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AI-Driven SD-WAN
AI-Native reliability, security, and insight
Juniper SD-WAN, driven by Juniper Mist AI™, enables exceptional operator and end user network experiences. Powered by Juniper Session Smart™ Routing and Juniper Mist WAN Assurance, it streamlines network operations, enhances productivity, and ensures superior network performance—all while protecting your data and applications.
How Juniper can help
Juniper's SD-WAN solution sets a new standard for secure, resilient connectivity tailored for today’s cloud-focused enterprises. Leveraging AI-Native insights and automation, this solution simplifies deployment while drastically cutting down troubleshooting time, enhancing operational efficiency across the board. With its innovative, tunnel-free architecture and industry-leading AIOps, Juniper SD-WAN empowers businesses with unprecedented scalability, cost savings, and a significantly more streamlined networking infrastructure that’s perfectly aligned with the demands of today’s digital landscape.
Scale seamlessly
Juniper's microservices cloud solution, Mist AI, ensures rapid deployment through Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and simple templates that offer proven performance. It scales dynamically to align with your dynamic needs, while offering seamless integration via 100% open APIs with platforms like Zoom, Teams, and ServiceNow.
Enhance control and cut costs
Juniper's Session Smart technology offers unparalleled network visibility and control, providing insights into each session flow while eliminating the inefficiencies and overhead of traditional tunnel-based traffic management. The cutting-edge tunnel-free design enhances bandwidth efficiency, reduces network congestion, and eliminates scaling limitations.
Protect your network
Juniper’s AI-Native Zero Trust architecture seamlessly integrates SSE connectors to any SSE while employing Adaptive Encryption to protect data and prevent double encryption scenarios. Our next-generation firewall (NGFW) stands as the industry's bulwark against threats, utilizing AI to preemptively identify and neutralize exploits and malware, safeguarding your operations from potential disruptions.
The products
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Session Smart Router
Our software-defined router provides a flexible, application-aware network fabric that meets stringent enterprise performance, security, and availability requirements. Its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) features enable selective enforcement of attack detection and prevention techniques on network traffic.
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Juniper WAN Assurance
Juniper® WAN Assurance simplifies operations, improves visibility into end user experiences, and shortens SD-WAN mean time to repair.
PRODUCT FAMILY
Protect your network edge, data center, and cloud applications with Juniper’s next-generation physical, virtual, and containerized firewalls. They’re all managed via Juniper Security Director Cloud for a unified management experience and consistent security policy enforcement.
PRODUCT FAMILY
Deploy virtual network functions (VNFs), x86 applications, and WAN connectivity, all on this flexible universal CPE platform that provides secure SD-WAN and service delivery.
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Managed SD-WAN
Juniper SD-WAN is an integral part of a unique, secure client-to-cloud networking approach designed to provide the best operational experience for operators, as well as the best network and application experience for enterprise customers. It leverages AI and the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture for proactive insights and automation that take the complexity out of network operations and support.
Dive deeperManaged Services
With Juniper’s comprehensive set of industry-leading, AI-driven solutions, you can deliver managed services differentiated by experience for you and your enterprise customers. Using Mist AI and the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture, our solutions arm your NetOps team with proactive insights and automation for the best Day 0 through Day 2 operations experience.
ExploreSecurity
Make your network threat-aware. Juniper’s security portfolio safeguards users, data, and infrastructure by extending security to every point of connection—from client to cloud—across the entire network.
Learn moreAI-native SD-Branch
Juniper AI-native SD-Branch simplifies branch-office communications with AI-native SD-WAN, switching, Wi-Fi, and security delivered from the Juniper Mist Cloud. Tunnel-free Session Smart™ Routing accelerates application performance for faster response times while Mist AI automates operations and speeds troubleshooting.
Dive deeperServices for campus and branch
Achieve simplicity and reliability at scale across your wired, wireless, and SD-WAN environments with AI-native operations and support from Juniper services for a comprehensive, proactive approach across the full network lifecycle.
Explore servicesCUSTOMER SUCCESS
Seagate to Leverage Juniper Networks' AI-Native Enterprise Solutions
Seagate Technology® has selected Juniper’s full stack AI-native enterprise portfolio to support its evolving business needs. The Juniper solution, driven by Marvis AI and the cloud, offers Seagate proactive automation and unique client-to-cloud insight, as well as optimized performance and cost savings in key areas of their IT infrastructure.
