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AI-Native SD-Branch
Experience unparalleled simplicity, productivity, and reliability
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch elevates branch-office communications while reducing OpEx by up to 85%. It leverages the industry's first and only AI-Native Networking Platform, integrating SD-WAN, switching, Wi-Fi, and security from the Juniper Mist cloud, to deliver superior user and operator experiences. Tunnel-free Session Smart™ Routing technology significantly enhances application performance and ensures fast response times. In addition, with over nine years of reinforced learning, Juniper Mist AI™ streamlines troubleshooting while significantly reducing downtime.
How Juniper can help
Our AI-Native SD-Branch solution simplifies network configuration, deployment, and operations across wired and wireless LANs, WANs, and security with cloud-based management, enabling IT teams to do more with less.
Maximize network reliability and efficiency with AIOps
Leverage Juniper AIOps (AI for IT operations) to reduce networking trouble tickets by up to 90% and onsite IT visits by up to 85%. Our AI, which provides core functionality in the Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform, has been built on years of reinforced learning to ensure reliable, measurable, and secure network connections.
Enjoy enhanced predictive network management
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch uses explainable AI with more than 150 real-time user state detections. It continuously learns from third-party sources, optimizes customized service levels, and automates workflows for proactive network management. These advanced capabilities enable IT teams to predict issues before they occur, ensuring seamless operations and exceptional experiences.
Unlock network assurance
Extend network assurance to applications and services with Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform, powered by a modern elastic cloud for AI/ML processes and supported by an open API ecosystem.
Support sustainability goals
Advance your sustainability initiatives with a platform featuring robust technology engineered to be energy efficient and long lasting.
Experience unmatched innovation and reliability
Trusted by four of the Fortune 10, the Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch solution stands out with 10x more feature updates per year than the competition. It is also the only 100% API-driven networking platform.
The Products
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WAN Assurance
Juniper Mist WAN Assurance simplifies operations, improves visibility into end user experiences, and shortens SD-WAN mean time to resolution (MTTR).
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Session Smart Router
Our software-defined router provides a flexible, application-aware network fabric that meets stringent enterprise performance, security, and availability requirements. Its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) features enable selective enforcement of attack detection and prevention techniques on network traffic.
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Marvis VNA
The Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud service is the first and only cloud service that offers a natural language conversational interface for enterprise networks, enabling simple and seamless interactions to optimize user and operator experiences.
PRODUCT FAMILY
Mist AI uses a combination of AI, machine learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences and simplify operations across wireless access, wired access, and SD-WAN domains.
PRODUCT FAMILY
Juniper is leading the convergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® LE, and IoT with our access points (APs). Juniper APs work seamlessly with the Juniper Mist Cloud architecture and Mist AI, enabling near real-time metadata collection and analysis from all wireless clients.
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Wi-Fi Assurance
Driven by Mist AI and machine learning, the Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance cloud service automates troubleshooting and operations. It ensures wireless networks are predictable, reliable, and measurable while providing near-real-time visibility into service levels.
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Wired Assurance
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings Mist AI to access-layer switching. It sets a new network management standard with AI-Native operations and automation, improving the experiences of devices connected through Juniper EX Series Switches.
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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 reduces design, deployment, and Day 0/1/2 operations challenges while securing your network edge.
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User Engagement
Juniper Mist User Engagement uses virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) array technology and cloud-based machine learning to reduce deployment costs and improve the accuracy of real-time indoor location services.
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Asset Visibility
Asset Visibility makes it easy to find key assets and people, with detailed location analytics always at your fingertips.
PRODUCT FAMILY
Juniper cloud-ready EX Series switches are designed for the converged enterprise branch, campus, and data center. They address growing enterprise demands for high availability, unified communications, and virtualization.
Customer Success
AI-driven, Zero Trust network yields business agility for AmeriTrust
AmeriTrust, a specialty insurance commercial underwriter and administration services company, looked to digital transformation to fuel growth. It embarked on an ambitious effort to streamline IT operations, strengthen cybersecurity, and drive business success in an unpredictable and changing world.
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What is Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch?
