Mist, Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform: Built With AI and For AI

The Challenge

IT leaders face increasing network complexity, limited resources, and growing security risks. Organizations expect greater value from their networks with the same or lower budgets and limited staff. Managing rising complexity from exponential data growth and the proliferation of network devices and users is a significant challenge. User expectations for exceptional network experiences are also growing, making security critical as bad actors probe for vulnerabilities.

80% of organizations believe the network is more/much more complex than just two years ago.

The Capabilities You Need

80% Decrease in time spent managing the network reported by Port Huron Schools.

3x Faster to configure the data center network reported by Bizway.

A Secure Network Optimized for Performance

The Mist, Juniper's AI-native networking platform, enables networks to evolve by continually getting smarter, more automated, and more capable of leveraging the transformative, proactive power of AI. This approach simplifies IT operations, reduces trouble tickets, lowers OpEx, and optimizes end-user experiences.

Key Benefits:

• Simplicity: Reduce network complexity and streamline operations so operators can focus on more strategic initiatives and innovation.
• Productivity: Automate routine tasks, gain real-time insights into user experiences, and enable proactive, self-healing network operations.
• Reliability at scale: Ensure consistent performance and high availability across all network devices, demanding workloads, and modern enterprise applications.
• Zero Trust security: Protect users, devices, applications, and data wherever they are with built-in security, unparalleled visibility, and simplified policy control applied and enforced at a global scale.

Delivering on the Promise of AI

The Mist platform utilizes a common cloud and the Marvis® AI engine across all networking domains—wireless, wired, SD-WAN, WAN, data center, and security. This end-to-end approach simplifies IT operations, boosts productivity, and optimizes end-user experiences. It represents the industry's most high-performance, adaptive network infrastructures, purpose-built to support mission-critical AI workloads.

Purpose-Built with AI and for AI

Networking is essential for modern life. Juniper's experience-first approach to AI-native networking leverages AI to drive flawless, personalized end-user experiences. This is achieved through four key pillars: the right data, the right infrastructure, the right results, and the right security.

The Right Data

Great AI begins with great data. Juniper captures the right data by asking experience-first questions to ensure consistent user experiences and proactive issue resolution. Using quality data collected over 10 years via rich, relevant, real-time telemetry across purpose-built APs, routers, switches, firewalls, and third-party applications, Mist analyzes and optimizes operations in real time, providing actionable insights.

The Right Infrastructure

Processing massive amounts of data and producing actionable results requires a scalable, sustainable, and secure infrastructure. Mist provides this with proven performance across complex deployments. Its optimized silicon strategy and 100% open API-driven microservices cloud architecture offer agility, scalability, optimal performance, and seamless third-party integration.

The Right Results

IT teams face pressure to ensure reliable connectivity and proactively resolve issues. The Marvis AI engine provides smarter recommendations, faster issue identification, and automated resolutions through continuous development of AI models trained on anomaly detection and event correlation. The Marvis® AI Assistant simplifies operations through its conversational interface and recommended proactive actions.

93% of organizations state that integrated AI and automation solutions meet or exceed their expectations for increased network team productivity.

The Right Security

Juniper helps organizations secure their network with easy-to-automate Zero Trust at scale and end-to-end visibility and control via a unified Mist dashboard, common Junos OS, and a single policy framework. This enables IT operators to monitor traffic patterns, detect anomalies, and enforce consistent security policies across the entire infrastructure.

AI for Network Operations

The Mist platform delivers industry-leading AIOps across all networking domains to simplify operations and deliver exceptional experiences. Marvis AI provides proactive insights and actions, enabling IT teams to spend less time troubleshooting and more time on strategic initiatives. The cloud-native unified platform provides unparalleled visibility and control, drastically simplifying operations and breaking down network silos.

Key Domains:

• WAN routing: Secure, reliable, and scalable routing connectivity.
• Wireless and wired access: High-performance, secure, and scalable connectivity.
• Indoor location services: Accurate, real-time indoor location tracking.
• SD-WAN/NGFW/UZTNA: Secure, reliable, and application-aware connectivity.
• Data center networking: Secure, scalable, automated data center infrastructures.

Networks for AI Workloads

To maximize AI investments, enterprises need robust, specialized networking infrastructure for AI data centers. Juniper's AI data center networking solution leverages scalable, AI-native WAN and AIOps to support AI training, inference, and storage clusters. This solution integrates high-performing routers and switches, simplified management, and Zero Trust security to optimize performance, deliver fast job completion times (JCTs), and maximize GPU utilization.

Multivendor Management for Data Center Networks

Juniper offers multivendor management solutions for data center networks, providing freedom from vendor lock-in. Intent-based networking automates and validates operations for streamlined deployments. Leveraging standards-based Ethernet offers a flexible and cost-effective alternative to proprietary solutions.

Key Features:

• AI fabric (switching/routing): AI-native network fabric integrating automation, AI, and ML.
• Operations and AI optimization: AI, ML, and automation optimize performance and simplify operations.
• Data center interconnect (DCI): High-performance, scalable, and automated data transport.
• Mesh firewall: AI-native threat detection and advanced analytics for enhanced security.
• WAN routing: High-performing routing infrastructure for scalability and performance.

43% of organizations identified network security as their top connectivity-related challenge.

Comprehensive Security, Visibility, and Control

As cyberattacks grow more sophisticated, network security must evolve. The Mist platform integrates networking and security functions, enabling Zero Trust security via unified management, a common Junos OS, and a single policy framework. Consolidating security, networking, and AIOps under a single UI allows for coordinated threat protection and consistent policy enforcement across all domains.

Core Capabilities

"With Mist, the City of Parkland doesn't stress about its network."

"eMag delivers seamless shopping experiences to millions of users with Juniper's automated data center networking."

Our Advantage

Juniper stands out by taking an experience-first approach to networking. The Mist platform was designed with AI and for AI over 10 years ago to simplify operations, boost productivity, and provide seamless, secure, and reliable connectivity.

The NOW Way to Network

Juniper Networks believes connectivity is not the same as a great connection. Mist™, Juniper's Al-native networking platform, leverages AI to deliver exceptional, highly secure, and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. More information can be found at Juniper Networks (juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Dive Deeper into the Platform

The Mist platform: https://www.juniper.net/us/en/ai-native-networking-platform.html

Notes and References

• 2024 ETR Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS)
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• IDC's Future of Connectedness Survey (06/23)

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