Multivendor, Intent-Based Networking with Juniper Apstra Solution Brief

Automating the data center network

Network automation solutions tend to be complex, proprietary, and bad at adapting to evolving technologies and business needs. This hinders consistent and reliable operations over time, resulting in slow time to market, poor customer experience, and costly downtime.

320%
ROI

<6 months
payback
(on average)

Juniper Apstra is a data center fabric management solution that enables reliable and consistent operations for Day 0 through Day 2+, scales for innovation, and embraces AI—no matter your vendor mix.

• Reliable Day 0 through Day 2+ operations

Apstra provides a single management platform from which network operators can design, deploy, and operate data center networks.

• Multivendor support for strategic flexibility

Apstra provides vendor-agnostic, intent-based networking that supports a range of hardware and software vendors, including open standards-based offerings.

• Speed through reliability

Apstra’s blueprints-based prescriptive approach accelerates time to deployment reliably and consistently and reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Juniper Apstra software automates and validates the design, deployment, and operation of data center networks from Day 0 through Day 2+. Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of AI-Native, cloud-based applications for AI operations (AIOps), works with Apstra’s intent-based networking to expand data center assurance solutions from network assurance to application assurance, and deliver an unbeatable data center operations experience.

Apstra’s intent-based data center network automation increases application reliability, simplifies deployment and operations, and dramatically reduces costs for enterprises, cloud service providers, and telco data centers.

• Intent-based networking design and operations
  Automate network deployment and operations from Day 0 through Day 2+ with a complete, end-to-end solution for any vendor, any topology, and any data center.
• Life cycle management
  Remove the silos between network designers and operators and enable your IT team to plan, design, deploy, and operate the entire network in a single management platform.
• Complete multivendor network visibility
  Gain deep visibility into the health and performance of multivendor devices and application flows traversing the network for performance monitoring, capacity planning, cost control, and security enhancement.
• Advanced telemetry
  Proactively monitor the data center network in real time with Apstra’s intent-based analytics to ensure alignment with intent, enhance performance and security, and troubleshoot issues.

Track all intent and context-rich operational network state information in a single source of truth (SSOT) database.

Automatically detect and resolve policy overlaps and drifts based on user settings.

Revert back to a previous network state in only a few clicks.

Because mistakes happen.

Enhance performance, manage costs, and ensure security and compliance with robust traffic and network flow data.

Design and deploy a network based on extensively tested designs to ensure quality and reliability.

Move from network assurance to application assurance with cloud-based, AI-Native applications designed to address a range of data center operations challenges. Learn more here.

Integrate multiple data centers into a unified private cloud with Aptra automated DCI with seamless virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunnel stitching.

Enhance interoperability and workflows by integrating with HashiCorp^® Terraform^®, Ansible, and others.

Virtual-Q uses Apstra to seamlessly manage and automate their data center

Vodafone uses Apstra to ensure reliable multivendor operations

Apstra is part of Juniper’s data center solution—the fastest and most flexible way to deploy high performing networks and the simplest to operate with limited IT.

Juniper Networks believes that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver exceptional, highly secure, and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.

To learn more about Juniper Apstra, visit our website at https://www.juniper.net/gb/en/products/network-automation/apstra.html

For technical data sheets, guides and documentation, visit https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/us/en/apstra/