Juniper Networks MIST AI network solution gives network engineers "superpowers"!

[51CTO.com original article] Under the night, the noise of the city gradually dies down, but a certain office building in Zhongguancun is still brightly lit. Under the bright lights on the fifth floor, network engineer Xiao Li is still working hard.

As the company's network scale expands and the types of business increase, various network problems always occur every day, and he has to work overtime to deal with the problems urgently. He has been working overtime for several days in a row and is exhausted. Today is another day of overtime.

Xiao Li leaned weakly on the chair to take a short rest. He couldn't help but imagine that if he had superpowers, he could handle everything in an instant like Superman and go home to be with his wife and children. How wonderful it would be. However, he was just an ordinary person. After a sigh, Xiao Li threw himself into the intense work again.

In fact, Xiao Li’s experience is not an isolated case. There are many network engineers like him who are stuck in network operation and maintenance difficulties.

Nowadays, there are a huge number of mobile terminals and Internet of Things (IoT) resources, and there are more and more cloud applications, operating systems and various hardware devices. Wireless networks are fully integrated into the business carrying level of enterprises just like wired networks, making operation and maintenance control difficult. Traditional network architecture is highly dependent on manual operations and is network-centric, which is obviously no longer able to meet the needs of modern enterprises.

So how can we help network engineers like Xiao Li escape from the sea of ​​suffering? How can we improve the network operation and maintenance capabilities of enterprises?

Empowering network operations and maintenance with artificial intelligence

Juniper Networks believes that enterprises need a new network that can change from passive to active, from network-centric to user-centric. At the same time, it gives network engineers "superpowers" to free their hands as much as possible, save time, change from manual operation and maintenance to automated operation and maintenance, simplify IT operation and maintenance, reduce human errors, and ensure that users can get a consistent and good network experience when accessing resources through wired and wireless networks using any device.

In other words, artificial intelligence can help with things that humans can't handle. Manual operation and maintenance has a slow response, while artificial intelligence responds in real time, saving time, effort, and worry in network management! Based on this, Juniper Networks Mist, as a pioneer in artificial intelligence networks and an innovator in the field of secure artificial intelligence networks, has launched the Mist AI network solution to help companies solve problems and give network engineers "superpowers"!

Juniper Networks Mist AI Network Solution Gives Network Engineers "Superpowers"!

As an innovative artificial intelligence network platform, Juniper Networks Mist AI-driven network solution can provide automatic, secure and efficient intelligent networks with distributed intelligence to optimize the performance, security, elasticity and management of dense, high-utilization networks that host a large number of mobile devices, ensuring a good end-user experience from the wireless edge, wired LAN to the WAN.

Mist Platform

With Juniper Networks Mist AI, network engineers can view the overall network service experience and personal service experience, and evaluate network quality online in real time. Mist can analyze network service experience from seven dimensions to help network engineers cope with network challenges. For personal service experience, network engineers can see the interaction of messages at each step of personal Internet access, and the time of successful connection is clear at a glance. In addition, network engineers can view network failure time playback at any time, without having to wait for network problems to recur.

In addition, Mist AI also has a powerful MARVIS natural language information interaction function. You only need to tell us what you need, such as: "Please tell me the users who have poor network connection now", and the MARVIS function interface AI will directly display the problematic users. For example, "Help me see what is the problem with user 4c:bb:58:ee:bf:26?", AI will display the root cause of the problem and tell us the impact of the problem, helping network engineers to see the user's problem at a glance, prescribe the right medicine, and always ensure the health of the network.

Is that enough? No! With Mist AI, network engineers can easily handle wired access security. Whether it is VLAN mismatch, cable failure, or port auto-negotiation problem, these switch failures can be clearly seen. In addition, the Mist solution will also provide value-added service solutions based on the actual needs of the enterprise.

Juniper Networks Mist is designed specifically for the era of smart devices. It innovatively builds an AI-driven wireless LAN (WLAN) that provides good user experience monitoring capabilities, while proactive automation replaces time-consuming manual IT tasks, making Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable. Juniper Networks Mist integrates enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and the Internet of Things to provide personalized location-based wireless services without the use of battery-powered beacons. In addition, all operations are managed through Mist's modern cloud architecture to maximize scalability, agility, and performance.

In summary, the Mist AI network solution can provide enterprises with four major capabilities:

◆ Network access is predictable, reliable, and measurable, and the user experience can be understood.

◆ Enable consistent network segmentation and security across wired and wireless infrastructures.

◆ Simplifying operations and maintenance with the help of automation technology can save time and money while reducing human errors.

◆ High-value location-based services such as advertising, wayfinding, messaging, and asset locating.

What users say about Mist AI network solutions

Currently, Juniper Networks Mist AI network solution has served users in multiple industries. Taking the education industry as an example, Dartmouth College in the United States chose Mist AI-driven WLAN solution and Juniper Networks switching technology to update its wireless and wired networks on campus. With the help of AI-driven insights and automation technology, network operations and maintenance are simplified, allowing IT personnel to have more time to deal with more strategic projects.

By using Mist Wi-Fi, the IT team is able to view the user experience in a whole new way, including the ability to track Wi-Fi and application usage, and the ability to establish, measure, and enforce defined service levels. For example, if it takes longer than 2 seconds for someone to join the library Wi-Fi network, the help desk will know immediately and be able to determine if it’s the device or a specific part of the network that’s at fault. With this information, support staff can resolve more connection issues themselves, without escalating to the network services team.

“With the analytics that Mist provides, we can quickly pinpoint the problem, even if it’s just 2% that’s broken, and we can resolve it without downtime. Together with Mist, we can deliver the experience our customers expect,” said Mitch Davis, CIO of Dartmouth College.

Furthermore, he says, “I like Juniper’s comprehensive technology from top to bottom, from edge to core, because I only have to use one operating system and I know Juniper will support it all, including security.”

In mid-June 2020, Juniper Networks Mist was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services (Global) for the second consecutive year, achieving a relatively high level of comprehensiveness of vision among all participating vendors. This is a full recognition of the unique value proposition of Juniper Networks Mist solutions, including open programmable architecture, patented virtual low-power Bluetooth technology without beacons, and extensive third-party component integration including partner solutions including advanced positioning applications based on ultra-wideband and Wi-Fi radar.

As artificial intelligence technology continues to mature and develop, it is a general trend to apply artificial intelligence to the field of network technology. In the future, artificial intelligence will definitely change the way networks are managed. Using artificial intelligence can replace a lot of manual work. Juniper Networks Mist solution is obviously at the forefront of network technology development. Juniper Networks has always insisted on continuously iterating industry technology solutions to achieve automated operation and maintenance of self-driven networks, network optimization, and solutions. The Mist solution will help more and more companies better embrace AI-driven networks.

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