juniper Mist Assurance (Wi-Fi, Wired and WAN) and Marvis, the virtual network assistant for proactive AIOps.
Juniper's Revolutionizing Live Events (PoC 132) was also granted the Judge's Choice Award, which recognizes the best presented PoC, both in the showcase itself and through digital presence. The solution demonstrates a differentiated viewing experience for live events, enabled over an optimized network slice, to deliver customized and immersive video content. It leverages the latest in video technology, edge compute-based AI and machine learnings, MEF-based network slicing and network-based quality of experience (Juniper Paragon Active Assurance) to both autonomously generate content and deliver personalized and unique video views over the enterprise network. Juniper, along with ADVA and Equinix, partnered with Spectrum Enterprises, who led the winning PoC.
Juniper Innovation Momentum Continues
Released last month, Juniper Paragon Automation™ is a portfolio of cloud-native software applications that deliver closed-loop automation in the most demanding environments. Paragon solutions translate business intent into real-world performance across the lifecycle of a network and services, eliminating manual tasks and processes while empowering operations teams to work more quickly, efficiently and accurately across the network.
Juniper Paragon Automation™ builds on Juniper's existing capabilities in bringing assured service experience to service providers. Last year, Juniper acquired Netrounds, a programmable, software-based active test and monitoring platform suitable for fixed and mobile networks. Netrounds enhances Juniper's automated WAN by automating the validation of end to end service quality expectations throughout the service life cycle.
Supporting Quotes:
"This recognition is an important step toward realizing the promise of Experience-First Networking. With our Paragon Automation portfolio, Juniper Networks is on the front lines of helping service providers differentiate by delivering a superior service experience to their customers while also improving operations speed, accuracy and efficiency – now more important than ever with the increase in traffic, end-points and emerging services."
- Sally Bament, Vice President of Cloud and Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks
"The concepts presented in our PoC showcase present an exciting glimpse into the power of MEF-defined services, and business and operational automation. They give the industry an opportunity to visualize real-world MEF 3.0 Framework use cases that service providers, technology suppliers and enterprises are currently implementing, as well as the leading-edge concepts that accelerate digital transformation. This showcase demonstrated an outstanding level of collaboration and innovation."
- Daniel Bar-Lev, VP Strategic Programs at MEF
The MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Program drives collaborative work within MEF, where members can partner to demonstrate use cases based on current and developing standards. This year's PoCs demonstrated how MEF 3.0-based network slicing, 5G, LSO orchestration, SD-WAN, Active Service Assurance and SASE can be leveraged to transform user experiences. The showcase featured 18 companies joining forces in seven demonstrations over seven days. This year, the MEF 3.0 PoC Showcase Awards judging panel included analysts from Atlantic ACM, AvidThink, Dell'Oro Group, Omdia, TeleGeography and Vertical Systems Group.
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Upleveling Quality of Experience with Automated Active Assurance
- Blog: Increase Business Productivity with Edge Cloud – MEF 3.0 PoC Showcase 2021
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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