Juniper tunes AI to find and fix SD-WAN, WAN routing problems

Juniper Networks continues to deliver on its overarching enterprise AI plans, this time adding features that will help customers proactively spot and fix WAN routing, SD-WAN and SASE problems. The enhancements are aimed at fortifying the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year, which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering.

The AI-Native Networking Platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution. At the core of the platform is the firm’s cloud-based, natural-language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology, which can detect and describe countless network problems.

As part of the AI platform rollout, the vendor introduced Marvis Minis, which simulate end user, device, and application traffic to learn the network configuration and continuously feed data back into the Mist AI engine. The Minis software works by setting up a digital twin of a customer’s network environment to simulate and test user connections, validate network configurations, and find/detect problems without requiring any additional hardware, according to Juniper.