

Juniper Networks Inc. announced enhancements this week to its AI-Native Networking Platform, aimed at adding value to its cloud-hosted products.
These products use Mist AI to optimize user experiences and simplify operations, as well as network assistant Marvis. The new features detect and fix network, application and security issues, which enables customers to anticipate user needs. The company says this approach can lower operational costs by up to 85%.
Over the past two years, I have seen a significant shift in information technology leadership priorities. Coming out of the pandemic, chief information officers were focused on growth, remote work and customer experience initiatives. Today, security and cost-cutting trump all other priorities by a country mile, and Juniper’s ability to slash operational costs is the right use for AI today.
In a briefing ahead of the announcement, Jeff Aaron, Juniper’s group vice president of product marketing, told me that the company was launching Marvis Minis for wired, new RF spectrum analysis and predictive application assurance for wireless, plus simplified onboarding and eduroam, a Wi-Fi roaming service for educators and researchers, for NAC.
“We launched Marvis Minis in January for wireless, which now includes wired,” he said. “We’ve also added dynamic packet capture for wired, which was another unique feature we had for wireless for a while. We’ve expanded some of the Marvis actions and SLEs into wired. And we’re now adding RF spectrum capture to our troubleshooting capabilities.”
Here are the tey elements of the recent announcement:
Aaron summed up the announcement and Juniper’s overall AI strategy. “In January, we put a stake in the ground,” he said. “We have AI for networking, and we have networking for AI that spans all our domains. We’re the only ones with an actual platform: common cloud, common AI.”
The announcement in January that HPE is acquiring Juniper hasn’t slowed the Juniper team down. Post-acquisition news, I’ve talked to customers and channel partners who were concerned the company may pull back on R&D until the close of the deal, but that does not appear to be the case. At the MWC mobile world congress event, Chief Executive Rami Rahim was emphatic that Juniper is all-in on AI and views it as a significant sea change in networking, giving the company its biggest opportunity for enterprise share gains it has ever had.
Zeus Kerravala is a principal analyst at ZK Research, a division of Kerravala Consulting. He wrote this article for SiliconANGLE.
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