Juniper Mist Cloud Networking

Introduction

The Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture is built on a modern microservices cloud which enables elastic scale to meet your digital transformation needs focusing on operational simplicity, 100% API-based programmability, and end-user engagement through location-based services.

Today, we offer a broad portfolio of subscription services that make it easy to “go cloud or hybrid”, while delivering advanced wired and wireless experiences unavailable with legacy network solutions.

More importantly, our cloud wireless solution is the industry’s first and only platform that delivers amazing wired and wireless experiences for end users, IoT devices and clients while simplifying and automating operations for IT teams.

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Introduction

Operational Simplicity

Overview

The Network For The AI-Driven Enterprise

When you use automation and AI-driven IT operations (AIOps) to streamline your network, you can quickly configure, troubleshoot, and protect your network while minimizing the potential for errors. Simplifying NetOps and SecOps through automation and AIOps makes your business more agile, your network more reliable, and your data more secure. When you automate workflows, you can deploy new applications and services faster and with far less chance of error. Your security levels rise because the policies you set are propagated across your distributed infrastructure for automatic enforcement. And threat-aware networks identify and block anomalies without any human intervention.

How Juniper Can Help "We are pioneering AI for IT with the only AI-driven platform for wired and wireless networks, so you can focus on what matters. "

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are adopted in multiple business areas, and network operations is no exception. The need to resolve complex network issues, prevent threats, and grow business, all lend themselves to AI.

AI Components

The Network For The AI-Driven Enterprise

Experience is the new uptime. The network for the next decade is revolutionizing enterprise networks with AI-driven automation, actionable insights, and the agility plus elasticity of a microservices cloud.

It applies artificial intelligence and data science tools to deliver optimized experiences and simplified network operations. Traditional wired and wireless LAN solutions are built on antiquated architectures that lack the scale, reliability and agility needed to address today’s diverse enterprise needs.

Juniper Networks, driven by Mist AI, offers wired and wireless access solutions including the EX Series Switches, Juniper access points, and Juniper Mist cloud services. Leveraging this solution, IT teams can streamline operations and simplify user and device troubleshooting, while delivering innovative and strategic projects with IoT and location services.

At Juniper, our solutions driven by Mist AI are proven to simplify network complexity and enable your network to more autonomously support your business over the next decade.

Solution Comparison

AI-Driven Operations (AIOps)

Overview

Benefits

Overview

The proliferation of devices, data, and people have made IT infrastructure more complex than ever to manage, with many looking to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to help. AIOps takes the complexity out of growing IT networks by automating key tasks, proactively addressing issues before they arise, and delivering unparalleled insight into user, device, and application behavior.

Juniper is a recognized leader in AIOps. Our wired access, wireless access and SD-WAN solutions, for example, are all unified by Mist AI. The AIops solution simplifies end-to-end troubleshooting, self-driving network operations, and client-to-cloud insight into customer experiences. In addition, Marvis VNA is the industry’s first AI-driven Virtual Network Assistant with an interactive conversational interface that provides simple recommendations to complex problems. All of these tools, driven by Mist AI, save time and money while maximizing the value of your network infrastructure.

Additionally, AI and ML are key ingredients in other areas of the Juniper product portfolio, enabling critical functions like network health and diagnostics with corrective actions (for example, Paragon Insights), intent-based networking and closed loop assurance (Apstra), and real-time actionable intel for threat prevention and protection (Connected Security).

Case Study

Benefits

Overview

Our robust Mist AI engine streamlines tasks and boosts enterprise reliability by enabling AIOps with a variety of automated and self-driving capabilities and actions.

Benefits

Attain unprecedented visibility into user and application experiences all the way down to the individual session level.
Configure new sites in minutes using automated workflows and customized templates.
Deploy and manage campus fabric architectures at scale using the Juniper Mist Cloud.
Correlate user events and dynamically capture packets for fast fault isolation and resolution with no need for onsite visits.
Create automated workflows for rapid troubleshooting, help desk ticketing, and IT notifications.
Automatically self-correct and optimize the network in real time.
Provide prescriptive human actions when self-driving isn’t possible.
Confirm whether actions taken had the appropriate effect.

Real AI In Networking

Real AI In Action

Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Wireless Networking

The purest definition of AI is software that performs a task on par with a human expert. A subset of AI, machine learning (ML) provides an ability through a set of algorithms to learn and improve from experience.

AI technology is creeping into every industry. In the networking industry, the proliferation of devices, data, and people has made IT infrastructure more complex than ever to manage, with many looking to AI for help. Together AI and ML play an increasingly critical role in taming complexity for growing IT networks.

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.

Industry Insights

Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Wireless Networking

Deliver exceptional user experiences over a converged, service-intelligent network.

