New Enhancements to Juniper Networks’ AI-Driven Enterprise Portfolio Make Campus Fabric Management and Wired/Wireless Remediation Easier than Ever
September 14, 2021 at 07:45 am EDT
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Juniper Networks announced new features within the AI-driven enterprise portfolio that enable customers to scale and simplify the rollout of their campus wired and wireless networks while bringing greater insight and automation to network operators. The enhancements to the Juniper Mist cloud and AI engine, which include EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric management and additional Marvis Actions for proactive problem remediation, expand on Juniper’s unique automation, AIOps and cloud capabilities to streamline IT operations, lower costs and deliver agility and scale. AI-driven campus fabric management via the Juniper Mist Cloud: Campus networks have often leveraged proprietary technologies and complicated L2/L3 architectures that were not designed to meet modern requirements of today’s soaring number of mobile users and IoT devices.Further, while EVPN-VXLAN technology offers many advantages over traditional fabric management options, it can be complex to deploy and manage. By enabling EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric management via the Juniper Mist Wired Assurance cloud service, Juniper offers the ability to simplify wired, wireless and WAN via a common cloud and AIOps engine. Juniper EVPN-VXLAN fabric leverages the same Juniper platform used to manage wired access in the campus, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and the Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA), bringing IT administrators unparalleled automation, insight and troubleshooting. This not only provides a common operational framework for all wired access deployments, configurations and Day 2 operations, but also utilizes a single AI-driven support model where self-driving operations and predictive actions can alleviate problems before they arise. The Juniper Mist Cloud empowers administrators to choose a topology, define networks of interest, identify required physical connections and apply the correct underlying policies in a seamless fashion. In addition, the Juniper Mist solution enables customers to leverage a common operational schema across LAN, WLAN and WAN environments, a key part of the Juniper client-to-cloud differentiation. New Marvis Actions that provide deeper insight for faster problem remediation: Marvis Actions takes insight derived from the Mist AI engine, such as the root cause of a problem, and delivers actionable recommendations for IT managers via a simple dashboard. It is the first – and in many instances, the only – place customers must look to monitor and manage the health of their Juniper Mist network, offering consummate simplicity, intelligence and ease across Juniper wired, wireless and SD-WAN networks. Since the introduction of the Marvis VNA in 2018, Juniper has consistently added new capabilities to help remedy common problems, such as misconfigured VLANs, offline devices, non-compliant software, DHCP/802.1x/PSK failures and loops. Now, additional actions have been added to the Marvis VNA software subscription to detect and correct even more wired/wireless/WAN issues, such as persistently failing wired/wireless clients, bad cables, access point (AP) coverage holes, bad WAN links and insufficient RF capacity, among others.
Juniper Networks, Inc. is one of the world's leaders in designing and marketing ultra-high-speed Internet routing equipment. The group's products are primarily intended for telecommunication service providers, government organizations, educational institutions, and research centers. The group's activity is organized around 4 families of products and services:
- networking infrastructure products: high-performance routers and broadband connection equipment;
- network switching products: Ethernet switches, data center switches, etc.;
- IT security products and solutions : firewalls, VPN systems, security housings, intrusion detectors, etc. The group also offers application acceleration solutions.
- consulting, maintenance and training services.
Net sales break down by market into enterprises (46%), service providers (33.1%) and cloud operators (20.9%).
Products are manufactured by subcontractors.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United States (55.1%), the Americas (4.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (25.3%) and Asia/Pacific (14.8%).