AI continues to revolutionize network management, raising the bar for connectivity and reliability across industries. The Juniper-Mist partnership exemplifies this shift, with the scale of data and telemetry driving significant advancements.

That networking has led to feedback from customers. Every connection counts, but just having connectivity is not really having a great connection, according to Jean English (pictured, middle), chief marketing officer of Juniper Networks Inc.

TheCUBE is on set at the NYSE during the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event.

“When you think through the initial deployment and installation of Mist, what that means to have a great experience, that was really the forefront of the thinking of AI-native networking,” English said. “Experience first, experiences on the end user, as well as for the operator.”

English and Bryan Ward (left), lead infrastructure engineer at Dartmouth College, spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier (right) at the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed AI-driven networking and the Juniper-Mist partnership. (* Disclosure below.)

The Juniper-Mist partnership integrated at Dartmouth

In networking, obstacles exist, but AI helps to solve them. Prior to Mist, the obstacles faced by Dartmouth included poor connectivity, poor design and bad user experience, according to Ward.

“We realized that we needed to completely rearchitect our system. We needed to start fresh, clean slate. Don’t bring any of the legacy technology into the future,” he said. “We just needed to hit the ground running with something new, something that we know that is going to work for us, and over the years we’ve learned to trust it as well.”

Dartmouth was hesitant at first when hearing about the Juniper acquisition, according to Ward. However, its experience with both companies independently meant it didn’t need to doubt the initial acquisition.

“We started with Mist in 2018. Over the past few years, we’ve realized that that partnership has really been able to evolve the Mist product, the ecosystem, the AI, into a really groundbreaking technology that we leverage every day,” he said. “It runs our campus. It runs everything for us on the network.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event. Neither Juniper Networks Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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