At Juniper, our solutions driven by Mist AI are proven to simplify network complexity and enable your network to more autonomously support your business over the next decade.

Let us help you on your journey through AI and ML. Our high-level overviews explore the meaning of AI in the networking industry .

AI for Networking

Enterprise AI: Client To Cloud

Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Wireless Networking

Enterprise AI: Client To Cloud

Juniper’s unique client-to-cloud, experience-first networking approach enables granular visibility and enhanced performance across wired, wireless, WAN, and at the network, device, session, and user levels. The outcomes? Improved service-level agreements (SLAs) and increased service stickiness.

Your enterprise users get an exceptional experience whether they’re collaborating on a videoconference or voice call, accessing SaaS apps, or simply downloading data.

Managed SD-WAN. The Session Smart Router provides superior application performance by automatically adapting to the requirements of individual sessions and user segments.

Wired. Rich Junos telemetry combined with AI delivers proactive root cause identification with automated actions.

Wireless. AI-driven operations and support help to quickly determine problems, make proactive corrections, and offer predictive recommendations.

Security. Connecting network and security components provides visibility, analysis, and correlation of potentially malicious traffic on premises or in the cloud, with consistent security policies.

Building an AI System

Wired &Wireless Access, Driven By Juniper Mist AI

Deliver Exceptional User & Device Experiences

Ensure the best user, device and IoT experiences with AI-driven insights and customizable service level expectations (SLEs) based on streaming telemetry data from Juniper APs and EX Series switches.

Deliver Exceptional User & Device Experiences

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Transform IT With AI-driven Operations & Support

Simplify network operations and automate the support experience using an integrated AI engine with self-driving capabilities that proactively resolves issues before users even notice.

Defy Infrastructure limitations With A Microservices Cloud

Build a scalable, agile and reliable solution with a cloud first, microservices architecture that natively integrates AI and data science tools to meet rapidly changing requirements

Defy Infrastructure limitations With A Microservices Cloud

Drive Strategic Business Value Through Location Services

Enhance business relevance with virtual BLE, machine learning and integrated IoT technologies that eliminate the need for overlay hardware and software. Boost user engagement locate assets and support proximity tracing with ease and accuracy

Drive Strategic Business Value Through Location Services

Juniper Mist AI Technical Description

Experience Is The New Uptime

Artificial Intelligence Overview

“Juniper Global Summit”:Learn how to bridge the gap between network performance and user experience with automation, insight and proactive actions for client-to-cloud. Hear from Jeff Aaron, VP, Enterprise Product Marketing and Sujai Hajela, SVP, AI-Driven Enterprise at Juniper Networks - only from our Juniper Global Summit, now available on demand.

Artificial Intelligence Overview

In the first video of our technical series, you’ll learn about some of the core tools we use in our AI platform: mutual information, decision trees, reinforcement learning, and long short-term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM RNN).

AI:Mutual Information

Artificial Intelligence Overview

AI:Mutual Information

The Juniper/Mist AI platform uses Mutual Information to help you understand which network features have the most information for predicting failure or success in the service level-expectations (SLE) client metrics.

AI:Decision Trees

AI:Natural Language Processing

AI:Mutual Information

Juniper/Mist AI platform uses Decision Trees for incomplete negotiation detection, MTU mismatch, cable faults, and predict failures of common networking problems.

AI:Reinforcement Learning

AI:Natural Language Processing

The Juniper/Mist AI platform uses Reinforcement Learning to perform tasks like Radio Resource Management to optimize the RF radio waves that transmit network traffic in wireless LANs and helps optimise channel and RF Power settings.The benefits of using reinforcement learning for RRM are simple, it allows network customized RRM policies per site, creating a wireless coverage environment akin to a well-tailored suit.

AI:Natural Language Processing

The Juniper/Mist AI platform uses Natural Language Processing to interface with AI/ML pushing AIOPs to the next level. Using NLP and Marvis, a single question leads to the resolution of a problem that would normally take days. In this way, Marvis becomes a virtual member of the IT Operations team. NLP works with Marvis (AI Engine) ,to help you resolve problems more effectively.

Junos OS : Juniper Network Operating System

Junos operating system runs routing, switching, and security over the Juniper Networks high-performance network infrastructure.

Open Source Management Platform
With the rapid emergence of cloud applications, network operators face increasing challenges in building and managing high-performance, highly available, and secure networks. Multiple open source initiatives, such as SONiC, have emerged to provide a unified architecture to manage and control all hardware elements in the network.

Native Junos integration with SONiC and open source management platforms serve as a concrete proof point of open programmability, while still offering the rich routing and telemetry innovations that Juniper has to offer.

