AI-driven networking solutions are revolutionising the way organisations’ networks are deployed, managed and secured. Combining ground-breaking AIOps, network technologies work together to deliver unparalleled performance, security, and resilience to deliver an outstanding user experience. Our experts can enable you to deploy faster and ensure you gain all the powerful benefits of this modern networking solution.
1. Benefit from resilience, scalability and security of microservices architecture
AI-driven networking solutions are built around a microservices architecture. Network services are delivered in a modular way enabling cloud services to scale up or down elastically as needed. Operating independently of each other means that microservices can be monitored and scaled independently to meet demand. The microservices architecture also lends itself to the continuous digital transformation required to deliver IT services at an enterprise scale. Sectioning down the network architecture into small parts also enables continuous technical integrations, easier development, and simplifies deployment of new updates.
Resilience is also built in so that even if a small part of your network fails or suffers a security breach, the network is sectioned so the whole system doesn’t go down. This is why companies like Netflix and Uber harness a microservices architecture to deliver scalability and resilience on a global scale and ultimately, any downtime would cost them millions and lose customers. The microservices platform is 100% programmable using open APIs for full automation and seamless integration with complementary third-party technology.
2. Overcoming resource constraints
Highly-skilled Network Managers can be hard to find, need regular training, and can be difficult to retain in their posts. AI-driven networking simplifies network operations and automates the support experience using an integrated AI Network Assistant with self-driving capabilities that proactively resolve issues before users even notice.
Once deployed it constantly monitors the network, identifies anomalies and performs self-driving remediations on the network. Harnessing the amazing intuition of natural language processing (NLP) it keeps you fully informed and updated in a conversational, user-friendly way and users can ask questions as if they were talking to a human IT expert. And with open APIs, it can also operate via popular third-party chat solutions, such as Slack and ServiceNow.
3. Addressing the complexity and security risks of increasing IoT devices
The growing number and variety of IoT devices that need to connect to networks today can create complexity and security vulnerabilities, increasing your cyber attack surface and the number of ways your network can succumb to a cyberattack. With AI-driven networking, IoT devices are not an afterthought in your network strategy, their enterprise grade access points and network operating system are fully geared up to drive the convergence of technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), and IoT. They even include a port for direct, programmable, integration to the analogue and digital interfaces of IoT devices and their network architecture can be configured to micro segregate IoT devices delivering added security.
4. Juniper Mist AI is fully geared up towards hyper-personalised future technologies
AI-driven networking also brings together enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, BLE and IoT together delivering unprecedented levels of security and paving the way for our hyper-personalised future. This enables enterprises to drive network performance and personalisation with real-time location services like wayfinding, proximity notifications, and asset location. Patented virtual BLE (vBLE) technology means that no battery beacons or manual calibration are required for these features to work, enabling deployment in many scenarios and lower maintenance requirements.
5. The performance statistics of AI-driven networking are undeniable
Yet, there’s nothing more compelling than hard data. You may think that measuring tangible metrics to determine the economic impact of installing AI-driven networking on an enterprise scale would be difficult to do. However, in 2021 global market research company Forrester did exactly that.
They found that enterprise companies gained:
- 50% faster network deployment time with AI-driven, automated and templated deployment
- 50% reduction in the mean time to resolve (MTTR) for network-related support tickets
The organisations they evaluated gained a 70% reduction in network-related tickets and an 85% reduction in total time spent resolving network-related tickets. This was aided by features like rapid root cause analysis, proactive anomaly detection, and automated event correlation. - Financial return on investment (ROI) of 34%
The ROI benefits were mainly derived from the boost in network users’ productivity, savings on legacy network infrastructure and licenses and the measurable reduction in network management costs.
In Conclusion
AI-driven networking is packed with features and functionality that make deployment and managing an enterprise size network easier, more predictable, resilient and secure. Powerful automation, AI functionality, resilient network architecture, as well as security and scalability will confidently lead your organisation into the next decade.
Axians UK’s deployment and management of AI-driven networking enables IT leaders to streamline their network operations processes and dramatically lower their OpEx costs, while gaining powerful benefits of centralised management, self-driving remediations and task automation. This is all achieved while delivering the best networking experience to their users.
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