Juniper Networks Expands AI-Native Routing Portfolio with AI-Native Automation and Extended Coverage to the Edge
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) has announced significant enhancements to its routing portfolio, leveraging Mist AI technology for improved WAN routing performance and automation. The company introduced the new ACX7020 Access Edge Router and enhanced its Paragon portfolio with AI-native routing observability, proactive troubleshooting capabilities, and intent-based network optimization.
Key innovations include comprehensive visibility and control of end-to-end routing using AI Operations (AIOps), which has demonstrated up to 85% reduction in ongoing expenditures. The solution features an LLM Connector for advanced conversational interactions and supports fully intent-driven traffic engineering policies. Additionally, Juniper introduced energy-efficient automation that can identify and switch off unused modules to reduce power consumption.
The new ACX7020 Access Edge Router is designed for both indoor and outdoor environments, featuring a compact form factor and plug-and-play support for AI-Native Routing, extending WAN coverage to customer premises.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) ha annunciato significativi miglioramenti al suo portfolio di routing, sfruttando la tecnologia Mist AI per migliorare le prestazioni del routing WAN e l'automazione. L'azienda ha introdotto il nuovo Router di Accesso ACX7020 e ha potenziato il suo portfolio Paragon con osservabilità del routing nativa all'AI, capacità di risoluzione proattiva dei problemi e ottimizzazione della rete basata sull'intento.
Le principali innovazioni includono visibilità e controllo completi del routing end-to-end utilizzando le Operazioni AI (AIOps), che hanno dimostrato una riduzione fino all'85% delle spese correnti. La soluzione presenta un connettore LLM per interazioni conversazionali avanzate e supporta politiche di ingegneria del traffico completamente guidate dall'intento. Inoltre, Juniper ha introdotto un'automazione energeticamente efficiente in grado di identificare e disattivare moduli non utilizzati per ridurre il consumo energetico.
Il nuovo Router di Accesso ACX7020 è progettato per ambienti sia interni che esterni, con un fattore di forma compatto e supporto plug-and-play per il Routing Nativo AI, estendendo la copertura WAN ai locali dei clienti.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) ha anunciado mejoras significativas en su portafolio de enrutamiento, aprovechando la tecnología Mist AI para mejorar el rendimiento del enrutamiento WAN y la automatización. La compañía presentó el nuevo Router de Acceso ACX7020 y mejoró su portafolio Paragon con observabilidad de enrutamiento nativa de IA, capacidades de resolución proactiva de problemas y optimización de red basada en la intención.
Las principales innovaciones incluyen visibilidad y control completos del enrutamiento de extremo a extremo utilizando Operaciones de IA (AIOps), que han demostrado una reducción de hasta el 85% en los gastos operativos. La solución cuenta con un conector LLM para interacciones conversacionales avanzadas y admite políticas de ingeniería de tráfico completamente impulsadas por la intención. Además, Juniper introdujo una automatización energéticamente eficiente que puede identificar y apagar módulos no utilizados para reducir el consumo de energía.
El nuevo Router de Acceso ACX7020 está diseñado para entornos tanto interiores como exteriores, con un factor de forma compacto y soporte plug-and-play para el Enrutamiento Nativo de IA, ampliando la cobertura WAN a las instalaciones del cliente.
주니퍼 네트웍스 (NYSE: JNPR)는 미스트 AI 기술을 활용하여 WAN 라우팅 성능과 자동화를 개선하는 라우팅 포트폴리오의 중요한 향상을 발표했습니다. 이 회사는 새로운 ACX7020 액세스 엣지 라우터를 소개하고 AI 기반 라우팅 관측, 능동적인 문제 해결 기능 및 의도 기반 네트워크 최적화로 Paragon 포트폴리오를 강화했습니다.
주요 혁신 사항으로는 AI 운영(AIOps)을 사용한 종단 간 라우팅의 포괄적인 가시성과 제어가 포함되어 있으며, 이는 지속적인 지출을 최대 85%까지 줄이는 데 기여했습니다. 이 솔루션은 고급 대화형 상호작용을 위한 LLM 커넥터를 특징으로 하며, 완전히 의도 기반의 트래픽 엔지니어링 정책을 지원합니다. 또한, 주니퍼는 사용하지 않는 모듈을 식별하고 끌 수 있는 에너지 효율적인 자동화를 도입하여 전력 소비를 줄일 수 있습니다.
