Primary and Secondary
(K-12) Education
A reliable network is today’s classroom blackboard. School districts must maximize their limited resources to support connected experiences for students, facility, administrators, and parents while protecting their data. Juniper Network's AI-Native Networking provides school districts with an agile networking foundation for secure and highly reliable connectivity to ensure uninterrupted teaching and learning.
How Juniper can help
Continuous connectivity is critical between people, districts, and schools. Juniper AI-Native Networking makes network deployment simpler to conserve limited district resources while delivering predictable and reliable performance. We help you navigate discounted programs, such as the U.S. E-Rate program, to gain discounted internet access and connectivity services.
Wireless enhances the learning experience
Wi-Fi networks connect users in the class and across your district. Mist AI is your Wi-Fi support guru, offering district IT teams less troubleshooting and more time for innovating the classroom experience. Mist AI’s customizable service levels, automated workflows, and self-driving network operations enable the proactive identification and rapid resolution of network problems. Anomaly detection and predictive analytics can detect and fix IT issues before students and teachers even know that they exist.
Create a foundation for AI
Experiencing soaring numbers of devices, integration headaches, lack of insight into trouble tickets, and tight IT department head count resources and budgets? School districts across the country, like the Clear Creek Independent School District, are discovering how AI can help them overcome the unique challenges of primary and secondary school (K-12) networks.
Build reliable broadband connections
Juniper Networks is ready to help schools and libraries build affordable, fast, and secure broadband connections. Public funding sources, including the E-Rate program, can multiply your buying power. Juniper can help you acquire the funding needed to accelerate deployment of networks that support engaged learning.
Public sector contracts
For school districts, the process of procuring network equipment can be as complex and challenging as it is vital to their mission.
Frequently Asked Questions
Juniper’s AI-Native K-12 Networking solutions help schools build their campus network for the next decade, creating a foundation for learning that is secure and self-driving. Juniper Mist AI offers nonstop, limitless scalability with reliable, predictable connectivity that enables educators to deliver instruction, students to learn, and supports operations that ensure student and campus safety.
Just because a network is up and running does not mean your users are having a good experience. The network is central to student learning, instruction, online assessment, and situational awareness, so it must be managed for quality, not merely connectivity. Using Mist, more than 120 pre- and post-connection states are tracked, giving every school network administrator awareness at any moment into whether a teacher, student, or staff is having a good or bad user experience. Bad conditions are immediately diagnosed and accurately identified for administrators and, where possible, automatically corrected, often before the user notices an issue.
Juniper’s AI-Native Networking is comprised of Juniper EX Series Ethernet and QFX Series switches for the wired infrastructure, Mist Wireless Access Points for the wireless infrastructure, and Juniper SRX Series Firewalls. For mission-critical, high performance school districts, our internet gateways, Juniper MX Series Universal Routers, are the platform of choice. Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, Juniper Marvis® Virtual Network Assistant, and Juniper Mist Access Assurance are Mist services built on a modern microservices cloud architecture to help deliver exceptional user and device experiences supporting digital learning and superior AI for IT operations (AIOps). For districts with limited IT staffing, Juniper Mist AIOps has helped some experience up to 90% fewer networking trouble tickets, up to 85% reduction in networking OpEx, and up to 50% less time to reach networking incident resolution.
E-Rate Category One projects require upgrading network equipment to boost broadband connection capacity while E-Rate Category Two projects seek to modernize the district’s campus wired, wireless, and security infrastructure. Whatever your need, Juniper has E-Rate-eligible solutions to fulfill the needs of applicants, from a single-school campus to large school districts and libraries. Juniper E-Rate-eligible solutions enable affordable broadband connections and are cost-competitive, helping applicants maximize their budgets. Equally important, the Juniper Mist network solution gives applicants the advantage with lower and unmatched OpEx through AIOps. Applicants experience faster deployment, fewer networking trouble tickets, reduced operational complexity, and faster time to resolve networking issues.
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