Accelerate Enterprise Transformation with Juniper AI-Native Networking and Google's Cloud WAN

Introduction

Juniper and Google Cloud have partnered to deliver an AI-native, cloud-first networking solution that simplifies complexity and drives better outcomes. By unifying Juniper's Mist platform with Google's Cloud WAN, enterprises gain automation, real-time visibility, and secure connectivity across campus, branch, and multi-cloud environments. This integrated approach reduces operational overhead, accelerates troubleshooting, and improves user experiences, empowering IT teams to transform networks from a cost center into a strategic business enabler.

The Challenge and Opportunity

Legacy networks, often fragmented and built with disparate technologies, create complexity, costs, and blind spots. Traditional systems lack the visibility and assurance needed for modern business outcomes. Juniper's AI-native networking platform and Google Cloud WAN address this by simplifying operations, automating actions, and delivering end-to-end connectivity, visibility, and assurance, driving better experiences, security, and business agility.

Capabilities for Modern Enterprises

This solution offers self-driving networking for modern enterprises, breaking free from complexity with AI-native, cloud-first networking that boosts efficiency and user experience. Key capabilities include:

AI-native networking: Simplifies operations and reduces manual tasks with self-driving actions that resolve issues before users notice.
End-to-end visibility and assurance: Provides real-time insights into user experience and app performance across campus, branch, and cloud environments.
Cloud-optimized connectivity and security: Ensures secure, seamless access and performance by integrating Google's Cloud WAN with Juniper's AI-native campus and branch solutions.

Core Features and Capabilities

AI-native networking: Simplified Day 0/1/2 operations, automating routine tasks, reducing manual errors, and increasing efficiency.
Real-time performance visibility: Enhanced troubleshooting and insights, instantly pinpointing and resolving network issues to ensure optimal performance.
Unified management: Simplified network management, allowing management, monitoring, and configuration of the entire network from a single dashboard.
Cloud-native integration: Achieves agility and architectural simplification with agile microservices, open APIs, and seamless WAN connectivity for secure, easy cloud management.
Cost optimization: Delivers reduced operational and infrastructure costs by lowering TCO through reduced reliance on MPLS, colocation, and optimized network management.
End-to-end Zero Trust: Provides secure, scalable network access, protecting campus and branch environments with dynamic policies, device awareness, and threat detection.

Juniper Solutions Overview

Juniper's AI-native networking platform, powered by Marvis AI, delivers automation, insights, and self-driving actions for campus and branch environments. The Marvis AI Assistant proactively identifies and resolves network issues, featuring a conversational interface and Marvis Minis for proactive connection simulation.

Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN: Offers a modern, cloud-native approach to managing wide area networks, emphasizing user experience, operational simplicity, and proactive issue resolution.
Juniper Wireless Access: Combines cloud-managed access points with Mist Wi-Fi Assurance for reliable, AI-driven wireless experiences, including indoor location services.
Juniper Wired Access: Integrates cloud-native EX and QFX Series Switches with Mist Wired Assurance for secure, scalable, and AI-native network operations, supporting Zero Touch Provisioning.
Juniper Access Assurance: Utilizes AI and identity-based policies for secure user and device access, enabling Zero Trust, streamlining NAC operations, and improving security posture.

Juniper Premium Analytics provides network and security visibility with business intelligence to drive digital transformation, offering end-to-end visibility and actionable insights.

Google Cloud WAN Overview

Google's Cloud WAN unifies enterprise, cloud, and branch connectivity into a single, high-performance global network. It simplifies operations, reduces costs, and boosts agility with integrated partner services, built-in security, and unmatched global resilience, replacing complex legacy WANs with a scalable, cloud-native solution.

Google Cloud WAN: A fully managed global solution unifying enterprise backbones and SD-WANs, delivering superior scalability, reliability, and low-latency connectivity, with up to 40% lower TCO and 40% better performance compared to traditional WANs.
Cross-cloud network: Leverages capabilities like Cross-Site Interconnect and NCC Gateway SSE integration to replace multiple WAN/MPLS solutions with a single global WAN connecting workloads, offices, data centers, and users.
Global private network: Features two million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables, and availability in over 200 countries and territories.
Best of breed network and security services: Integrates SD-WAN, SASE, DDI, and more for a cloud-native experience, simplifying architecture, optimizing performance, and ensuring consistent security.
Global resilience: Offers path diversity with subsea cables, massive DDoS protection, extensive ISP/SaaS peering, and unique failure rerouting for resilience against network disruptions.

Solution Architecture

The Juniper AI-native networking for Google WAN Cloud solution architecture integrates various components. It shows Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting AI-Native Cloud Services, connecting via Cross-Cloud Interconnect to Juniper's Mist APs and EX switches at HQ and Branch locations. It also depicts connections to AWS/Azure, Internet/SaaS, and other third-party services. The architecture highlights the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN backend, Mist AI Assistant, Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, and Juniper Access Assurance components, along with EX switches at HQ, Branch, and DC sites, and Mist APs at Branch and DC sites.

Partnership Advantage

Juniper Networks focuses on delivering exceptional, highly secure, and sustainable user experiences through its AI-native networking platform. Google Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools, built on planet-scale infrastructure and AI-powered applications, enabling organizations to transform. Customers worldwide rely on Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

Next Steps

Customers can procure Juniper AI-native networking products on the Google Cloud Marketplace. For more information on the Juniper AI-native networking and Google Cloud WAN solution, contact your Google or Juniper representative, or visit the Google Cloud Marketplace (https://cloud.google.com/contact) or www.juniper.net.

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