The Juniper-Mist partnership and Dartmouth’s approach

AI continues to revolutionize network management, raising the bar for connectivity and reliability across industries. The Juniper-Mist partnership exemplifies this shift, with the size of knowledge and telemetry driving significant advancements.

That networking has led to feedback from customers. Every connection counts, but just having connectivity just isn’t really having a fantastic connection, in line with Jean English (pictured, middle), chief marketing officer of Juniper Networks Inc.

“While you think through the initial deployment and installation of Mist, what meaning to have a fantastic experience, that was really the forefront of the pondering of AI-native networking,” English said. “Experience first, experiences on the tip user, in addition to for the operator.”

English and Bryan Ward (left), lead infrastructure engineer at Dartmouth College, spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier (right) on the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed AI-driven networking and the Juniper-Mist partnership. (* Disclosure below.)

The Juniper-Mist partnership integrated at Dartmouth

In networking, obstacles exist, but AI helps to resolve them. Prior to Mist, the obstacles faced by Dartmouth included poor connectivity, poor design and bad user experience, in line with Ward.

“We realized that we would have liked to completely rearchitect our system. We would have liked to begin fresh, clean slate. Don’t bring any of the legacy technology into the longer term,” he said. “We just needed to hit the bottom running with something recent, something that we all know that’s going to work for us, and over time we’ve learned to trust it as well.”

Dartmouth was hesitant at first when hearing in regards to the Juniper acquisition, in line with Ward. Nevertheless, its experience with each corporations independently meant it didn’t have to doubt the initial acquisition.

“We began with Mist in 2018. Over the past few years, we’ve realized that that partnership has really been capable of evolve the Mist product, the ecosystem, the AI, into a very groundbreaking technology that we leverage on daily basis,” he said. “It runs our campus. It runs all the things for us on the network.”

Here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Juniper Networks AI-Native NOW event. Neither Juniper Networks Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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