Juniper Networks Unveils First Blueprint for Accelerating AI-Native Network Platform Adoption, Delivering up to 9x Faster Time to Value

Juniper Networks

New Training Courses, Trial Offers, Enterprise Agreements and White Glove Services Streamline Customers’ Ability to Learn, Try, Buy, Design, Deploy and Operate Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 20, 2024 – Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, today announced its unique Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration to streamline and accelerate each stage of adoption of the company’s leading AI-Native Networking Platform. With this comprehensive framework, which includes free education to quickly ramp knowledge and skills with limited resources, exclusive trial offers to easily validate the benefits of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform solutions, flexible licensing to simplify procurement and innovative support services to expedite deployment and enable optimized ongoing performance, customers and partners can build trust in AI and the cloud and accelerate time-to-value for Juniper’s entire secure networking portfolio, from campus and branch to data center and wide-area networking (WAN).

Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is purpose-built to leverage industry-leading AIOps that enable exceptional end-user experiences and simplified, end-to-end operator experiences. The platform leverages the right data, the right real-time responses and the right infrastructure, enabling every connection to be reliable, measurable and secure for every device, user, application and asset. Benefits of the Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform include up to 85 percent reduction in OPEX and up to 90 percent fewer network trouble tickets. With the Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration, customers and partners can reap similar benefits of up to 9x faster deployments.

Building Trust in AI

The complexity of today’s distributed IT and application environments is matched by the relentless demands and high expectations of them from users and business leaders. This pressures CIOs to ensure that the network—across multiple domains—can deliver consistently excellent experiences, which are closely tied to key business goals. AIOps is highly effective in enabling exceptional network experiences, but many organizations remain uncertain how to tap into the value of AI, confused and distracted by un-proven claims and market hype.

To help mitigate this uncertainty, Juniper’s Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration simplifies how enterprises can reap the proven benefits of its AI-Native Networking Platform across all phases of solution evaluation, design, deployment, adoption and operation.

The Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration currently comprises:

Learn: Targeted training courses designed to make the journey to an AI-Native Networking Platform faster, easier and more efficient​

Juniper offers the only AI in Networking course for Business Leaders, a complimentary course which explores how AIOps can be used strategically to optimize network operations, driving exponential business value while saving time, money and valuable resources.

In addition, Juniper has a range of hands-on classes and actionable certifications that help IT practitioners plan and start their AI-Native Networking Platform journey with confidence. These cover key products and technologies such as AIOps, wireless, switching, routing, security, cloud and automation. These Juniper classes are being offered free-of-charge as part of the Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration.

Try: Limited time offers make it easy to “kick the tires” with Juniper AI-Native products

Juniper provides a range of programs available to qualified applicants that make it exceptionally easy and cost-effective to try out various solutions within the Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform. Examples include:

  • Wireless: Free Access Point and 90 Day trial of Juniper’s wireless assurance software (available in the US only).
  • Full stack (campus and branch): AI on US provides a restricted amount of Access Points and software packaged and heavily discounted for a recommended US$250*.
  • Data center: Advanced license for Juniper Apstra data center assurance software for the cost of a standard license. Also, customers and partners are welcome to access the industry’s first Ops4AI Lab, hosted by Juniper, to easily validate performance and functionality of their AI models and workloads.
  • WAN routing: Free Flexible Service Credits to apply towards migration services and training, free first year of support including Juniper Support Insights, plus free 3-year trial of the Juniper® Paragon Automation (2.0) Platform.
  • Security: Buy one year’s security subscription, get two years free.
  • Juniper Support Insights: Free-of-charge support offer to enhance customer support experience.

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