Juniper Networks' AI-Driven Enterprise Product Family Gets a New Upgrade, Making Campus Fabric Network Management and Wired/Wireless Troubleshooting Easier

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leading provider of secure, AI-driven networking solutions, recently announced new capabilities for its AI-powered enterprise product family. These enhancements enable customers to scale and rapidly deploy wired and wireless campus network services while delivering greater insights and automation to network operators. Enhancements to the Juniper Mist cloud and AI engine include EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric network management and proactive issue remediation through Marvis Actions. Leveraging Juniper's unique automation, AIOps, and cloud capabilities, these advancements help customers simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and deliver agility and scalability. 

Jeff Aaron, Vice President of Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks, stated: "Juniper Networks is committed to building an experience-first network where our enterprise solutions deliver the best possible experience from client to cloud for end users and operators through proactive automation, guaranteed user experience, agile cloud services, and connected security. In campus and branch networks, this means leveraging Mist AI and cloud-driven AIOps to maximize user productivity and efficiency while minimizing IT costs through simplified operations and actionable insights. Now, by enhancing Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, Wireless Assurance, and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) cloud services, we are accelerating progress in these areas and further widening the gap with competitors by making it easier for customers to deploy, operate, and troubleshoot campus networks at scale." 

The latest features of Juniper Networks' AI-driven enterprise product family include:

Achieving AI-Driven Campus Fabric Network Management with Juniper Networks Mist Cloud: Campus networks typically rely on proprietary technologies and complex L2/L3 architectures that fail to meet the demands of today's massive mobile user and IoT device volumes. While EVPN-VXLAN technology offers significant advantages over traditional fabric network management approaches, its deployment and management remain highly complex. After implementing EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric network management through Juniper Mist Wired Assurance cloud services, users achieve simplified operations across wired, wireless, and WAN networks via a unified cloud and AIOps engine.

Juniper Networks' EVPN-VXLAN fabric network utilizes the same Juniper platform (Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant) used to manage wired access within the campus, delivering unparalleled automation, insights, and troubleshooting capabilities to IT administrators. This not only provides a unified operational framework for deploying, configuring, and managing all wired access deployments but also leverages a single AI-driven support model. Through autonomous operations and predictive measures, issues are resolved before they escalate. The Juniper Networks Mist Cloud enables administrators to seamlessly select topologies, define networks of interest, identify required physical connections, and apply the correct underlying policies. Furthermore, whether in LAN, WLAN, or WAN environments, customers of Juniper Networks Mist solutions operate using a single mode—a key differentiator in Juniper's client-to-cloud approach.

New Marvis Actions deliver deeper insights for faster problem resolution: Leveraging insights from the Mist AI engine—such as root causes of issues—Marvis Actions provide actionable recommendations to IT administrators through a single, simplified dashboard. This is the first—and in many cases, the only—place customers need to look to monitor and manage the health of their Juniper Networks Mist network, delivering perfect simplicity, intelligence, and convenience across wired, wireless, and software-defined WAN networks.
Since the launch of the Marvis Virtual Network Assistant in 2018, Juniper Networks has continuously expanded capabilities to help customers resolve common issues, including misconfigured VLANs, offline devices, non-compliant software, DHCP/802.1x/PSK failures, and loops. Now, with the support of new Marvis Virtual Network Assistant features, customers can detect and resolve a broader range of wired, wireless, and WAN issues, such as frequently failing wired/wireless clients, cable breaks, access point coverage blind spots, WAN link failures, and weak RF capabilities.

Juniper Networks will continue to pursue its vision of “Enterprise-First Networking,” driving continuous product innovation to deliver tangible support for global customers and partners across numerous vertical markets. In the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, Juniper Networks was positioned as a Leader, achieving the highest execution score within the Leaders quadrant. Additionally, Juniper Networks was recognized as a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services.