새로운 ACX7020 액세스 엣지 라우터는 실내외 환경 모두에 적합하도록 설계되었으며, 컴팩트한 폼 팩터와 AI 기반 라우팅을 위한 플러그 앤 플레이 지원을 제공하여 고객의 장소로 WAN 범위를 확장합니다.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) a annoncé des améliorations significatives de son portefeuille de routage, en tirant parti de la technologie Mist AI pour améliorer les performances du routage WAN et l'automatisation. L'entreprise a présenté le nouveau Routeur d'Accès ACX7020 et a renforcé son portefeuille Paragon avec une observabilité de routage native à l'IA, des capacités de dépannage proactif et une optimisation du réseau basée sur l'intention.
Les principales innovations comprennent une visibilité et un contrôle complets du routage de bout en bout utilisant les opérations d'IA (AIOps), qui ont montré une réduction des dépenses en cours allant jusqu'à 85%. La solution dispose d'un connecteur LLM pour des interactions conversationnelles avancées et prend en charge des politiques d'ingénierie du trafic entièrement basées sur l'intention. De plus, Juniper a introduit une automatisation écoénergétique capable d'identifier et d'éteindre les modules inutilisés pour réduire la consommation d'énergie.
Le nouveau Routeur d'Accès ACX7020 est conçu pour des environnements intérieurs et extérieurs, avec un facteur de forme compact et un support plug-and-play pour le routage natif à l'IA, étendant la couverture WAN aux locaux des clients.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) hat bedeutende Verbesserungen seines Routing-Portfolios angekündigt und dabei die Technologie Mist AI genutzt, um die WAN-Routing-Leistung und Automatisierung zu verbessern. Das Unternehmen stellte den neuen ACX7020 Access Edge Router vor und erweiterte sein Paragon-Portfolio mit KI-nativer Routing-Überwachung, proaktiven Fehlerbehebungsfunktionen und absichtsbasierten Netzwerkoptimierungen.
Zu den wichtigsten Innovationen gehören umfassende Sichtbarkeit und Kontrolle des End-to-End-Routings mithilfe von AI Operations (AIOps), die eine Reduzierung der laufenden Ausgaben um bis zu 85% gezeigt haben. Die Lösung verfügt über einen LLM Connector für fortschrittliche interaktive Gespräche und unterstützt vollständig absichtsgesteuerte Verkehrsingenieurpolitik. Darüber hinaus hat Juniper eine energieeffiziente Automatisierung eingeführt, die ungenutzte Module identifizieren und abschalten kann, um den Stromverbrauch zu senken.
Der neue ACX7020 Access Edge Router ist sowohl für Innen- als auch Außenbereiche konzipiert und bietet ein kompaktes Design sowie Plug-and-Play-Unterstützung für KI-natives Routing, wodurch die WAN-Abdeckung auf die Standorte der Kunden ausgeweitet wird.
- Introduction of AI-native routing observability reducing operational expenses by up to 85%
- Launch of new ACX7020 Access Edge Router expanding WAN coverage
- Implementation of energy-efficient automation for reduced power consumption
- Enhanced automation capabilities through Mist AI integration
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Insights
Juniper's latest AI-Native routing portfolio expansion represents a strategic masterstroke in the evolving network infrastructure market. The integration of Mist AI for WAN routing directly addresses a critical market pain point: the exponential growth in network complexity driven by AI workloads and unpredictable traffic patterns. The promised 85% reduction in operational expenditures through AI-driven automation could translate into substantial competitive advantages for enterprise customers.
The introduction of the ACX7020 Access Edge Router with AI-Native capabilities positions Juniper to capture a larger share of the edge computing market, particularly important as enterprises accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. The router's I-Temp rating and compact form factor make it especially valuable for space-constrained deployments, opening new revenue opportunities in industrial and outdoor applications.
The energy-efficient automation features, including intelligent port and line card management, align perfectly with growing corporate sustainability mandates and rising energy costs. This could be a key differentiator in winning large enterprise contracts where ESG considerations increasingly influence purchasing decisions.
Most significantly, the integration of LLM Connector demonstrates Juniper's forward-thinking approach to network management. By allowing customers to leverage their own LLM deployments for troubleshooting, Juniper is creating an open ecosystem that could become increasingly valuable as private AI implementations grow. This positions the company advantageously in the rapidly evolving AI-driven networking market, where automated operations and predictive maintenance are becoming standard requirements.
