Juniper’s enterprise networking enterprise on a roll

Enterprise networking has by no means been so distinguished for Juniper Networks as it’s proper now.

For the primary time in Juniper’s historical past, its enterprise networking enterprise was the most important of its three core divisions – cloud, service supplier and enterprise – within the first quarter of 2022. Enterprise networking income grew 18% year-over-year in Q1 to $433 million, whereas Q1 cloud and repair supplier income got here in at $307 million and $428 million, respectively.

Quite a lot of issues got here collectively to make that occur – all the things from pent-up demand and pandemic-delayed community refresh cycles to enterprise digital transformation and an inflow of spending to help hybrid staff, mentioned Manoj Leelanivas, Juniper Networks’ chief working officer, in an interview forward of the corporate’s International Summit occasion this week. 

“There’s a rising want for simplicity within the enterprise like by no means earlier than, as a result of organizations must handle and navigate campuses, branches, distant staff and micro websites which individuals are creating,” Leelanivas mentioned. 

In Juniper’s case, bolstering administration and enabling operational simplicity means utilizing and enhancing its Mist AI/ML cloud-based administration platform. Mist is on the core of a number of Juniper companies, together with its Wi-Fi Assurance providing, which measures efficiency and service-level metrics for wi-fi networks; Wired Assurance, which faucets into Juniper‘s community routers and switches to assemble telemetry knowledge that measures community efficiency; and WAN Assurance, a cloud-based service that can collect telemetry knowledge from Juniper SRX, Contrail and different WAN gear and cross that data to Marvis, which is the natural-language-based AI/ML engine on the core of Mist.

Most lately Juniper expanded its portfolio of Mist companies with SD-WAN administration capabilities. The additions embrace zero-touch provisioning with WAN topology configuration, security-policy configuration, WAN service and coverage configuration, network-tenancy configuration, and community configuration.

“Marvis simplifies the set up and operation of the community by providing self-healing and self-management capabilities for WiFi, wi-fi and SD-WAN multi function management level, which is a bonus for our prospects and key differentiators for us available in the market,” Leelanivas mentioned. 

One other differentiator that’s bringing consideration to Juniper is the corporate’s Apstra intent-based networking software program. Juniper lately up to date the software program to assist prospects safe and help smaller knowledge facilities at distributed edge networks. The Apstra software program retains a real-time repository of configuration, telemetry, and validation data to make sure the community is doing what IT groups need it to do. The software program contains automation to supply constant community and safety insurance policies for workloads throughout bodily and digital infrastructures. As well as, its baked-in analytics capabilities carry out common community checks to safeguard configurations. 

“At its core, Apstra is hardware-agnostic – a lot in order that we’ve got a big buyer knowledge heart that’s utterly utilizing Cisco switches however they’re all being managed by Apstra, not Cisco’s ACI [Application Centric Infrastructure],” Leelanivas mentioned. “So, our automation management level, Apstra, is making it simpler for this buyer to handle a knowledge heart although it’s not our networking gear. That’s one other space within the enterprise starting to point out loads of promise.”

Juniper additionally lately added an expert service group referred to as Apstra Deployment and Migration that can assist prospects migrate or construct new Apstra-based environments.