AI and edge routing: a natural and perfect combination

Challenges at the WAN edge

In today's digital landscape, organizations strive to stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly competitive environment, and in the process, they face many challenges. Organizations that view WAN as a critical success factor are looking to modernize.

They need the WAN edge to provide the following capabilities:
Easily bring edge devices online;
Prioritization of business-critical applications;
Guaranteed end-user performance;
Fast and agile handling of evolving business requirements and changing traffic patterns;
Support for moving workloads from public to private clouds;
Reliable interconnect capable of supporting high traffic volumes, including new AI workloads;
Simplified operations and reduced mean time to repair (MTTR);

Organizations tend to put off important WAN changes and upgrades because maintaining legacy routing infrastructure updates can be tricky. When changes are made, most basic configuration errors are often caused by avoidable human error. All of this creates unnecessary risk and costs the organization money if the WAN goes down, performs poorly, or becomes insecure.

As a cloud-delivered service, Juniper Networks' new Route Assurance product simplifies operations and provides the most efficient way to monitor, analyze, and quickly troubleshoot problems across multiple branch offices, WAN edges, and peering locations. marvis VNA's Routing Extension enhances WAN Ops with faster document searches, enabling network operations staff to query network configurations and ask detailed product questions. product questions.

More specifically, our Edge Routing portfolio provides the ability to easily bring MX304, MX204 and ACX7024 devices online
Router insights in the Mist dashboard, such as BGP, service levels and queues
Critical events and recommended proactive actions
Artificial Intelligence Native Service Level Expectations (SLEs) for monitoring device operational conditions

As we work on the native development of AI, these capabilities in turn deliver the following key benefits to Juniper Networks' customers and partners:
Proactively detect and fix routing issues before they affect users;
Simplifying and automating operations and maintenance tasks to increase productivity;
Reducing MTTR through root cause analysis and practical insights;
One AI and cloud-native platform for all WAN edge use cases (SD-WAN, SASE, and edge routing), minimizing OpEx and simplifying O&M for all WAN environments in the distributed enterprise;
The same Mist AI and cloud platform will also be used for wired and wireless access, delivering the industry's only AI-native network platform that provides an end-to-end guaranteed experience for campuses and branch offices.

Additionally, Juniper's edge routing solutions are a key enabler in achieving customers' sustainability goals. Juniper routers consume 77 percent less power, are 64 percent more space-efficient and have a longer lifespan (up to 12 years) than their competitors, minimizing e-waste. In some cases, Mist AI has proven to eliminate up to 85 percent of visits for network troubleshooting in remote areas, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the street - every little bit helps!