Solution Benefits

Introduction to Juniper Mist WAN Assurance

Juniper Mist™ WAN Assurance is a cloud-managed solution designed to optimize and simplify wide area network (WAN) operations. It is part of Juniper Mist's AI-Native networking platform, providing high performance, tunnel-free forwarding, enhanced AI operations, and automation for WAN management.

The network links providing site to datacenter, cloud, and public connectivity paths are joined by WAN edge devices to form the fabric of the WAN. The WAN edges are transformed with Juniper’s AI-driven SD-WAN solution and act as your distributed policy enforcement points managed centrally from the cloud. Juniper Mist WAN Assurance solves many of the legacy SD-WAN solutions' security, monitoring, and troubleshooting challenges. Integrate Juniper Mist™ Wired Assurance, Juniper Mist™ Wireless Assurance, and now Juniper Mist WAN Assurance into a unified Mist AI™ dashboard to streamline deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting across your network. Juniper Mist WAN Assurance securely connects branch offices with Session Smart Routers as WAN edges.

Watch the following video for an overview of the Juniper Mist WAN Assurance feature.

Site-to-Site Connectivity (SD-WAN)

Your WAN edge transforms when integrated with Juniper® SD-WAN driven by Mist AI. Your edge device becomes fast, secure, and application-aware with Juniper Mist WAN Assurance. Through an abstracted overlay, SD-WAN traffic is efficiently routed across a variety of cost-effective broadband service providers, offering a modern alternative to costly legacy MPLS solutions. The architecture ensures uninterrupted service with stateful failovers between diverse connection types such as MPLS, broadband, satellite, and LTE, ensuring seamless transitions for critical applications that are virtually undetectable to end-users. Moreover, Juniper Mist WAN Assurance enriches the WAN edge experience by providing deep visibility into network health, tunnel activity, connectivity, and active session metrics. This strategic insight empowers administrators to fine-tune the network, influencing traffic at the application level to ensure optimal access and enhanced security measures. Such integration epitomizes the shift towards a more agile, intelligent, and cost-effective network infrastructure capable of adapting to the growing demands of modern business landscapes.

Juniper Mist WAN Assurance SLEs

Juniper Mist™ captures, analyzes, correlates, and classifies event and performance data from your network and devices. It then provides you with an assessment of the quality of users' experiences on your network. Many factors contribute to positive or negative user experiences. Juniper Mist organizes these factors into Service-Level Expectations (SLEs). When user experiences fail to meet your SLE success thresholds, Juniper Mist identifies the root cause of each poor experience and provides complete details so that you can address the issues.

By employing WAN SLE metrics such as WAN Edge Health, WAN Link Health, and Application Health, Juniper Mist WAN Assurance adeptly pinpoints the underlying causes of WAN disruptions that negatively impact user experiences. This innovative approach facilitates streamlined operations, enhances visibility into end-user interactions, and simplifies the complexities of monitoring and troubleshooting your network, ultimately driving towards optimal network performance and user satisfaction.

Mist Management Model

Juniper's AI-driven SD-WAN solution unifies the management of branch wireless, wired, and SD-WAN networks within a single, intuitive platform. Experience the simplicity of zero-touch provisioning, life cycle management, and configuration—all seamlessly orchestrated through the comprehensive Juniper Mist dashboard. This integration streamlines operations, enhances network agility, and enables a smarter, more efficient network infrastructure tailored to the modern enterprise.