Juniper Networks launches new AI-driven access switches

• Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) has launched new AI-driven access switches and enhanced AIOps capabilities for simpler wired/wireless deployments.
• The EX4100 series of enterprise-grade wired access switches is the latest addition to Juniper’s EX Switching portfolio.
• The switches use a modern microservices cloud and Mist AI to deliver outstanding performance, ease, flexibility and security for all enterprise access layer switching environments, including campus fabric architectures. Mist AI is said to expedite deployment times with zero touch provisioning and automated workflows, and provide rapid troubleshooting with full stack event correlation, proactive anomaly detection and self-driving network actions.
• In addition, Juniper (JNPR) has expanded its Wired Assurance, Wireless Assurance and Marvis cloud services with more AI-driven insights to minimize wireless management costs and maximize end user experiences, including new automated AP placement/orientation verification and new prescriptive actions to address common Microsoft client, DHCP and wired authentication issues.
• JNPR shares have dropped ~3% pre-market