Juniper Networks has upgraded its cloud-based administration platform and launched a brand new swap household for campus and department networks.
On the administration facet, Juniper says the objective is to simplify community operations for organizations with a mixture of campus, department, micro-site, and remote-worker settings, and it’s doing that by including options to its Mist AI/ML cloud-based administration platform and its Marvis digital community assistant.
Mavis troubleshooting options, Home windows consumer
Juniper has added a Home windows consumer for the Mavis assistant to assemble and move alongside knowledge about Home windows units so Mist AI can detect person points and advocate remediations, Jeff Aaron vp of Enterprise Advertising at Juniper wrote in a weblog concerning the new options.
Juniper additionally added DHCP Failure Scopes, a device to pinpoint the supply of switching points by figuring out whether or not they’re on the DHCP server, a specific VLAN, or a consumer.
One other characteristic, Wired Authentication, faucets into Juniper community routers and switches for telemetry knowledge that measures community efficiency and identifies units and customers that fail to authenticate repeatedly on wired units. The thought is to offer directors the flexibility to determine and block these units and customers, Aaron acknowledged.
As a part of Juniper Wi-Fi Assurance, which measures efficiency and repair ranges on wi-fi networks, the corporate has added the flexibility to map the places of entry factors with out utilizing exterior applied sciences comparable to GPS. “Using 802.11mc Spherical Journey Time (RTT) and Tremendous Time Measurement (FTM), this characteristic will improve accuracy for our location companies by calculating distance between APs and routinely locations Juniper APs on a mesh map,” Aaron acknowledged. “We all know that correct AP placement and indoor location companies are crucial to optimizing the person expertise; customers count on high-performing wi-fi networks, and, with this new characteristic, our prospects can troubleshoot quicker and extra precisely earlier than their customers expertise an issue.”
New EX4100 swap
Mist and its new options are all baked into the brand new EX4100 Sequence swap, which is aimed toward enterprise campus and department access-layer deployments. It’s a 1U, 376Gbps capability system and is available in 24 and 48 port configurations. It presents MACsec AES256 encryption, in addition to flow-based telemetry to detect and mitigate safety threats, Aaron acknowledged.
Just like the EX4400 launched final yr, the EX4100 extends the flexibility to design and construct EVPN-VXLAN community materials that stretch from the info middle to the campus core, distribution, and entry layers, Aaron acknowledged.
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