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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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Session Smart Router
Our software-defined router provides a flexible, application-aware network fabric that meets stringent enterprise performance, security, and availability requirements. Its NGFW features enable selective enforcement of attack detection and prevention techniques on network traffic.
Juniper WAN Assurance
Juniper® WAN Assurance simplifies operations, improves visibility into end user experiences, and shortens SD-WAN mean time to repair.
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 Marvis AI automates operations and speeds up troubleshooting.
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With special offers, flexible buying options, design guides, and deployment services, Juniper’s Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration helps you maximize ROI and harness The NOW Way to Network—faster, smarter, and risk-free.
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Managed SD-WAN FAQs
What is Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN solution?
Juniper's managed AI-native SD-WAN solution empowers service providers to deliver sophisticated, turnkey networking experiences to enterprises seeking the competitive advantages of SD-WAN without expanding their IT footprint. We've architected this platform specifically for providers looking to transform connectivity challenges into revenue opportunities while offering their customers operational simplicity and technological excellence.
Why should a service provider choose Juniper AI-native SD-WAN to deliver a managed SD-WAN solution to their end customers?
There are various reasons service providers should choose Juniper AI-native 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 (up to 85% savings)
- Differentiation with industry’s first and only AI-native SD-WAN
- "Land and Expand" with the AI-Native campus and branch portfolio
What are the enterprise benefits of Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN solution?
Juniper’s managed AI-native 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 AI-native SD-WAN solution?
Enterprises of all sizes and in all industries benefit from Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN solution, including those in retail, healthcare, government, manufacturing, hospitality, finance, 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 AI-native SD-WAN solution support?
Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN solution provides the benefits of AIOps for a distributed enterprise. This is a key facet of Juniper’s AI-native 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-native 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 Juniper’s managed AI-native 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 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 AI-native SD-WAN solution integrates with Juniper Secure Edge and third-party security providers to build complete SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architectures and meet businesses wherever they are in their security journey.
What products comprise a managed AI-native SD-WAN solution?
The managed SD-WAN solution includes Juniper Session Smart Router, Juniper WAN Assurance, Marvis AI with the MSP Dashboard, and Marvis® AI Assistant.
Is Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN solution right for my organization?
Juniper’s managed AI-native 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-native SD-WAN for their managed SD-WAN solution?
Providers of all sizes, including internet service providers (ISPs), communication service providers (CSPs), and/or managed service providers (MSPs), looking to modernize their network offerings and improve customer experience should consider Juniper AI-native SD-WAN for their managed SD-WAN solution.
What are the benefits of Juniper’s managed AI-native SD-WAN?
The benefits of Juniper’s managed AI-native 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