How much is digital transformation worth to a typical enterprise? It sounds like an abstract question, but there’s a concrete answer. According to McKinsey, digital leaders return 26 percent more equity to shareholders. With that kind of ROI, it’s easy to understand why enterprises in every industry are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and other digital innovations can help them optimize business operations. As they do, however, many find themselves running into the same wall preventing them from realizing their transformation goals: the enterprise wide-area network (WAN).
For too long, enterprises have been held back by legacy networks that are too rigid, too inefficient, and generate far too much CO² emissions and waste. Often, these network limitations ensure that even the best-laid digital transformation plans will fail to deliver the results that organizations hoped to achieve. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Juniper Networks has a vision for a more agile and sustainable enterprise network. A network built on more than two decades of routing silicon and system innovations. A network that accelerates digital transformation instead of hindering it. This intelligent network uses intent-based automation to dynamically self-optimize and deliver the best possible experiences. It provides a more reliable, more secure, high-performance foundation to meet changing business needs—at a lower cost, with lower energy consumption and emissions. Best of all, Juniper is ready to deliver this transformation-ready enterprise WAN.
Recently, we announced our intention to embed experience-first, AI-enabled operations (AIOps) intelligence across our portfolio. With our enterprise routers, we offer a blueprint to modernize the WAN for AI-Native Networking and lay the foundation for tomorrow’s most transformative digital applications. If you’re part of a large or global enterprise, and you haven’t recently evaluated Juniper enterprise routing solutions, it’s time to take a closer look.
Juniper Enterprise Routing: Building the WAN of the Future, Today
Organizations running large, distributed networks are keenly aware of the challenges traditional WANs pose. Even among leading global and national enterprises, the WAN is typically characterized by:
- Antiquated architectures poorly suited to private and hybrid cloud applications—a big problem when 62 percent of companies plan to use hybrid clouds by 2028[1]
- High power consumption and greenhouse emissions, making it hard to meet sustainability targets that 57 percent of enterprises have committed to[2]
- Inefficient manual network operations that take too long, cost too much and still fail to identify most network issues before they impact users[3]
As these challenges compound, enterprises are approaching a point where delaying WAN modernization becomes one of the riskiest choices they can make.
With our Enterprise Routing portfolio, Juniper offers a new kind of network that addresses today’s biggest WAN challenges, while providing a more agile and efficient foundation for tomorrow. Juniper Enterprise Routing delivers:
- Experience-first automation: Juniper routers simplify automation to deliver better experiences for both users and IT. With intent-based automation and embedded active assurance, the network continually verifies that it’s delivering the superior application experience that IT intended and that users expect.
- Sustainability by design: Juniper delivers significant sustainability innovations across our routing portfolio. We can help enterprises meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments, while dramatically reducing power consumption and operational expenses.
- Proven performance: Juniper offers one of the industry’s most trusted routing portfolios, delivering best-of-breed performance, reliability, and security at scale for more than 1,300 digital transformation leaders.
Automation Made Simple
Every business running a large-scale WAN would like to automate network operations. Just a small percentage have already done it, largely due to the high costs and complexity of integrating automation tools. Juniper takes a different approach, embedding intent-based automation into the network itself. Our experience-first enterprise routing platforms provide the following benefits:
- Intent-based automation allows IT to program connectivity once and have the network continually monitor and optimize itself to deliver on that intent.
- Embedded active assurance measures quality directly on the data plane, validating that network applications are performing as they should and accelerating incident resolution by 50 percent.
- Automated device lifecycle management reduces the time required for device onboarding and other use cases from hours to minutes.
- Autonomous capacity optimization enables support for higher traffic loads with the same routing infrastructure, reducing TCO by up to 27 percent when compared to no automation technology[7].
Sustainability by Design
Juniper is an industry leader in sustainability, committing to net-zero emissions by 2040. We expect to have an even greater impact through our routing solutions, which use the latest silicon and chassis innovations to deliver efficiencies in large-scale networks worldwide. Using Juniper routing platforms to replace legacy systems, enterprises can achieve:
- Up to 77 percent lower power consumption[4]
- Up to 90 percent improved space efficiency[5]
- Up to 49 percent more efficient silicon[6]
- Up to 70 percent improved capacity utilization[7]
We’re also extending the system life of Juniper routers. This lets enterprises reduce e-waste and continually support new requirements as the business evolves, without the need for rip-and-replace. New Juniper ACX platforms, such as 7509, have an expected lifespan of 12 years—more than double that of traditional routers [4].
Proven Performance
Operators of the world’s largest, most complex networks have long trusted Juniper routers to deliver exceptional throughput, density, and security at scale. Our Enterprise Routing portfolio brings the same proven performance to the enterprise WAN.
With broad choice from Juniper in routing platforms and form factors, enterprises can address any WAN use case—from private WAN backbone and edge locations to data center interconnect, cloud, and internet edge.
Across all locations, Juniper combines high throughput and scale with innovative URL filtering and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection—while continuing improving on power efficiency. We also offer choice in silicon strategy, so enterprises can apply the best silicon for the job. This allows you to optimize for throughput, logical services scale, or a more balanced and economical approach.
Build a Foundation for the Future
You’ll find Juniper routing in the world’s most demanding large-scale networks. In fact, all of Forbes’ top 10 global companies; and more than 80 percent of the world’s top financial institutions, technology companies, global retailers and universities use Juniper routers.
Today, through our ongoing routing innovations, we’re extending Juniper’s experience-first automation, sustainability, and performance further into the enterprise. No matter which use cases you need to support, no matter how your business evolves, we provide an agile, sustainable network foundation for your business transformation.
To learn more about how Juniper Enterprise Routing can help you modernize the WAN to prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, please watch our webinar prepared in cooperation with IDC: Building a WAN for the AI era.
[1] Hewlett Packard Enterprise. From Hybrid Cloud By Accident to Hybrid Cloud By Design.
[2] Deloitte. Deloitte CxO Sustainability Report 2022.
[3] Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks survey of 400 North American companies. November 2019.
[4] ACG Research; the TCO and Environmental Benefits of the Juniper Networks Cloud Metro Solutions
[5] Juniper Power Calculator; Juniper MX10008
[6] Juniper internal test results of Express 4 and Express 5 ASICs
[7] ACG Research 5-Year TCO Estimate; Juniper Paragon Pathfinder
