AI Hype vs AI-Native Reality in Enterprise Networking

Make the most of AI in enterprise networking

Many vendors claim their “full stack” networking solutions are using AI to streamline operations. However, many of them are actually immature, cobbled together, and offer marginal gains. Discover key considerations for harnessing real AI to truly transform campus and branch networks—and how a unified AI-Native Full Stack approach maximizes outputs.  

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Say goodbye to rollout headaches with the industry’s only microservices architecture across the full stack. Juniper’s solution delivers up to 9x faster deployments and 8x faster network refreshes with zero downtime.  And our industry-first AI-Native Digital Experience Twin anticipates issues before they occur.

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Leverage our 100% open API-based architecture for increased efficiency, better engagements, and robust, secure connectivity. Integrate seamlessly with essential services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and ServiceNow and tap into proactive troubleshooting features for quicker root cause analysis and reduced operating costs.

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Only end-to-end assurance across the full stack

Juniper shifts the paradigm to measure end-user experience and with the industry’s only tunnel-free SD-WAN architecture, with real-time client-level insights correlated across the full stack to proactively resolve and ensure exceptional end user experiences. NAC plus Zero Trust ensures experiences are more secure from start to finish.

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The Juniper wired portfolio, driven by Mist AI™.

Featured Solutions

  • Wired Access

    Juniper’s wired portfolio, coupled with our wireless products, use real-time AI-Native insights and end-to-end automation for the best operator and end-user experiences, from client to cloud.

Featured Products

  • EX Series Switches

    Juniper cloud-grade switches are designed for the converged enterprise branch, campus, and data center. They address growing enterprise demands for high availability, unified communications, and virtualization.

  • Wired Assurance

    Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings cloud management and Mist AI to campus fabrics, from access to core. This service improves the experiences of devices connected through Juniper EX Series Switches and simplifies EVPN-VXLAN campus deployments and operations, delivering new levels of consistency and scale.

  • Access Assurance

    Juniper Mist Access Assurance, our cloud-based network access control service, simplifies user and device onboarding with easy policy creation and enforcement. It removes the struggles of design, deployment, and Day 0/1/2 operations while securing your network edge.

  • Marvis VNA

    Our Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service—the first and only conversational VNA for enterprise networks—simplifies daily IT operations and elevates operator and user experiences.

  • Premium Analytics

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a cloud-based subscription service that provides end-to-end network observability and business intelligence to IT networking, security, and line-of-business users. It is the only service of its kind to offer long-term data storage for full-stack network, security, and location insights.

  • Mist Cloud and AI

    Mist AI uses a combination of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences and simplify operations across the wireless access, wired access, and SD-WAN.

The Juniper wired portfolio, driven by Mist AI™.

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The Juniper wireless portfolio, driven by Mist AI™.

Featured Solutions

  • Wireless Access

    Juniper’s wireless portfolio leverages industry-leading AIOps to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting to elevate user experiences while significantly lowering OPEX.

  • Indoor Location Services

    Juniper Indoor Location Services use patented virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) technology to enable businesses to provide location-based experiences that are engaging, accurate, real-time, and scalable. Juniper Networks is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Indoor Location Services for the third year running.

Featured Products

  • Wi-Fi Assurance

    The Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance cloud service is based on machine learning. It replaces manual troubleshooting tasks with automated wireless operations to make Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable while providing unique visibility into user service levels.

  • Access Assurance

    Juniper Mist Access Assurance, our cloud-based network access control service, simplifies user and device onboarding with easy policy creation and enforcement. It removes the struggles of design, deployment, and Day 0/1/2 operations while securing your network edge.

  • Marvis VNA

    Our Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service—the first and only conversational VNA for enterprise networks—simplifies daily IT operations and elevates operator and user experiences.

  • Wireless Access Points and Edge

    Juniper is leading the convergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® LE, and IoT with our enterprise-grade wireless access points. They work in conjunction with the Juniper Mist cloud architecture and Mist AI to collect metadata from all wireless clients and analyze it in near-real-time for better experiences.

  • Mist Edge

    Juniper Mist Edge extends our microservices architecture to the campus, bringing agility and scale while enabling new applications at the edge. It uses the Juniper Mist Cloud and its distributed software architecture for scalable and resilient operations, management, troubleshooting, and analytics — all without the need for legacy wireless controllers.

  • User Engagement

    The Juniper Mist User Engagement cloud subscription service uses Virtual BLE (vBLE) array technology and cloud-based machine learning to drive down deployment costs and improve the accuracy of real-time indoor location services, from wayfinding to location-based proximity notifications.

  • Asset Visibility

    The Juniper Mist Asset Visibility subscription service makes it easy to find key assets and people using detailed location analytics. Patented virtual Bluetooth® LE (vBLE) technology is integrated into Juniper Access Points, which deliver Wi-Fi network service, enabling you to use the same mobile infrastructure for resource visibility and tracking.

  • Premium Analytics

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a cloud-based subscription service that provides end-to-end network observability and business intelligence to IT networking, security, and line-of-business users. It is the only service of its kind to offer long-term data storage for full-stack network, security, and location insights.

