Black Box announced Wednesday that it has formed a Strategic Alliance Partnership with Juniper Networks. The partnership allows Black Box to sell and integrate Juniper Mist Wi-Fi and LAN cloud services.

Speaking of their new global partnership, Jim McKenna, vice president of strategic partnerships for Black Box, explains, “We’re tremendously excited to form a global alliance with Juniper. They are a recognized market leader in secure AI-driven networks.” He adds, “system deployment and integration into existing and complex infrastructures utilizing cloud-based services and AI operability is the future. Juniper has proven themselves to be the true innovators in that realm, so our partnership is a natural fit for our respective organizations and clients.”

Enterprise director of solutions at Black Box, Juned Noonari, continues, “global integrators are challenged foremost to provide ease-of-deployment, uniformity, and predictability. Our Wi-Fi as a Service (WaaS) provides a futuristic approach toward the highest-quality service and the ability to preempt problems. We know of no other company on the cutting edge of that technology than Juniper. Our partnership is a welcomed one.”

Thomas Desrues, vice president of alliances at Juniper, explains, “our industry-leading Mist AI and cloud technology utilizes a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science techniques to optimize user experiences and to simplify operations across the wireless, wired and SD-WAN domains. Black Box’s expertise in this space and trusted relationships with Fortune 1000 enterprise companies make Black Box an ideal partner as we move this technology into the forefront of what is truly possible.”