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Juniper SD-WAN, driven by Juniper Mist AI™, enables exceptional operator and end user network experiences. Powered by Juniper Session Smart™ Routing and Juniper Mist WAN Assurance, it streamlines network operations, enhances productivity, and ensures superior network performance—all while protecting your data and applications.
For a limited time, take advantage of huge savings and promotions on Juniper's full stack of AI-Native campus and branch solutions, featuring industry-leading wired and wireless infrastructure and tunnel-free AI-driven SD-WAN technology.
Juniper's SD-WAN solution sets a new standard for secure, resilient connectivity tailored for today’s cloud-focused enterprises. Leveraging AI-Native insights and automation, this solution simplifies deployment while drastically cutting down troubleshooting time, enhancing operational efficiency across the board. With its innovative, tunnel-free architecture and industry-leading AIOps, Juniper SD-WAN empowers businesses with unprecedented scalability, cost savings, and a significantly more streamlined networking infrastructure that’s perfectly aligned with the demands of today’s digital landscape.
Juniper's microservices cloud solution, Mist AI, ensures rapid deployment through Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and simple templates that offer proven performance. It scales dynamically to align with your dynamic needs, while offering seamless integration via 100% open APIs with platforms like Zoom, Teams, and ServiceNow.
Juniper's Session Smart technology offers unparalleled network visibility and control, providing insights into each session flow while eliminating the inefficiencies and overhead of traditional tunnel-based traffic management. The cutting-edge tunnel-free design enhances bandwidth efficiency, reduces network congestion, and eliminates scaling limitations.
Juniper’s AI-Native Zero Trust architecture seamlessly integrates SSE connectors to any SSE while employing Adaptive Encryption to protect data and prevent double encryption scenarios. Our next-generation firewall (NGFW) stands as the industry's bulwark against threats, utilizing AI to preemptively identify and neutralize exploits and malware, safeguarding your operations from potential disruptions.
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.
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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Seagate Technology® has selected Juniper’s full stack AI-driven enterprise portfolio to support its evolving business needs. The Juniper solution, driven by Mist AI and the cloud, offers Seagate proactive automation and unique client-to-cloud insight, as well as optimized performance and cost savings in key areas of their IT infrastructure.
Seagate, a world leader in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, has multiple sites in 18 countries that share a vast amount of data. As a way of decreasing network costs and optimizing the performance of key applications between these locations, Seagate is moving from a traditional MPLS network to Juniper’s AI-driven SD-WAN solution. Juniper’s unique tunnel-less SD-WAN architecture can help reduce Seagate’s telco and hosting costs, which is ideal for high bandwidth activities like data transfers.
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN is a tunnel-free, application-aware, and Zero Trust secure solution for reliable and secure WAN connectivity.
The Juniper Session Smart Router, Mist AI, and Juniper Mist WAN Assurance make up the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN Solution.
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN improves end user and operator experiences by simplifying operations and improving application performance. Inherent Zero Trust policies and a tunnel-free architecture enable strong network security without sacrificing performance. AI-driven SD-WAN also collects rich telemetry on network traffic, which—when combined with Mist AI—provides actionable insights into user-experience and possible network issues.
Tunnel-free SD-WAN offers many benefits, including:
In a tunnel-free, session-intelligent WAN, traffic is not allowed on the network unless it meets the requirements (users, applications, groups, etc.) defined by the session. This deny-by-default approach ensures a Zero Trust network.
Tunneling protocols like IPsec add about 30% additional bandwidth per packet sent, which reduces available network capacity and slows application performance. (We refer to this wasted overhead as badput.)
Tunneled architectures limit scaling and are inflexible in terms of their topology requirements. They can be hub and spoke, but the hub will slow down real-time traffic. Attempting a point-to-point architecture is possible but becomes very unwieldy and difficult to maintain. A session-based architecture is much more flexible and can optimize for both real-time and asynchronous traffic.
The difference is huge orders of magnitude. Tunneled WANs can often scale to thousands of sessions, while a session-intelligent WAN can scale to millions of sessions. This is because sessions are not kept alive after the user-application transaction is complete. Tunnels continue to exist even when they are not being used.
On top of that, many tunneled SD-WANs are limited to the number of connections they can maintain. With tunnel-free, that limitation disappears.
Juniper’s tunnel-free AI-driven SD-WAN is inherently Zero Trust secure with deny-by-default access policies. The Session Smart Router has built-in next-generation firewall (NGFW) functionality. It is also FIPS 140-2 certified and PCI and HIPAA compliant. For advanced network security, the Juniper SD-WAN solution integrates with Juniper Secure Edge and any third-party security providers to support a complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN is powered by the Session Smart Router, which is software-based and deployable on Juniper SSR Series Routers, white-box customer premises equipment, data center network servers, and the cloud. Session Smart Routers can be managed on premises or in the cloud by the Session Smart Conductor or via the Juniper Mist Cloud.
Small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, telecommunications providers, and managed service providers looking to modernize their network and improve network user experiences should all consider Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN.
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN supports the following use cases:
For information regarding AI-driven SD-WAN deployment services, read the AI-driven SD-WAN Deployment Services datasheet. For help with the Session Smart Router, view our Session Smart Router documentation, take a training course, or join our SD-WAN Community.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, Nauman Raja, 30 September 2024
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