  • Mist Cloud and AI

    Mist AI uses a combination of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences and simplify operations across wireless access, wired access, and SD-WAN.

The Juniper wireless portfolio, driven by Mist AI™.

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Simplify and secure your branches.

Featured Solutions

  • SD-WAN

    Enrich user experiences across the WAN with Session Smart technology and AI-driven insight, automation, and action.

  • SASE

    Transform your network by bringing applications closer to end users around the world seamlessly and securely through a cloud-based, cloud-delivered architecture.

Featured Products

  • WAN Assurance

    The WAN Assurance cloud offering enables simpler operations and better visibility into end-user experiences. That translates into shorter mean time to repair for your connected wired and wireless devices, including IoT endpoints based on application telemetry data across the WAN.

  • Session Smart Router

    Combines a service-centric control plane and a session-aware data plane to offer IP routing, feature-rich policy management, improved visibility, and proactive analytics.

  • SRX Series

    High-performance security with advanced, integrated threat intelligence, delivered on the industry's most scalable and resilient platform.

  • NFX Series

    The NFX Series Network Services Platform family provides secure, standards-compliant CPE devices that simplify the creation and delivery of network services.

  • Marvis VNA

    The Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service is the first AI-Native VNA for enterprise networks and simplifies your daily IT operations.

  • Premium Analytics

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a cloud-based subscription service that provides end-to-end network observability and business intelligence to IT networking, security, and line-of-business users. It is the only service of its kind to offer long-term data storage for full-stack network, security, and location insights.

Simplify and secure your branches.

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Revolutionize user experiences

Featured Solutions

Featured Products

  • User Engagement

    The Juniper Mist User Engagement cloud subscription service uses Virtual BLE (vBLE) array technology and cloud-based machine learning to drive down deployment costs and improve the accuracy of real-time indoor location services, from wayfinding to location-based proximity notifications.

  • Asset Visibility

    The Juniper Mist Asset Visibility subscription service makes it easy to find key assets and people using detailed location analytics. Patented virtual Bluetooth® LE (vBLE) technology is integrated into Juniper Access Points, which deliver Wi-Fi network service, enabling you to use the same mobile infrastructure for resource visibility and tracking.

  • Premium Analytics

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a cloud-based subscription service that provides end-to-end network observability and business intelligence to IT networking, security, and line-of-business users. It is the only service of its kind to offer long-term data storage for full-stack network, security, and location insights.

  • Wi-Fi Assurance

    The Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance cloud service is based on machine learning. It replaces manual troubleshooting tasks with automated wireless operations to make Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable while providing unique visibility into user service levels.

  • Marvis VNA

    Our Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service—the first and only conversational VNA for enterprise networks—simplifies daily IT operations and elevates operator and user experiences.

  • Mist Cloud

    Juniper’s cloud services span network and security domains, enabling effortless scaling with minimal capital investment while using AI and machine learning to automate tasks and resolve issues proactively.

  • Wireless AP

    Juniper Access Points work with Juniper Mist Cloud and Mist AI to deliver premium wireless access capabilities, combining automation and insight with the flexibility and dependability of a modern microservices cloud.

Revolutionize user experiences

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Secure your workforce on and off network.

Featured Solutions

  • SASE

    Transform your network by bringing applications closer to end users around the world seamlessly and securely through a cloud-based, cloud-delivered architecture.

Featured Products

  • WAN Assurance

    The WAN Assurance cloud offering enables simpler operations and better visibility into end-user experiences. That translates into shorter mean time to repair for your connected wired and wireless devices, including IoT endpoints based on application telemetry data across the WAN.  

  • Session Smart Router

    Combines a service-centric control plane and a session-aware data plane to offer IP routing, feature-rich policy management, improved visibility, and proactive analytics.

  • SRX Series

    High-performance security with advanced, integrated threat intelligence, delivered on the industry's most scalable and resilient platform.

  • Marvis VNA

    The Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service is the first AI-Native VNA for enterprise networks and simplifies your daily IT operations.

  • Premium Analytics

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a cloud-based subscription service that provides end-to-end network observability and business intelligence to IT networking, security, and line-of-business users. It is the only service of its kind to offer long-term data storage for full-stack network, security, and location insights.

  • Security Director

    Security management, visibility, and analytics for centralized, automated enforcement.

  • Juniper Secure Edge

    Secure your workforce and applications with consistent security policies that follow users wherever they go.

Secure your workforce on and off network.

CUSTOMER SUCCESS

ServiceNow network transformation starts with Mist AI

The most successful businesses work smarter—not harder. ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company, is an engine behind this transformation, with its streamlined and configurable workflows that help companies work more productively. Founded in 2004, ServiceNow is at the top of the digital workflows marketplace and admired for its fiscal, social, and corporate leadership.

With 75 locations and more than 22,000 employees, ServiceNow examined its own workflows and realized network automation was a necessity to accelerate its own business transformation. ServiceNow has teamed up with Juniper to migrate its network to a next-generation, full-stack wired, wireless, and SD-WAN solution.  

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, et al., 6 March 2024.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Tim Zimmerman, Annette Zimmermann, February 28, 2024.

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Juniper Networks is recognized as Juniper in the 2024, 2022, and 2021 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure reports.