Digital experience twins have arrived for enterprise networks, and it’s changing everything about how IT teams manage infrastructure. Meet Marvis Minis — Juniper Networks’ groundbreaking digital twin technology that acts as your virtual user, constantly testing network connectivity and application performance when real users aren’t present.
Juniper’s Kumar Putta Swamy and Shirley Wu join us to explore how this game-changing innovation helps network administrators validate
The impact for customers has been substantial. Already deployed across 16,000 sites, Marvis Minis have
What sets this technology apart is its complete client-to-cloud visibility and integration with Juniper’s Marvis® AI engine. The system automatically detects configuration changes, builds appropriate test plans, executes validations, and feeds results back to Marvis for correlation and root cause analysis. Even more impressive —
For network teams struggling with changes that break applications in unexpected ways, Marvis Minis offers a proactive solution that identifies problems before users ever experience them. Ready to see how your network performs when nobody’s watching? Discover how digital experience twins are transforming network operations and user experience.
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Key points covered:
Introduction to Marvis Minis
Benefits of Marvis Minis
Examples of Marvis Minis in action
Technical details of Marvis Minis
Deployment and updates
Customer use cases
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Where to find Kumar?
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumar-putta-swamy/
Where to find Shirley?
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirley-wu-ab32171/
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We hope you enjoyed this episode!
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Chapters
Introduction to Marvis Minis: Kumar explains that Marvis Minis are embedded functions on Juniper devices that simulate end -user transactions to understand user connectivity and application performance. 0:27
Benefits of Marvis Minis: Kumar highlights that Marvis Minis save time and money by automating network validation, eliminating the need for physical presence to test network changes. 1:01
Examples of Marvis Minis in action: Kumar provides examples of how Marvis Minis identified configuration issues post-change, preventing potential disruptions in retail environments. 3:08
Technical details of Marvis Minis: Shirley discusses the end-to-end innovation from firmware to cloud intelligence, ensuring customer networks are monitored without interrupting primary functionalities. 4:29
Deployment and updates: Shirley mentions that Marvis Minis features are automatically installed and updated without requiring firmware upgrades or additional hardware. 7:23
New features for 2025: Kumar introduced new capabilities for Marvis Minis, including client-to-cloud performance monitoring and enhanced correlation to identify network issues before users experience them. 10:04
Customer use cases: Kumar and Shirley shared how customers use Marvis Minis for network validation during configuration changes and to monitor critical applications’ performance. 13:05
