April 2, 2019

Mist has a highly differentiated wireless solution that will strengthen and complement Juniper’s existing software-defined enterprise portfolio.

As Rami mentioned in his blog post on March 4, enterprise IT is shifting from mere service management (ITSM) to being a strategic enabler that unlocks new workflows and business models. The acquisition of Mist expands Juniper’s enterprise portfolio to enable technology in the wireless arena and ushers in an AI-driven solution for managing IT operations.

With Mist, Juniper is one of a limited number of companies that can serve enterprise end-to-end. While Mist started by bringing AI-driven operations to WLAN, Juniper and Mist together will leverage this AI-driven approach across the IT stack.

It’s also a good time to reiterate that Mist will retain its commitment to an open framework so that customers can leverage whichever elements (including many of our competitors’ products) make sense for their architecture. With that, Juniper is excited about being able to bring a full end-to-end software-defined enterprise solution with an AI-driven solution that makes IT operations simpler and reduces total ownership costs for our customers. The powerful combination of cloud-based management, automated workflows and AI-driven operations make the self-healing network a reality, formerly thought to be impossible.

Juniper’s priority for the near term is to ensure that Mist, as a Juniper company, maintains its growth trajectory and continues to develop products that redefine wireless. The company will also be sharing Mist’s extraordinary AI-driven wireless solution to a wider audience of Juniper customers.

There are no major changes to how customers buy Mist or Juniper products. Customers will still be able to order the same great products. Similarly, there will be no changes to how we manage partners in the short term. The Mist team will remain a separate operating unit within Juniper and we will continue to leverage Mist’s strong and growing brand.

With Juniper and Mist together, we will blaze the path to AI for IT™ in this era of digital transformation!

Please find the Mist platform overview below: