Session Smart Networking Datasheet

The Session Smart Router combines a service-centric control plane and a session-aware data plane to offer IP routing, feature-rich policy management, improved visibility, and proactive analytics. 

The Session Smart Router also provides native zero-trust security, leveraging hypersegmentation. It also includes several security features:

• Service-centric, tenant-based security architecture: The unique design enables the Session Smart Router to understand sessions and perform vital business operations. 
• Zero trust security: The Session Smart Router follows the principle of “deny-by-default,” which uses a series of checkpoints to validate legitimate network traffic. 
• Firewall capabilities: The Session Smart Router provides Layer 3/ Layer 4 network firewall functionality. 
• IDS/IPS and URL filtering: Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) and URL filtering capabilities are available through the Advanced Security Pack. 
• Security at its core: The advanced design of the Session Smart Router replaces the traditional routing plane with one built for security from the ground up.

Table 1 details the key features of the Session Smart Router. 

The Session Smart Conductor is a centralized management and policy engine that provides orchestration, administration, zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), monitoring, and analytics for distributed Session Smart Routers—while maintaining a network-wide, multi-tenant service, and policy data model. Session Smart Conductor features multiple, flexible deployment models, from on-premises to private or public cloud.

Alternatively, Session Smart Routers can be operated and orchestrated through the Juniper Mist Cloud. Mist AI delivers unprecedented automation using a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, and data sciences techniques to save time, maximize IT productivity, and deliver the best experience to digital users.

Juniper Mist WAN Assurance is built on the Mist AI Cloud and delivers full life cycle management and operations, including AI-driven insights, anomaly detection, and root cause identification that focuses on end users’ experience. For Day-0 and Day-1 operations, WAN Assurance also provides orchestration, administration, and ZTP for Session Smart Routers. See the WAN Assurance Datasheet for more information.

The SSR Series of appliances provide the hardware foundation for the Juniper AI-Driven SD-WAN solution: 

• The SSR100 line includes small and medium branch platform to support SD-WAN in distributed locations 
• The SSR1000 line includes platforms for large branch, and small, medium, large and x-large data center and campus deployments

Deployment Locations are shown in Table 2, along with links to the relevant datasheets for more information. 

The Session Smart Conductor can run on all major public cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. 

Juniper ensures operational excellence by optimizing the network to maintain required levels of performance, reliability, and availability. For more details, please visit www.juniper.net. 

At Juniper Networks, we are dedicated to dramatically simplifying network operations and driving superior experiences for end users. Our solutions deliver industry-leading insight, automation, security and AI to drive real business results. We believe that powering connections will bring us closer together while empowering us all to solve the world’s greatest challenges of well-being, sustainability and equality.

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