Flexible Deployment Model
Advances in merchant silicon and white boxes tailored for critical functions such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), SD-WAN, and vCPE have enabled a vast ecosystem of network functions on demand. Service providers and enterprises can now optimize only the network elements that will best help them realize their business and operational objectives.

Complete disaggregation of the Junos OS provides the ability for Junos OS to run on Juniper hardware, third-party hardware, and on containers in the cloud. It also enables an open ecosystem of cloud-ready networking applications, giving operators ultimate choice and flexibility while allowing faster innovation, independent of the underlying hardware.

Junos Node Slicing
Junos OS supports the convergence of multiple concurrent network functions on the same physical infrastructure through Junos Node Slicing. This capability allows service providers to optimize their infrastructures while offering differentiated services on a single chassis. By decoupling network software from the underlying infrastructure, Junos Node Slicing accelerates service deployment, reduces capital outlay, and improves operational efficiency.

Overview

Innovatively designed for simplicity, Junos OS is the single operating system that powers Juniper’s broad portfolio of physical and virtual networking and security products. Built for reliability, security, and flexibility, it runs some of the world’s most sophisticated network deployments, giving operators a competitive advantage over those who run other network operating systems.

Junos OS automates network operations with streamlined precision, furthers operational efficiency, and frees up valuable time and resources for top-line growth opportunities.

Junos OS for the Cloud
Junos OS for the cloud provides a flexible, disaggregated consumption model for network applications. Lightweight, feature-packed, standalone Junos OS is delivered in a Docker container that runs on Linux, allowing you to modularize networking applications and distribute them across a virtual environment. Its open APIs enable third-party application integration. By packaging Junos applications as a Docker container, service providers, cloud operators, and enterprises can deploy Junos container applications in server-based environments to address their unique requirements.

Junos OS Automation
Junos OS is architected with automation, programmability, and DevOps in mind. It provides rich APIs, a command library, scripting support, programming, and integration with popular automation and orchestration frameworks. Built to be open, Junos works with industry standards such as Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, NETCONF, and YANG. Its streaming-telemetry infrastructure delivers device, system, and network data in real time via multiple data export models such as OpenConfig and gRPC.

Several capabilities support Junos OS automation.

Streaming Telemetry and Junos Telemetry Interface (JTI). JTI provides real-time data access through streaming telemetry. Using a push model approach, it’s more efficient, extensible, and scalable than the SNMP pull model. JTI support for industry standards such as OpenConfig and gRPC simplifies integration with your operations environment.

Open APIs. Junos OS REST API interface enables you to securely connect to Junos OS devices, execute remote procedure calls, and use a REST API Explorer GUI. In addition to programmability enabled by NETCONF and YANG, Junos supports Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) to install, manipulate, and delete network device configurations.

Junos Extension Toolkit (JET). JET provides a modern, programmatic interface for developing applications and simplifying the automation of operational, configuration, and management tasks. It offers a rich set of open and customizable APIs for control, management, and data planes.

Junos OS Advantages

One OS Network-wide

Open and Programmable Automation

Reduces the time and effort required to plan, deploy, and operate network infrastructure.

Open and Programmable Automation

Enables a DevOps approach that simplifies complex network operations and improves service agility.

Disaggregation

Open and Programmable Automation

Disaggregation

Extends traditional disaggregation by creating a flexible consumption model for network applications.

Convergence

Simple Routing Policy Management

Disaggregation

Combines multiple concurrent network functions on a single chassis using Junos Node Slicing to optimize network infrastructure and accelerate service deployment.

High Availability

Simple Routing Policy Management

Makes the insertion of line cards and the subsequent network OS upgrade a non-service impact event.

Simple Routing Policy Management

Supports fine-grained network traffic controls, while separate control, management, and data planes increase reliability and security.

Meaningful Configuration Hierarchies

Combined with annotations, commit check, and commit and rollback features, exemplifies ease of use and operational agility.

Modular Software Architecture

Meaningful Configuration Hierarchies

Provides highly scalable software that keeps pace with evolving requirements.

Junos Evolved

Overview

Cloud providers understand that operating a flexible, cost-effective network requires simplified operations across a highly scalable infrastructure. Junos Evolved delivers just that. It’s a unified, end-to-end network operating system that provides reliability, agility, and open programmability for successful cloud-scale deployments.

Junos Evolved builds on the strengths of the Junos to simplify network operations with a highly scalable unified end-to-end network OS while providing the reliability, quality, agility, visibility, open programmability and simplicity to facilitate cloud operator success with a flexible and cost-effective network infrastructure at cloud scale.

With a consistent Junos experience, along with industry-leading routing and management capabilities, the disaggregated JUNOS EVOLVED (Juniper's cloud-optimized, disaggregated) network operating system (NOS) provides:

Cloud-optimized scalability and microservices architecture with a centralized database to work as a compute cloud. Uses all compute resources on network equipment including routing engines, line cards, and more to provide increased scale and resiliency while reducing hardware costs.

