Juniper Networks unveiled significant enhancements to its AI-Native Networking Platform, aiming to deliver seamless and secure SD-WAN and SASE experiences. The update introduces new AI capabilities for its WAN Assurance, Premium Analytics, and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) products. Additionally, Juniper has launched a Routing Assurance product, offering an AI-native automation and insight solution for traditional edge routing topologies.
The enhanced Juniper solution utilizes AI for Networking to provide substantial value to enterprise WAN environments:
Assured SD-WAN Experiences with Proactive AIOps:
- Marvis Minis, Juniper’s digital experience twin solution, now extends to SD-WAN, offering continuous WAN speed tests and proactive actions without user presence.
- New WAN Congestion SLE alerts operators about network interface over-utilization to prevent poor user experiences.
- Expanded streaming dynamic packet capture (dPCAP) for WAN to identify and fix hard-to-find issues, avoiding costly site visits.
- Enhanced application insights for user-friendly traffic visualization, aiding in accurate planning and problem remediation.
Integrated SSE/SD-WAN (SASE) Insight via Expanded Premium Analytics Dashboard:
- New security insights Mist dashboard within Premium Analytics offers comprehensive security event visibility and persona-based policy activation.
- Actionable intelligence allows security teams to quickly identify incidents and respond to threats in real-time.
- Shared portal for networking and security teams to streamline operational workflows, improving efficiency, agility, and cost savings.
First AI-Native WAN Routing Solution:
- Routing Assurance product modernizes WAN edge with customizable service levels for swift issue resolution across connected WAN Edge and peering locations.
- Marvis VNA, expanded to enterprise WAN edge routing, allows IT teams to use simple language queries for routing issue identification and resolution, powered by Generative AI.
- Juniper’s AI-Native and cloud-native solution spans all key networking domains, from campus and branch to data center and all WAN links in between.
“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,” stated Sunalini Sankhavaram, Vice President, Product Development, Juniper Networks.
