AI will completely automate the network within five years, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim boasted during the company’s Global Summit this week.
“I truly believe that just as there is this need today for a self-driving automobile, the future is around a self-driving network where humans literally have to do nothing,” he said. “It's probably weird for people to hear the CEO of a networking company say that… but that's exactly what we should be wishing for.”
Rahim believes AI-driven automation is the latest phase in computer networking’s evolution, which began with the rise of TCP/IP and the internet, was accelerated by faster and more efficient silicon, and then made manageable by advances in software.
“Collectively, we as an industry are sitting on a goldmine of information, and yet it is untapped,” Rahim said. “We as a planet are accumulating data at an unprecedented rate. Something like 90 percent of all the data in the world today has been accumulated in just the last two years alone.”
But extracting value from that data has proven difficult, he said. “There is no way that any human can tap into that data and do anything useful with it on their own. It has to be left to machines and artificial intelligence.”
And according to Rahim, AI has the potential to vastly accelerate the deployment of new services, detect and mitigate network disruptions before they impact users, and, by extension, reduce the oversight required to support and manage large networks.
Juniper has spent millions of dollars on mergers and acquisitions to this end. In 2019, the company acquired Mist, an up-and-coming wired and wireless LAN vendor, n ..
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