Gartner magic quadrant wired and wireless 2022

Gartner has named AI-driven networks vendor Juniper as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant, giving it the highest score for Completeness of Vision.

Juniper's Leader status for Indoor Location Services comes after the company was named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, receiving the highest scores in both categories for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

The move to Leader in this category also comes after Juniper was named a Visionary for the previous three consecutive years.

Additionally, Juniper is the only vendor named a Leader in both of these Gartner Magic Quadrant reports.

"Indoor location solutions use differing algorithms, techniques, frequencies and architectures to achieve the core functionality of the indoor location market, which is to provide the location of a static or mobile asset or person within one metre or three feet," Gartner says.

Juniper says it offers an entirely standards-based indoor location solution delivered through various cloud-hosted services tailored for specific use cases.

These include User Engagement, such as wayfinding and push notifications, Asset Visibility, Premium Analytics and Contact Tracing.

Juniper adds that its access points converge Wi-Fi, Internet of Things and a 16-element virtual BLE (vBLE) antenna array within a single device.

It says that doing this maximises functionality while minimising the need for costly overlay networks and battery beacons.

Juniper also integrates with various ecosystem partners via open APIs to strengthen other technologies like UWB and Lidar for additional location use cases.

"We are excited to see the Juniper Mist solution earn distinction in what many view as the preeminent analysis of both the wired/wireless access and indoor location spaces," Juniper Networks AI-driven Enterprise vice president and CTO Bob Friday says.

"As more enterprises look to integrate user engagement, facilities management, proximity tracing, asset tracking and other location-based services with their wireless LAN infrastructure, Juniper continues to stand out from the competition with a fully integrated, experience-first standard-based solution with proven scale, performance and ease of operations."

Juniper recently announced significant growth for the AI-driven Enterprise business, which includes wired/wireless access, indoor location services and SD-WAN driven by Mist AI.

The company adds that its Mist AI annual business doubled in 2021, with record Wi-Fi and access switching sales.

Juniper's Gartner Magic Quadrant success comes after cloud services provider Nipa chose the company to accelerate digital transformation across Thailand's businesses.

The partnership will see Juniper supporting Nipa to reinforce its current network infrastructure as the company expands and in anticipation of growing demand for endpoint flexibility in light of Thailand's rapidly transforming digital economy.

The upgrades will enable Nipa to establish a common set of policies and services across campuses, supporting Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs.

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2022, October 18

Enterprise LAN vendors providing access layer connectivity must respond to changing demands. Infrastructure and operations leaders should evaluate vendors based on their ability to provide an intelligent access layer capable of network automation that addresses all of the business requirements.

Strategic Planning Assumption

By 2022, more than 60% of IT organizations will use access layer network automation, up from less than 5% today.

Gartner’s view of the market is focused on the vendor’s ability to anticipate and integrate transformational technologies or approaches delivering on the future needs of end users. Gartner defines the wired and wireless LAN access infrastructure market as a market that consists of vendors supplying wired and wireless networking hardware and software that enables devices to connect to the enterprise wired LAN or Wi-Fi network. These devices may include laptops; smartphones, tablets and other mobile smart devices; networked office equipment; sensors and other Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints; and other fixed or mobile endpoints communicating to a wired switch port or a wireless access point at the edge of the enterprise infrastructure. This research does not cover wired and wireless access networking infrastructure for adjacent markets, such as public venues, small office/home office, commercial and industrial settings, or point-to-point solutions.

Enterprise wired and wireless local-area networking components include:

Software — Network service applications that are cloud-based or deployed on an appliance or virtual appliance, including but not limited to:
- - Network management
  - Guest access
  - Onboarding services
  - Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) security
  - Policy enforcement
  - Intrusion detection systems/wireless intrusion detection systems
  - Location services
  - Performance management
  - Network assurance
  - Application visibility
  - Network and vertical market analytics
  - Security including behavioral analysis
Hardware — Physical network elements including:
- - Wireless access points
  - Wired switches
  - Controllers, if needed

Vendors serve enterprises with three distinct go-to-market approaches:

- The vendor provides its own wired and wireless infrastructure components, network applications and services. Examples include Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Aruba, Extreme Networks and Huawei.
- The vendor primarily provides a specific connectivity option, such as either wired or wireless components. These vendors often focus on solutions addressing a unique set of market requirements, such as cloud-based management of a predominantly wireless LAN (WLAN) or a vertical market, such as retail or healthcare. Examples include Aerohive, Mist Systems and Mojo Networks.
- The vendor uses a strategic partner to provide some or all of the hardware or software components of an end-to-end access solution. These vendors provide differentiating functionality in the network applications for the combined solution. Examples include Dell and Juniper Networks.

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