Extend your campus edge without legacy controllers
Traditional wireless LAN solutions typically rely on antiquated architectures that lack the scale, reliability, and agility needed to address today’s diverse enterprise needs. In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, businesses require seamless communication, collaboration, and data access, especially as users, devices, and applications increasingly shift to the edge.
Introducing the Juniper Mist Edge ME-X6
In response to customer needs for AI-Native wireless agility and scale at the campus edge—minus the hassles of legacy wireless controllers—Juniper is excited to introduce the Juniper® Mist™ Edge (ME-X6) appliance.
Juniper Mist Edge supports data centralization, which is a critical leap forward for organizations limited by legacy network designs, and for those that want seamless wireless mobility for guest and remote access. The new ME-X6 appliance is a powerhouse packed into a compact, ruggedized frame that:
- Boasts four 10/25G ports for 100G of capacity
- Supports up to 100,000 clients
- Provides future-ready capabilities for ever-growing campus bandwidth needs
Juniper Mist Edge is ideal for hospitals, universities, retail or manufacturing sites with large hybrid infrastructures. When using Juniper Mist Edge, organizations gain the advantage of having data analyzed by the Juniper Mist microservices cloud and the Mist AI engine. This unique combination delivers agility, reliability, and operational simplicity while enabling simplified, seamless, large campus roaming and secure IoT with dynamic segmentation.
Don’t just “upgrade.” Evolve.
Ready to say goodbye to rigid, centralized controllers limiting what you can do with Wi-Fi?
Juniper Mist Edge is more than just another network solution; it’s an invitation to modernize your architecture. It empowers your campus to break free from the shackles of outdated technology and explore the game-changing possibilities of a decentralized, agile network.
With the help of Mist AI, Juniper Mist Edge brings AI-native intelligence and agility directly to your access points (APs). Think of it as providing automated adaptability and optimization for each hotspot at the constantly evolving edge of your campus network. Of course, the big question is, how does this solution translate into tangible, real-world benefits?
Let’s take a closer look at the benefits you can expect from this solution and see where Juniper is extending the cloud to the campus edge and advancing our customers to a modern architecture. Juniper Mist Edge solves multiple wireless challenges while increasing network flexibility and operational efficiency. Enterprises can:
- Easily move from a legacy controller architecture to a modern microservices cloud without impacting the existing network design
- Expand microservices on the campus for scalable and resilient wireless operations, troubleshooting, and analytics
- Extend VLANs to distributed branches and telecommuters, replacing remote VPN technology
- Separate guest access and corporate traffic
- Provide dynamic traffic segmentation for IoT devices
Tunneling microservice: a bridge between old and new worlds
Now there is no need to rip and replace your existing network infrastructure. Mist Edge seamlessly bridges the gap between your legacy system and the modern cloud, guiding your campus into the future. With standards-based tunneling technology, you can gradually migrate to Juniper Mist’s microservices architecture, one WLAN at a time—with minimal to zero downtime.
Flexible traffic redirection: juggling guests, IoT devices, faculty, and everything in between
Consider these challenging scenarios:
- Managing guest Wi-Fi and factory IoT devices in the same campus network
- Securing faculty connections and research projects on the same network as student Wi-Fi
Sounds risky and stressful, right? With Juniper Mist Edge, this isn’t a chaotic scramble; it’s a meticulously orchestrated and seamless transition. You can direct different WLANs to different Juniper Mist Edge appliances, ensuring students can get their TikTok fix while professors enjoy uninterrupted video conferencing. Think of it as building invisible data highways, each customized for the flow of knowledge and innovation without exposing critical information unnecessarily.
Unbreakable resilience: when redundancy meets agility
Say goodbye to network downtime worries. Juniper Mist Edge’s flexible cluster can handle any sized network and instantly switch to another node in the cluster if needed. No matter how many devices you have or how much data you’re pushing, Juniper Mist Edge optimizes everything for smooth performance. And if the worst happens, your access points automatically jump to another data center, keeping you connected no matter what.
Simplified management and operations
Wired and wireless networks aren’t just business critical; they are the backbone of today’s operations. And they only grow in importance as they support more and more mobile and IoT devices—in addition to the extensive variety of hardware, operating systems, and applications currently in use.
Traditional architectures—highly manual and network-centric—lack the scale, flexibility, and end-to-end visibility required to support modern mobility requirements, adding to the burden of the IT departments that manage them.
The most valuable aspect of Mist Edge lies in its ability to provide comprehensive visibility into all network packets. The Juniper Mist Cloud stands out by offering insight into client data—it lowers OpEx and delivers unprecedented insights into network performance, behaviors, traffic patterns, and potential trouble spots by using data science to analyze large amounts of rich metadata collected by Juniper Access Points.
This granular visibility not only empowers administrators to make informed decisions and resolve issues proactively, but it also enhances overall network security and compliance.
Learn more
Ready to unleash the true potential of your campus network? Juniper Mist Edge brings you agility and scale while also giving you the freedom to explore new applications at the edge.
Watch our video and read the Juniper Mist Edge datasheet to discover how this revolutionary technology can transform your campus landscape.
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