One team. One vision: Microservices and agentic AI power self-driving networks

[NetworkExperts]

HPE Networking unites HPE Aruba Networking Central and Mist AI with secure, AI self‑driving networks, cutting costs, boosting performance, and delivering rapid innovation.

he HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks brings together complementary domain solutions that together deliver complete compute, storage, security, and networking solutions from client to cloud.

Within networking, the architectural synergies between our two AIOps platforms—HPE Aruba Networking Central and HPE Juniper Networking Mist—are especially invaluable. Both are built on a microservices framework with agentic AI that brings exceptional scale, agility, and resiliency to our offerings. But perhaps even more importantly, this shared blueprint enables a develop once, deploy everywhere model for consistent innovation on both platforms, including crosspollination of key features to deliver common self-driving experiences for all customers and partners.  

This is very much like the LinkedIn app running on both Android and iPhone smartphones. Users expect (and get) consistent experiences across different platforms, and innovation continues on both by leveraging common engineering teams.

Microservices and agentic AI—Why they matter

Microservices function like modular Lego blocks, enabling the development of applications or their subcomponents as reusable units. Each microservice is built once and integrates with others through well-defined application programming interfaces (APIs), ensuring seamless connectivity across platforms. Hosted as independent services, they are accessible to other cloud-native environments with appropriate credentials and permissions. Whether handling telemetry collection, anomaly detection, policy enforcement, or other tasks, each microservice remains modular and independently deployable. This architecture provides elastic scalability, seamless fault isolation, and continuous innovation with updates that can be deployed rapidly without disrupting the entire platform.

Agentic AI involves independent systems that can plan and process complex tasks with minimal human intervention. Unlike traditional AI, which is often reactive or requires explicit instructions for every action, agentic AI is proactive, goal-driven, and can adapt to changing conditions. The benefits of agentic AI are increased productivity through automation, improved efficiency (including always-on operations), better decision-making, and greater personalization to individual user needs.

Microservices and agentic AI in action—New self-driving experiences

Today, HPE Networking is demonstrating the power of microservices and agentic AI with a variety of extraordinary announcements. We are driving both HPE Aruba Networking Central and HPE Juniper Networking Mist forward with significant artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and management integrations, resulting in exceptional user and operator experiences.

On the Juniper side, we have Marvis Actions as the self-driving framework across the full stack, which enables customers to proactively identify issues impacting user experiences and use automated actions to remediate them. In addition, we have a generalized large experience model (LEM) that provides detailed analysis of application experiences, such as video calls using Zoom or Teams, to rapidly identify and fix real-time issues, and predict future problems to avoid them entirely. We have brought both to HPE Aruba Networking Central!

On the HPE Aruba Networking side, we have robust client profiling capabilities that optimize ongoing experiences with deep insight into things such as operating system configuration and zero trust policy enforcement. In addition, HPE Aruba Networking Central has a phenomenal NOC view that provides seamless visibility into global network and application experiences. Both of these are now in HPE Juniper Networking Mist!

In addition, we are announcing the first wi-fi access point (AP) that can run on either HPE Aruba Networking Central or HPE Juniper Networking Mist. This maximizes customers’ flexibility and investment protection.

One team. One vision.

HPE Networking has a single team, with a single vision—to drive exceptional user experiences with secure AI self-driving networks. With industry-leading AIOps, a mature data lake, and a comprehensive portfolio from client to cloud, HPE networking continues to reduce trouble tickets, avoid truck rolls, and lower operating costs for our customers and partners.

We are not slowing down innovation on either HPE Aruba Networking Central or HPE Juniper Networking Mist. In fact, just the opposite—we continue to innovate at breakneck speed on both, bringing the power of secure, AI-native networks and self-driving operations to all of our constituents. 

HPE completed the acquisition of Juniper Networks only 5 months ago. In that time, we have done more to integrate our platforms than others have managed in over a decade. And we are just getting started!

To learn more about secure, AI-native networks and the journey to self-driving, visit  hpe.com/us/en/networking.html

Author:
Jeff Aaron,
VP of Marketing - Networking