Mist AI™ helps assure exceptional WAN routing performance at scale with proactive troubleshooting, closed-loop remediation and ongoing optimization
The ongoing rapid increase in network traffic across both service provider and enterprise WANs, and the rise of new, unpredictable traffic patterns—such as Generative AI (GenAI) workloads—is intensifying the need for reliable, high-performance WAN connectivity and driving up operational complexity. Juniper’s expanded AI-Native Routing portfolio addresses this challenge with advanced automation that scales to the largest enterprises, cloud and service provider networks.
WAN Automation drives exceptional experiences at scale
The Juniper® Paragon portfolio makes automating the WAN intuitively easy, from Day 0 to Day 2+. It reduces deployment times while ensuring that both network operations teams and end users have consistently amazing experiences. As a key solution within the Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform, Paragon has been enhanced with the following capabilities:
- AI-native routing observability: Mist AI now provides comprehensive visibility and control of end-to-end routing using AI Operations (AIOps). This helps to detect complex routing issues and anomalies and proactively recommend actions. By introducing new levels of insight and automation to network operators, Mist AI has been proven to reduce ongoing expenditures by up to 85 percent in some instances.
- Proactive troubleshooting with LLM Connector: In addition to leveraging Marvis®, Juniper’s leading Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) driven by Mist AI, LLM Connector gives customers the option of leveraging their own LLM (large language model) deployments for advanced conversational interactions. This enables straightforward troubleshooting to accelerate resolution of even the most complex routing issues.
- Intent-based network optimization: Juniper now supports fully intent-driven traffic engineering policies that streamline and simplify routing optimization to meet the performance requirements of the applications that use the network. This builds on the established knowledge inherent to Juniper WAN solutions, created via decades of sophisticated deployments that involve many terabytes of traffic and thousands of optimizations each month.
Best-in-class routing platforms for performance and sustainability
Juniper's comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed routers offer unparalleled capacity, agility and operational consistency with the end-to-end automation required for service-aware networks that power today’s hyperconnected world. The Juniper AI-Native Routing solution has been augmented with the following new capabilities:
- Reduced energy bills and consumption with a new energy-efficient automation use case: Juniper leverages port, port group and line card sleep features within its routing platforms to scan, identify and switch off any quantity of modules that are not required to support current traffic demand.*
- Extended WAN coverage into customer premises with the ACX7020 Access Edge Router: The ACX7020 is an I-Temp-rated access router deployable in both indoor and outdoor environments and features a compact form factor for installation in space-constrained locations. With this router, network operators can deliver exceptional performance by connecting endpoints directly to the WAN, with plug-and-play support for AI-Native Routing.
Supporting Quotes
“Operators and enterprises urgently need to plan for future traffic complexity and control spiraling costs and complexity. With AI-Native Networking Juniper addresses both. By combining Juniper’s proven Mist AI experience with its strong Paragon WAN automation portfolio—and by integrating both with the Juniper routing and switching portfolio—Juniper addresses two of the most pressing industry challenges: 1) how to efficiently manage huge (often AI-driven) data flows across WANs and 2) how to gain both higher productivity and better WAN outcomes, simultaneously. With this announcement, Juniper is expanding its AI-Native Networking Platform into private and core/transport WANs to streamline their deployment, management and operation. With plug-&-play support for the new ACX7020 Edge Access Router, Juniper is giving customers the power and simplicity of AI-driven configuration of the complex enterprise/WAN edge – enabling support for a multitude of new services including AI traffic. For operators, AIOps and intent-based networking optimization across the WAN promises much lower costs and much higher user satisfaction, which is a significant win-win.”
- Grant Lenahan, Partner & Principal Analyst, Appledore Research
“Technical leaders of enterprise, cloud and service provider organizations alike face multi-faceted challenges to deliver the best possible business results from the WAN in the AI era. Reliability, performance and empowered users must be balanced against CapEx/OpEx and capacity pressures, operational complexity and sustainability goals. In response, Juniper is delivering the industry’s first converged, comprehensive AI-Native routing solution, taking another step toward the fully Self-Driving Network™. By leveraging a combination of innovation and advanced automation, we’re helping customers to quickly lower WAN running costs, enable out-of-the-box simplicity, achieve significant energy efficiency and drive exceptional experiences at scale.”
- AE Natarajan, Executive Vice President & Chief Development Officer, Juniper Networks
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Additional Resources
Blog: Enhanced AI-Native Routing for private and service provider WAN: the cornerstone of autonomous networking
WAN Portfolio Overview: WAN Solutions
theCUBE white paper: AI-Native Routing: Enterprise Private WANs for the AI Era
Datasheet: Juniper Paragon Automation
Datasheet: Juniper ACX7020 Cloud Metro Routers
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