Simplicity. Productivity. Reliability.
These are all admirable network attributes by themselves. But anyone who has spent time trying to manage a business-critical network knows that it’s the combination of all three that is the real key to delivering exceptional user experiences with limited IT resources.
How is Juniper able to deliver on this trifecta? We call it the AI-Native Networking Platform.
It’s the basis for everything we do to help our customers provide elevated, exceptional network experiences to end users while making operators’ lives a little easier so they can make time for the important things like new strategic initiatives, game-changing innovations, or catching their kid’s next baseball game.
AI-Native insights and automation deliver simplicity, productivity, and reliability/assurance like never seen before in the history of networking. No more hunting and pecking through dashboards. No more wild goose chases when troubleshooting a problem. No more making changes that won’t actually improve user experiences. This is The NOW Way to Network, and here are some specific examples of what sets Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform apart.
Keep it simple with prescriptive and proactive actions
Let’s be honest, networks are complicated. They must be diverse enough to support a multitude of clients and applications distributed across different locations.
To make things worse, if the network goes down, everything stops. Employees can’t access the right data. Students cannot submit their papers. Telemedicine grinds to a halt.
I’m not here to say we can eliminate network complexity entirely, but I can promise you that we can make your network simpler and more intuitive to manage and maintain.
How do we do that? AI, operated via the cloud.
We take data from the past nine years of working with some of the most complex, high-performance networks on the planet and apply various AI, ML, and data science techniques to turn all that data into actionable insights in real time. That in and of itself brings a huge degree of order to what can be a chaotic situation. But to make accessing and actioning this data that much simpler, we introduced the industry’s first AI-Native virtual network assistant: Marvis.
With Marvis, you can ask simple language questions like “What’s wrong with my network today?” and you get very descriptive and prescriptive answers like “Switch 5 has a bad cable connected to port 12, which has impacted the following users. Please test and replace the cable.”
With a VNA by your side, you can easily find issues, including needle in haystack problems, without hunting and pecking through countless dashboards or endless event logs. Marvis turns big data into big insights so IT can focus on what matters most. And that’s a really big deal.
More productive operator experiences
Simplicity and productivity are two sides of the same coin. When we improve your ability to see, understand, and proactively remediate network issues, you spend less time on tactical firefighting and more time on strategic initiatives, like rolling out new capabilities.
For example, the AI-Native Networking Platform correlates activities across various domains—wired, wireless, and WAN—so you know exactly where an issue is, what caused it, and how to fix it. Your team stops chasing the wrong leads and no longer wastes time trying to recreate intermittent issues that are almost impossible to reproduce—arguably the biggest time killer in the industry.
An example we see all the time is problems with Zoom or Teams. Is it the application? The computer or mobile device? The wireless network? WAN? Maybe it’s someone’s cat doing a little dance on their keyboard?
Our AI-Native Network uses event correlation to instantly pinpoint the problem and get to root cause exponentially quicker than any human ever could, giving your team the information they need to be the network hero.
We have also brought AIOps and intent-based networking to the data center to provide equally impressive productivity gains in that domain. For example, Juniper avoids configuration errors when rolling out new services and delivers a single source of truth when managing multiple vendors’ devices. This means things get done correctly the first time, which avoids another big “time sink” when it comes to IT operations.
Assured user experiences
Network reliability is a top priority for any IT team, but it’s not always something easily achieved.
Simply being up and running doesn’t necessarily mean that users are having optimal experiences.
So how can you be assured that your network is reliable and how can you ensure that the experiences are universally exceptional? A good place to start is Service Level Expectations, or SLEs.
With our AI-Native Network, you can configure key metrics that impact user experiences, monitor them, and take action if there is an issue.
For example, in wireless, you can set customizable SLEs for roaming, coverage, capacity, and throughput, among other key attributes. If any user falls below a threshold, take 80% for example, Marvis automatically notifies IT and/or takes corrective action. This helps to ensure the network is as reliable as possible. More importantly, it assures you that those connections don’t just exist, they’re performing at full potential.
Another good example is the microservices cloud we use with our AI-Native Networking Platform. It’s literally designed for reliability from the ground up. If a service fails, another one automatically comes up. If an upgrade is required, there is no need to take the entire cloud down.
This is how companies like Netflix, Twitter, and other “always-on” networks operate with zero downtime and no impact to network performance.
And now, it’s available to you with Juniper Networks.
Defining The NOW Way to Network for the AI era
Our new campaign represents a milestone for Juniper Networks. Not from a marketing perspective, but from an innovation perspective. It’s our opportunity to share the groundbreaking benefits of our AI-Native Networking Platform. It’s a chance to shout from the rooftops that operators can have the simplicity, productivity, reliability, and assurance to have an exceptional network experience and deliver that same excellence to their users.
Have you seen our new commercial? Check it out here:
And go here if you want more details on how we’re transforming modern networking:
Our AI-Native Networking Platform is at the heart of everything we do.
And we’re always here to connect 1:1 with you on how Juniper can help you tap into the transformative power of The NOW Way to Network.