Seagate, a world leader in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, has multiple sites in 18 countries that share a vast amount of data. As a way of decreasing network costs and optimizing the performance of key applications between these locations, Seagate is moving from a traditional MPLS network to Juniper’s AI-native SD-WAN solution. Juniper’s unique tunnel-free SD-WAN architecture can help reduce Seagate’s telco and hosting costs, which is ideal for high bandwidth activities like data transfers.
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AI-driven SD-WAN FAQs
What is AI-driven SD-WAN?
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN is a tunnel-free, application-aware, and Zero Trust secure solution for reliable and secure WAN connectivity.
What products comprise the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN solution?
The Juniper Session Smart Router, Mist AI, and Juniper Mist WAN Assurance make up the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN Solution.
What are the benefits of Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN?
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN improves end user and operator experiences by simplifying operations and improving application performance. Inherent Zero Trust policies and a tunnel-free architecture enable strong network security without sacrificing performance. AI-driven SD-WAN also collects rich telemetry on network traffic, which—when combined with Mist AI—provides actionable insights into user-experience and possible network issues.
What are the benefits of tunnel-free SD-WAN?
Tunnel-free SD-WAN offers many benefits, including:
- User experience guarantees, along with application performance assurances: Tunnel-free SD-WAN does not add additional overhead to traffic, enabling improved application performance and costs savings, while WAN Assurance further enables better user experiences
- Huge scale improvements: Sessions tying an application to a user are addressed individually for as long as the session is open
- Inherent Zero Trust security: This is achieved with a deny-by-default approach to all new traffic accessing the network
How does tunnel-free SD-WAN secure traffic?
In a tunnel-free, session-intelligent WAN, traffic is not allowed on the network unless it meets the requirements (users, applications, groups, etc.) defined by the session. This deny-by-default approach ensures a Zero Trust network.
What are the limitations of tunneling protocols like IPsec?
Tunneling protocols like IPsec add about 30% additional bandwidth per packet sent, which reduces available network capacity and slows application performance. (We refer to this wasted overhead as badput.)
Tunneled architectures limit scaling and are inflexible in terms of their topology requirements. They can be hub and spoke, but the hub will slow down real-time traffic. Attempting a point-to-point architecture is possible but becomes very unwieldy and difficult to maintain. A session-based architecture is much more flexible and can optimize for both real-time and asynchronous traffic.
What are the scaling differences between tunneled SD-WANs and session-intelligent, tunnel-free SD-WANs?
The difference is huge orders of magnitude. Tunneled WANs can often scale to thousands of sessions, while a session-intelligent WAN can scale to millions of sessions. This is because sessions are not kept alive after the user-application transaction is complete. Tunnels continue to exist even when they are not being used.
On top of that, many tunneled SD-WANs are limited to the number of connections they can maintain. With tunnel-free, that limitation disappears.
What are the main security features in Juniper’s SD-WAN solution?
Juniper’s tunnel-free AI-driven SD-WAN is inherently Zero Trust secure with deny-by-default access policies. The Session Smart Router has built-in next-generation firewall (NGFW) functionality. It is also FIPS 140-2 certified and PCI and HIPAA compliant. For advanced network security, the Juniper SD-WAN solution integrates with Juniper Secure Edge and any third-party security providers to support a complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.
What are the deployment options for Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN?
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN is powered by the Session Smart Router, which is software-based and deployable on Juniper SSR Series Routers, white-box customer premises equipment, data center network servers, and the cloud. Session Smart Routers can be managed on premises or in the cloud by the Session Smart Conductor or via the Juniper Mist Cloud.
Who should use the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN?
Small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, telecommunications providers, and managed service providers looking to modernize their network and improve network user experiences should all consider Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN.
What are the use cases for Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN?
Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN supports the following use cases:
- Providing optimized experiences for users in all network domains
- Reducing operational costs, especially to and from the cloud
- Accelerating cloud migration initiatives
- Expediting and simplifying WAN deployments and management operations
Where can I get help with the Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN?
For information regarding AI-driven SD-WAN deployment services, read the AI-driven SD-WAN Deployment Services datasheet. For help with the Session Smart Router, view our Session Smart Router documentation, take a training course, or join our SD-WAN Community.
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