High quality and reliability by design to greatly reduce fault. Uses lean profiles for better efficiency, implementing only the features required in cloud-scale deployments. Delivers better visibility with streaming events and telemetry for faster problem discovery and service restoration.

High feature velocity using community tools for faster onboarding; smooth, hitless upgrades that accelerate feature adoption; and enhanced debuggability streamlining qualification and deployment. Uses a modular architecture for greater flexibility and agility with composable pieces.

Open programmability using a Linux-native system and tools for easy integration with third-party applications and hardware. Extensible to easily create custom functions and a developer-friendly platform with a short learning curve. With all states and statistics modeled in a centralized database, third-party applications also have easy access to Juniper’s deep telemetry and status.

Simplicity and operational consistency, minimizingthe effort required to implement, maintain, and customize the end-to-end solution. Provides versatility to create the solution that best fits your cloud-scale deployments through simple third-party application integration and the ability to implement the components required for specific use cases.

JUNOS EVOLVED Features

Scalable and Reliable Architecture

Efficiently uses all compute resources on network elements to distribute workload and maximize performance. Enables fault isolation between components with the ability to restart them with the last state if problems occur and to provide hitless component upgrades.

Open Programmability

Powerful programmability and customization through a transparent interface enables flexibility and rapid user innovation to augment software capabilities. Simple to integrate with the control, management, and data planes through Juniper APIs, providing native integration with open source initiatives and automation frameworks to reduce errors and operating costs.

One Junos Experience

Common API and CLI provides a single end-to-end experience across all versions of Junos, simplifying operations and reducing training costs. Extremely manageable with deep telemetry and analytics easily accessible by any application. Exploiting this data, Juniper, open source, and third-party applications can provide proactive management with increased visibility and faster fault isolation

Evolving JUNOS OS For The Future

The Junos OS architecture and infrastructure evolve with changing business and industry challenges and new technology trends. The scope of network automation may first appear daunting.

As such, it would be helpful to think of automation as a journey, and to break this journey down into discrete, manageable phases.

In this white paper, learn about the evolution of Junos OS, including its:

Agility to adapt to new business models.
Continuous support for increased scale, availability, programmability, automation, and security.
Need for deeper, more scalable and flexible network insights.

View a demonstration of an implementation of a standard Linux application on Junos Evolved.

Junos OS for Future

Benefits Of State Distribution In Junos Evolved

State distribution is the central system that Junos Evolved is built upon as it is the central conduit for all information sharing.

SONiC Operating System

Juniper’s Product Portfolio With SONiC

The disaggregated SONiC operating system offers cloud providers the ability to implement best-of-breed technology with a single OS for reduced operational costs and automated resiliency. It delivers greater flexibility to implement both vendor-supported and open source applications to meet your cloud-scale business needs.
Juniper’s SONiC implementation combines the the power of our hardware and routing technology with the flexibility, resiliency, and cost savings of SONiC’s open and disaggregated architecture. Juniper switching platforms with SONiC can plug seamlessly into a cloud provider’s unified SONiC network infrastructure.

SONiC Features:

Unified OS

Simplifies operations with reduced training and operational costs. Provides a single OS across the cloud data center on dedicated switches and routers as well as on servers performing switching and routing functionality. Eliminates duplication and reduces failures with a unified structure for easy control of all network hardware.

Open Architecture

Open, disaggregated, containerized architecture enables increased business flexibility with the ability to implement new features more quickly without having to wait for a large software release. Easy implementation and upgrades through a hitless upgrade process. Open source and vendor-developed components (such as Juniper’s containerized routing engine) align with business and technical requirements.

Industry-Leading Routing Technology

Easily plugs into SONiC as a containerized solution to provide trusted, feature-rich routing across your infrastructure, regardless of the hardware platform SONiC is running on. Industry-first disaggregated routing stack extends operational efficiency with a high-quality, scalable, high-performance routing solution.

Juniper Switch Support

Best-of-breed switching platforms in a unified infrastructure run the SONiC OS for simplified operations. QFX Series Switches are currently supported.

Use Case: Open Networking:

SONiC on the Juniper PTX10008 :

Juniper has been investing in SONiC for years and already supports SONiC on QFX-series switches. This video not only presents SONiC on PTX-series routers by discussing hardware and architecture, but it also provides a tour of the PTX10008 and includes a demo of line card removal and insertion.

Use Case: MACsec & MPLS On SONiC

Whether running on Juniper hardware or not, you can also easily integrate Juniper’s deployment-hardened routing stack into SONiC using container technology.