Building, deploying, operating, managing, and troubleshooting a data center network can be difficult, expensive, and resource intensive. According to a 2019 Gartner report, simplifying IT infrastructure is the Number 1 strategic priority for businesses today. Juniper® Apstra has been purpose-built to automate the full life cycle of the data center network.

This paper describes some of the most difficult issues confronting data center networking teams today and explains how Apstra’s architecture addresses each of them.