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch simplifies branch office communications with AI-Native, software-defined routing, switching, Wi-Fi, and security delivered from the Juniper Mist Cloud. Tunnel-free Session Smart™ Routing accelerates application performance for faster response times while Mist AI™ automates operations and speeds troubleshooting. With visibility into the real-time service levels of individual users, network administrators can continuously fine-tune the network and optimize user experiences.
What are the components of Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch?
The SD-Branch solution includes an array of industry-leading Juniper components, such as:
- AI-driven SD-WAN, complemented by WAN Assurance
- Wired access networking, complemented by Wired Assurance
- Wireless access networking, complemented by Wi-Fi Assurance, and Indoor Location Services
- Network Access Control, complemented by Access Assurance
- Modern enterprise security that encompasses Next-Generation Firewall functionality, deny-by-default Zero Trust access, adaptive encryption, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and URL filtering
Combine SD-Branch with Juniper Secure Edge for additional security and a complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution.
What sets Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch apart from competitive solutions?
Juniper offers the industry’s only comprehensive full stack branch solution operated from a single cloud-native and AI-Native platform. Juniper is also the only vendor with a microservices cloud architecture that is purpose-built for rapid deployment of devices. This includes Wi-Fi access points, access and distribution switches, and SD-WAN gateways—all managed from the same cloud portal. It also features zero scheduled downtime for upgrades and near-real-time visibility into user experience. Juniper’s use of tunnel-free Session Smart™ Routing enhances application performance for faster response times, eliminating the slowdowns associated with traditional tunneling protocols.
What are the features and benefits of Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch?
The SD-Branch solution delivers:
- AI-Native insights for better visibility into network performance
- Anomaly detection to ensure application performance and network uptime
- Full-stack integration with the Juniper Mist Cloud for accelerated deployments and simplified policy enforcement and management
- Threat-aware network security that protects across every network connection point
- Fast onboarding with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
- Integrated security that defends against evolving threats while maintaining compliance with company policies
What unique security advantages does Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch provide?
The primary security advantage is the deny-by-default approach to session access that establishes a Zero Trust environment. Administrators explicitly define policies for valid sessions and any session without a valid policy is dropped. Access Assurance further enhances this environment by ensuring strict adherence to compliance and access policies.
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch includes numerous built-in security features, including corporate network firewall functions and policy-based policing and forwarding. This enables enterprises to provide differentiated security and services to every traffic flow.
In addition, Juniper Session Smart Routers, which power the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN component of the AI-Native SD-Branch solution, can encrypt/decrypt and authenticate any packet flowing through them. With adaptive encryption, these routers dynamically detect encrypted sessions and prevent double encryption.
Finally, when businesses need more security, AI-Native SD-Branch works with Juniper Secure Edge. This provides full stack security service edge (SSE) capabilities, delivering a comprehensive SASE solution.
How do you deploy the Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch solution?
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch enables simple and secure deployment and provisioning for all Day 0, 1, and 2 operations. Devices—including access points, switches, and Session Smart Routers—can be preconfigured using configuration templates in the Juniper Mist Cloud and shipped to customer sites for plug-and-play setup that typically only takes a matter of minutes.
Network administrators simply scan the claim code on the devices to instantly apply predefined configurations. They can then apply additional policies via templates and remotely provide updates from the Juniper Mist Cloud portal.
For a full description of SD-Branch deployment steps, which includes implementation training resources and other tools, see the SD-Branch Implementation Guide.
Who should use Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch?
Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch is an ideal solution for small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, telecommunications providers, and managed service providers looking to simplify network management, improve user experiences, and strengthen their security posture. For businesses with limited IT resources, the AI-Native SD-Branch solution reduces deployment times and time spent troubleshooting network issues, freeing up valuable resources for other critical tasks.
What companies are using Juniper SD-Branch?
Businesses and institutions across financial services, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing rely on Juniper AI-Native SD-Branch, including four of the Fortune 10. For example, AmeriTrust, a specialty insurance commercial underwriter and administration services company, uses AI-Native SD-Branch to react faster and make better decisions, deliver optimized and secure user experiences, and enable Zero Trust access.
Read the AmeriTrust case study for deeper insights into an SD-Branch deployment and see the AI-Native SD-Branch Solution Brief for other customer examples.