Item: Juniper Paragon Pathfinder
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paragon Pathfinder (formerly Northstar Controller)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This amazing software called Paragon Pathfinder, which was formerly called NorthStar controller, really helped our organization's operation team to Proactively monitor and Dynamic handling of production workloads. This helped our organization achieve an optimized, highly resilient production networking system that was robust and efficient in every possible way. You can easily automate the flow or provide constraints on your existing network infrastructure to gain more control and better security.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Real-time monitoring and management of MPLS networks was the key feature that made it a no-brainer.
We wrote several automation scripts which helped us translate traffic from the router, switch, nodes, and links on our network devices.
The ability to reroute traffics with a click of a button or on a scheduled event is one of the best features.

Cons

The learning curve involved in writing scripts for network automation is a bit steep.
There should be a dedicated community of users who can share scripts, thoughts, and insights on how to use the software's capabilities to the fullest.
Very few pricing options.

Most Important Features

Network optimization.
Cloud native support.
Helps orchestrate transport network slicing.

Return on Investment

This software managed to get our ROI within few months of usage.
Some improvement is needed regarding support.
I guess the rest everything is up to the mark and makes you future ready.

Alternatives Considered

PicOS and CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions

The flexibility and the cloud-native platform and support make it best for our organization to handle the network capabilities to the fullest. The competitors failed to provide a lot of features that are built into this product. We chose this product as we found it the best out there, and the pricing is quite competitive.

Key Insights

Do you think Juniper Paragon Pathfinder delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Juniper Paragon Pathfinder's feature set?

Yes

Did Juniper Paragon Pathfinder live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Juniper Paragon Pathfinder go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Juniper Paragon Pathfinder again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Azure App Service, GitHub, AWS CloudTrail

Likelihood to Recommend

In our organization, we have a team of around 100 network operation engineers managing our network connectivity /firewall rules and inbound connections for our clients all over the world in a 24/7 model. After the implementation of the Paragon Pathfinder, the manual tasks have cooled down to almost 50%. We have set up automated downtimes and rules for network optimization. The cloud-native platform is extremely flexible, which lets us work and connect with on-prem networks along with public and private clouds Vnets.

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