Visionary: Juniper Networks

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Juniper networks was late to the SD-WAN market, but the established networking and security provider today provides Juniper SD-WAN, its flagship WAN edge offering that is made up of its SRX Series Services Gateways—physical, virtual and cloud—and Contrail Service Orchestration. The company is increasingly focused on integrating its Mist Marvis AI/ML engine to simplify Day 2 operations.

Gartner said that Niche Player of two years, Juniper, has a solid SD-branch solution that appeals to small footprint locations. The company still lacks cloud feature capabilities to simplify branch sites connecting to cloud workloads and has limited application performance optimization capabilities.