“Best of breed always wins, and the same is true for AI datacenter compute, storage, networking and operations. Juniper is investing heavily in Ops4AI Labs, JVD and new promotional programs to ensure our customers and partners have maximum choice, flexibility and stability in how they build their complete Gen AI solutions,” said Praveen Jain, SVP and GM, AI and Datacenter, Juniper Networks.
“Now is the perfect time to build high-performance, low-latency, multi-vendor AI data center solutions that are simple, fast and economical to deploy and operate.”
Today, data centers serve as the foundation for a growing AI ecosystem. But this technology uses vast amounts of power and energy around the world, and the industry is under pressure to become more sustainable. As a result, companies in this sector must become more innovative to safely meet the demands of power-hungry AI applications.
Streamlining AI Performance
Openness and collaboration are essential to Juniper's networking mission. The company is proposing how to move AI data centers from their current early adoption stage to effective mass market deployment. End-to-end operation of a multi-vendor AI data center infrastructure is challenging, leading to vertically integrated AI data center solutions with vendor lock-in and lead-time challenges.
Switching, routing, storage, and compute solutions from leading vendors, along with automated operations through new Juniper Validated Designs (JVDs), accelerate time to value for deploying AI clusters.
Juniper Apstra offers key Ops4AI capabilities including intent-based networking, multi-vendor switch management, workload awareness, AIOps proactive actions, and Gen AI conversational interface. Juniper's complete networking for AI solution enables customers and partners to accelerate AI training job completion times, reduce latency during inference, and increase GPU utilization while reducing deployment times by up to 85% and, in some cases, reducing operational costs by up to 90%.
AI has transformed data centers around the world, but the technology also demands higher performance and scalable infrastructure. To simplify AI clusters and further maximize network performance, Juniper is adding new Ops4AI software extensions to provide unique value to customers.
