Paragon Automation Overview

As networks have become pervasive and more important in our daily lives, the stakes have increased for ensuring high- quality service and operational experience. In addition, networks have expanded in scale, making them extremely difficult to manage manually. Because human error causes many network outages, an increase in scale means a greater likelihood of human error.

To improve the operational and service experience, it's essential for network operators to reduce the number of network errors, improve resolution times, and gain better visibility into and control of their networks. Automation is the key to realizing these outcomes.

Paragon Automation by Juniper Networks is a modular portfolio of cloud-native software applications that help you simplify network operations by eliminating manual tasks, processes, and workflows that are often repetitive and prone to human error. Paragon Automation delivers closed-loop automation to translate business intent into service performance across the entire service-delivery lifecycle. Paragon Automation builds on Juniper's existing automation portfolio to meet the most pressing challenges of current and next-generation networks and services.

The Paragon Automation portfolio includes the following products, which enable you to perform the network tasks shown in the list:

• Paragon Pathfinder (formerly NorthStar Controller): Design, provision, and optimize segment routing (SR) and MPLS path flows. See Paragon Pathfinder Overview.

• Paragon Planner (formerly NorthStar Planner): Plan, model, and verify services before deploying them; forecast the impact of network changes such as latency, traffic flows, and new traffic; and forecast the impact of new services. See Paragon Planner Overview.

• Paragon Active Assurance (formerly Netrounds): Actively test and assure services across physical, hybrid, and virtual networks. Paragon Active Assurance utilizes synthetic traffic to verify application and service performance at the time of service delivery and throughout the life of the service. See the Paragon Active Assurance technical documentation page.

  Note:

  Currently, Paragon Active Assurance features are not accessible from the Paragon Automation GUI because Paragon Active Assurance is not yet integrated with the Paragon Automation suite of applications.

• Paragon Insights (formerly HealthBot): Diagnose network health and services health using streaming telemetry and machine learning (ML) analytics, which provide actionable insights into network behavior to help you identify and resolve issues quickly. See Paragon Insights Overview.