In an exclusive interview with Telecom Review during the 18th edition of the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit, Maria Stebneva, Head of Sales for Canada at Juniper Networks, highlighted how the company is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver the latest cutting-edge solutions and elevate user experiences.
How does Juniper Networks leverage artificial intelligence to deliver innovative solutions to service providers?
In Q1 2024, Juniper announced the first AI-Native Networking platform, along with its strategy to be the leader in AI-Native Networking. With a mission to deliver exceptional customer experiences, our priority is to ensure that every connection counts.
Our AI-Native Networking vision for service providers builds on our experience-first networking approach, which provides a better-connected experience by simplifying network operations for service providers, so they can focus on delivering a better customer experience to their end-users. We believe the first step in achieving these results is making sure we collect the right real-time data; transform it to provide the most predictable, measurable results; and ensure that the end-to-end services are working seamlessly.
At the core of this AI-native networking platform is MIST, the company we have acquired, which uses AI, including machine learning (ML), and data science to collect data from access points, switches, routers, and firewalls, and helps with the resolution and optimization of the user experience across wireless and wired access, SD-WAN, data centers, and security domains. As an example, our ML capabilities provide predictive analytics that help accelerate MTTI and MTTR for network and service-related issues, even, at times, before the customer notices.
What are your company’s latest cutting-edge solutions that aim to enhance operator and user experience?
Juniper is perhaps best known for building networks that can scale to meet the needs of the smallest regional and largest, global service providers around the world. Our reputation in this field is built on a foundation of technical expertise, innovative design, and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by large-scale network operators from the access and metro to the multi-service edge, across the core, and throughout the data center.
One remarkable solution we recently announced is the PTX10002-36QDD. It’s an exceptional piece of equipment that provides a throughput of around 28.8 TB with 36x 800GigE, 72x 400GigE or 288x 100GigE interfaces. Last week, we enabled the first in the world deployment in Finland with telecom operator, Elisa, delivering 800 GBPs ethernet services over 800 GBPs Juniper coherent optics, demonstrating a worldwide breakthrough.
How important are strategic collaborations in achieving Juniper Networks’s goals and vision for the digital future?
We are very open to meaningful collaborations. Right now we look at the AI data centers' ecosystem and the players in the AI data center space.
Another example is Juniper Beyond Labs is an innovation hub within Juniper Networks that focuses on delivering experience-first networking through an AI-Native Networking approach.
Our global research and engineering teams work with an ecosystem of partners to pioneer technology focused on solving our industry’s most difficult challenges.
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