Juniper Apstra Benefits

Juniper Validated Designs in the data center start with the Apstra software, a multi-vendor, intent-based networking system (IBNS) that provides closed-loop automation and assurance. Apstra translates vendor-agnostic business intent and technical objectives to essential policy and device-specific configurations. The system also validates user intent, as part of the initial deployment and continuously thereafter, to ensure that the network state does not deviate from the intended state. Any anomaly or deviation can be flagged, and remediation actions can be taken directly from Apstra.

The core benefits of Apstra are:

• Intent-based networking—Apstra automates configuration creation to realize the intent, deploys the configuration to appropriate devices, and continuously validates the operating state against intended state.
• Network Automation—Apstra is a multi-vendor network automation platform that is continuously updated to work with the latest hardware and is extensively tested using modern DevOps practices.
• Recoverability—The Built-in rollback capability of Apstra allows to quickly restore the system to a known-working configuration if needed.
• Day 2+ Management—Apstra’s rich data analysis capabilities, including Flow Data, reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
• Simplicity—Apstra simplifies network deployment and management. As an example, using Apstra to implement a Data Center Interconnection (DCI), reduces complexity and makes it easy to unify multiple data centers, while isolating failure domains for high availability and resilience.