As Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Manoj Leelanivas leads all aspects of product strategy and direction for Juniper. To further our transformation journey, Manoj aligns products with our go-to-market strategies and execution, including marketing operations. Since 2013, Manoj was President and CEO of Cyphort, an innovator in scale-out security analytics technology that was acquired by Juniper in late 2017. Prior to that, he held several key product management positions at Juniper, including Executive of Sales for Advanced Technologies for data center. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Automation Anywhere, a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Manoj holds a B. Tech in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, and is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Business Program.
‘While Mist started by bringing AI-driven operations to WLAN, Juniper and Mist together will leverage this AI-driven approach across the IT stack,’ says Manoj Leelanivas, chief product officer of Juniper Networks.
Juniper’s chief product officer Manoj Leelanivas explains the company's software strategies that include intent-based networking, AI, automation and the open-source SONiC network operating system.
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“With Juniper and Mist together, we will blaze the path to AI for IT in this era of digital transformation. With Mist, Juniper is one of a limited number of companies that can serve enterprises end to end. While Mist started by bringing AI-driven operations to WLAN, Juniper and Mist together will leverage this AI-driven approach across the IT stack.” (CRN, 2019)
“There is always the knowledge gap, skills gap — you don’t get enough people who know AI well, and training people isn’t easy. This is where Juniper has taken a brave new step in terms of reducing the time to get to be AI comfortable and actually AI native as soon as possible — this is our enterprise blueprint. We are able to deliver almost 9X the value compared to anything else out in the industry. We are really creating a self-driving network that is very easy to adopt.” (Silicon Angle, 2024)
“Networking has to be all about the experience … the AI-Native network is all about providing that" (Silicon Angle, 2024)