Mist AI ensures superior WAN routing performance at scale through proactive troubleshooting, closed-loop remediation and continuous optimisation
Juniper Networks, the leader in secure AI-native networking, recently announced a new round of innovations to its routing portfolio to accelerate deployment and enhance large-scale routing troubleshooting capabilities. Juniper's WAN routing solutions have been further enhanced by the incorporation of Juniper Mist AI, the industry's leading AI-native operations platform, which provides end-to-end route observation capabilities and control while increasing automation and insight.
The company also announced the new Juniper Networks® ACX7020 Access Edge Router, a new solution that extends these automated capabilities to metro networks and customers' locally deployed environments. With Juniper's enhanced AI-native routing portfolio, enterprises, clouds and service providers can unlock the potential of their WAN investments, deliver outstanding performance and reliability, and minimise their carbon footprint to easily meet the demands of the AI era.
The continued rapid growth of network traffic in service provider and enterprise WANs, coupled with the rise of new and unpredictable traffic patterns such as generative AI (GenAI) workloads, has not only intensified the need for reliable, high-performance WAN connectivity, but has also increased the complexity of operations and maintenance. Juniper Networks' rich portfolio of AI-native routing products addresses this challenge with advanced automation technologies that extend coverage to the largest enterprise, cloud, and service provider networks.
WAN Automation Drives Superior Experiences at Scale
The Juniper Networks Paragon portfolio makes WANs more intuitive and easier to use, from day 0 to day 2 and beyond. This portfolio not only reduces deployment time, but also ensures a consistently superior experience for both network operations teams and end users.
As a key solution in Juniper's AI Native Networking Platform, Paragon is now enhanced with the following capabilities:
1. AI Native Routing Observation Capability
Mist AI now provides full end-to-end routing visibility and control with AI Operations (AIOps). This capability helps detect complex routing issues and anomalies and proactively provides recommendations for action. By introducing a new level of insight and automation for network operations staff, Mist AI has been proven to reduce ongoing expenses by up to 85 per cent in some cases.
2. Proactive Troubleshooting with the LLM Connector
In addition to leveraging Juniper's industry-leading Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA, driven by Mist AI.), the LLM Connector gives customers the option to leverage their own Large Language Model (LLM) deployments for advanced conversational interactions. This enables straightforward troubleshooting of even the most complex routing issues, further accelerating the resolution of problems.
3. Intent-Based Network Optimisation
Juniper Networks now supports fully intent-driven traffic engineering policies, a capability that simplifies route optimisation to meet the performance requirements of network applications. This capability is made possible by Juniper's expertise gained from decades of deployments of complex WAN solutions involving terabytes of traffic and thousands of optimisations per month.
Delivering High Performance and Sustainability with Best-in-Class Routing Platforms
Juniper Networks' comprehensive, best-in-class router portfolio delivers superior capacity, agility and O&M consistency, as well as the end-to-end automation technology required for service-aware networks to support today's hyper-connected world.
Juniper's AI Native Routing solution has now been enhanced with the following new capabilities:
Reduce energy consumption with added energy-efficient automation use cases: Juniper Networks leverages port, port group, and line card hibernation capabilities in the routing platform to be able to scan for and identify modules that do not need to support the current traffic demand, regardless of volume, and shut them down.
Extend WAN coverage into customers' local deployment environments with the ACX7020 Access Edge Router: The ACX7020 is an I-Temp rated access router that can be deployed in both indoor and outdoor environments. This router's small form factor makes it ideal for installation in locations where space is limited. With this router, network operators can connect endpoints directly to the WAN to deliver superior performance and plug-and-play support for AI-native routing.