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Managed AI-Driven SD-WAN
Deliver better network efficiency and security with AIOps
As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), opting for Juniper's managed AI-driven SD-WAN solution allows you to stand out in a competitive market. Now you can ensure high network uptime with Session Smart™ Routers and leverage Mist AI™ to expedite issue resolution and automate complex processes. Plus, the advanced AI capabilities offer you actionable insights for proactive network management, enhancing customer SLAs and reducing operational costs. By making it easier for you to maintain customer satisfaction and reduce the need for manual interventions, your team can manage more customers with fewer resources.
How Juniper can help
As you know, MSPs face a wide variety of challenges. Juniper’s AI-driven SD-WAN allows you to not only differentiate your offering but broaden your total addressable market as well. With built-in AIOps, you can resolve service issues faster and deliver the premium experiences customers expect.
Simplify operations
Arm your business with the most sophisticated AIOps in the SD-WAN industry. Get real-time insights into user experiences and ensure optimal WAN performance through immediate root cause discovery, event correlation, and automated troubleshooting. This results in a streamlined network management process, enabling proactive optimization and a significant reduction in manual intervention.
Comprehensive security
Deploy SD-WAN services that meet your customers’ most stringent security and performance expectations with Zero Trust, deny-by-default access control, integrated Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), threat prevention, and advanced encryption capabilities—all managed through a single AI-Native operations platform for enhanced visibility and control.
Expand your service catalog
Redefine the WAN edge and seamlessly transition into offering SD-Branch services, allowing for incremental and nondisruptive delivery of new capabilities. This strategic expansion not only improves customer engagement by providing tailored and advanced network solutions but also opens up opportunities for you to penetrate new markets and generate additional streams of recurring revenue, further solidifying your competitive position and business growth.
Expand your reputation
Utilize advanced AI algorithms and machine learning to predict and prevent issues before they impact your customers’ networks, reducing the frequency and severity of problems that require vendor support. This technological sophistication, combined with Juniper's established track record of reliable performance and customer-centric support, ensures that you can confidently sell and support your SD-WAN solutions. Gain the comfort of knowing you have the backing of a vendor committed to assisting with any complex deployments or challenges that may arise.
Products and services
Product
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.
Product
Juniper WAN Assurance
Juniper® WAN Assurance simplifies operations, improves visibility into end user experiences, and shortens SD-WAN mean time to repair.
SERVICES
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.
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AI-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 deeperCUSTOMER SUCCESS
Managed Services Provider Granite Projects Rapid Growth of AI-Native SD-WAN
Granite Telecommunications turned legacy landlines into a $1.7 billion business. Early success came from helping customers consolidate their phone services with one point of contact and one invoice for all their office locations, a space neglected by the big telcos. Over the last two decades, Granite has distinguished itself with a passion for customer service.
Granite is a one-stop shop for communication services for 6,000 businesses and government customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Juniper’s SD-WAN solution and Session Smart Router are foundational technologies in its next-generation managed SD-WAN service.
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Managed SD-WAN FAQs
What is Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution?
Juniper’s managed AI-driven SD-WAN solution is a vehicle for service providers to create an SD-WAN-managed service for their enterprise customers who require the benefit of a turnkey SD-WAN without the IT overhead.
Why should a service provider choose Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN to deliver a managed SD-WAN solution to their end customers?
There are various reasons service providers should choose Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN to deliver a managed SD-WAN solution to their end customers, including:
- Rapid customer deployments and easy scalability
- Simplified operations and management
- Better total cost of ownership (TCO) (up to 85% savings)
- Differentiation with industry’s first and only AI-driven SD-WAN
What are the enterprise benefits of Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution?
Juniper’s managed AI-driven SD-WAN transforms managed WAN services with AIOps, providing WAN Assurance to customers of all sizes. WAN Assurance maximizes uptime by meeting Service Level Experiences (SLEs) for all users. The ability to provide insights and to take actions with AI capabilities—such as deep learning and natural language processing—is unique in the industry.
Who should use Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution?
Enterprises of all sizes and in all industries benefit from Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution, including those in retail, healthcare, government, manufacturing, hospitality, oil and gas, and more. Many Juniper SD-WAN deployments are delivered via managed service offerings, which provide an AI-Native campus and branch solution without the overhead of self-managing the solution.
What use cases does Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution support?
Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution provides the benefits of AIOps (AI for IT operations) for a distributed enterprise. This is a key facet of Juniper’s SD-Branch, which includes Wired Assurance, Wi-Fi Assurance, Access-Assurance, WAN Assurance, and security.
In addition to delivering a robust SD-WAN to end customers, a managed SD-WAN based on Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN can help customers achieve enhanced internet and SaaS performance, secure IaaS connectivity with lower bandwidth costs, VoIP, multicloud, hybrid cloud, data center interconnect (DCI), Internet of Things (IoT), a managed router solution, and more.
What security features does a Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution have?
Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution is inherently Zero-Trust secure with deny-by-default access policies. The Session Smart Router (SSR) has built-in Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) functionality, such as intrusion detection and prevention (IDP/IPS) and URL filtering. It is also FIPS 140-2 certified and PCI and HIPAA compliant. For advanced network security functionality, Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution integrates with Juniper Secure Edge and third-party security providers to build SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architectures and meet businesses wherever they are in their security journey.
What products comprise a managed SD-WAN solution?
The Managed SD-WAN solution includes Juniper Session Smart Router, Mist AI with the MSP Dashboard, and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant.
Is Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution right for my organization?
Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution provides service providers with considerable TCO savings and enriches IT operator experiences with insight, automation, and action for faster response time. To find out if Juniper’s managed SD-WAN solution is right for your organization, download ACG Research’s TCO comparison report.
Who should consider Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN for their managed SD-WAN solution?
Providers of all sizes including internet (ISP), communication (CSP), and/or managed service providers (MSP) looking to modernize their network offerings and improve customer experience should consider Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN for their managed SD-WAN solution.
What are the benefits of Juniper’s managed AI-driven SD-WAN?
The benefits of Juniper’s managed AI-driven SD-WAN include:
- Providing optimized experiences for users in all network domains
- Reducing operational costs, especially to and from the cloud
- Accelerating cloud migration initiatives
- New monthly recurring revenue (MRR) opportunities for service providers
- Management tool consolidation
- Faster response and support times
- Simplified upgrades
- Enhanced security with Zero Trust
AI-Native Networking Platform
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, Nauman Raja, 30 September 2024
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