Greetings from Day Two of the 2010 RSA Conference! Yesterday, I outlined our activities at the show and today, have some exciting news to share. Earlier today, we announced that Juniper has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Reader Trust Award as the company with the Best Endpoint Security Solution. Read more...

Every March, thousands of security professionals flock to the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference gathering. It’s a great place to network, get educated and show off your company’s latest and greatest wares. Read more...

I am sure many of you have either read or know of the concepts outlined by Thomas L. Friedman in his book The World Is Flat. It seems more and more that Friedman’s point of view is a reality of modern life. However what is even more fascinating to me is that just as technology enabled an ever flatter world, this changed world is now creating new pressures and requirements on technology solutions. One such example is a renaissance in the world of Networking: “Flat is back!” Read more...

MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010 Day 2 - By David Noguer Bau, Head of Carrier Ethernet Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks. It was an early start to the second day of the MPLS World Congress in Paris. Bright and early at 08:30am, I listened to one of the keynotes by Juniper’s Dr. Yakov Rekhter followed later by Kireeti Kompella, well known for his work on contributing to MPLS standards, who led a compelling presentation about circuit vs packet transport. One of the conclusions from his session was that any new network plan has to consider both of these elements. We also had a lot of keen visitors to the Juniper booth, eager to see the new MX80 3D Universal Edge Router. The new Junos Space Activator is also showcasing on the stand. This includes a unique graphical user interface to do point-and-click provisioning for carrier Ethernet. It’s a great opportunity to have products such as this to introduce to the market Read more...

MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010 Day 1 - By David Noguer Bau, Head of Carrier Ethernet Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks. Against a backdrop of snow the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress kicked off today - with key sessions and tutorials getting us all up to speed on current MPLS issues. Today’s sessions consisted of three tutorials, based around MPLS technology, Metro Ethernet and mobile backhaul. The conference is only just getting started and from what we’ve already seen, this year is promising to be a pretty busy one! Read more...

I'm excited to be speaking at this year's GSMA Mobile World Congress on the topic Core Network Transition and Service Enablers. And given the current mobility landscape, I have no doubt that this year's event will be one of the most exciting to date. Read more...

Okay, you may ask why I was speaking with my teenager about Junos Space. Fair enough. I was sharing the new branding with my daughter who loves graphic arts and she was curious about “Junos Space.” Read more...

I talked about green networking’s impacts on reducing the environmental impact and profit growth in my last blog post. I believe wholeheartedly that being “green” doesn’t mean it’s only about being socially and environmentally conscious. For any service provider reliant on its network (everyone), being “green” should also have a direct correlation into cost savings. In the simplest of terms, less power while not impacting performance can only benefit your company. Read more...

In addition to being a Juniper employee, I am also a college professor. This gives me a unique perspective on an interesting trend permeating our educational system. I challenge my students to think and not accept the status quo. It would be comical if not for the shocking regularity I see the concern on my students faces when they get an assignment that doesn’t dictate page or word length. Read more...

What does James Cameron's latest blockbuster 'Avatar' mean for the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN)? At first glance not a lot, however there are some striking parallels which allow Avatar to test some of our broadband product assumptions. Read more...

A month ago, I recommended a new book – The Sustainable Network – for anyone interested in a primer on the role of the network in enabling a sustainable planet. I also indicated that we (I and other Juniper colleagues) would begin to share our thoughts in this area. Over the next few weeks, I’d like to provide some insight into how companies which are reliant on their network infrastructure – in other words, pretty much everyone – can deploy an efficient and powerful network while also reducing their environmental impact. Read more...

During my customer meetings one question that frequently comes up is on market adoption of 10GBASE-T. The question is very valid. After all if we look at Ethernet's history, 10M, 100M and 1GbE product adoption really took off after the arrival of standards that transport these technologies over UTP copper. Read more...

Even before the global financial meltdown of 2009, the financial services industry (FSI) was saddled with an alphabet soup of compliance requirements. Given recent events in financial services, there’s no doubt compliance requirements and additional legislation are looming at the state, federal and global levels. Read more...

Today, O'Reilly Media released  the latest book for the Juniper Networks Technical Library - The Sustainable Network by Sarah Sorenson. The book does a wonderful job answering the question of "what technologies do we need to solve the complex environmental, economic, social and political challenges facing us today?" As this thought-provoking book reveals, one tool for enacting changes is already at our fingertips: the global network.

Today Cisco announced a series of updated Integrated Services Router (ISR G2) products for branch office applications. The ISR line has been on the market for over 5 years now and we've been expecting new branch products from Cisco for quite some time. And since this announcement follows the release of our own award winning SRX Series Services Gateways for the branch by a couple of quarters, I could be accused of being more interested than most . Read more...

There certainly is a lot of hype around Cloud Computing. It ranks at the very top of the overused terms thrown around by the marketeers. Do a Google News search and you'll see more than 6,000 unique stories in the past month on cloud computing. However the concept behind the cloud is quite real. Very simply, it represents the natural evolution of IT infrastructure - towards virtualization. Read more...

As with all good things, the CE World Congress comes to an end today. The main part of the agenda was the MEF 21 Award Ceremony, which took place this morning. Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is responsible for setting up test specifications for several standards and certifies them. More information about this process can be found here. Read more...

Last evening, as you may remember me mentioning yesterday, we had a really enjoyable MEF award dinner last night. It was great to have a fabulous chat with our partners and customers. As it is to be expected of such things, it went on very late and the adrenalin kick didn’t quite subside till this morning when our forums reconvened. Read more...

Today is the first “official” day at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, with the sun shining on Berlin to make the setting perfect. The weather wasn’t the only thing that left me feeling very ebullient today, as we also took part in some very interesting panels. Read more...

Hello everyone. The countdown is finally over. David here on the first (private) day of the CEWC 2009 in Berlin, the largest event for the Ethernet networks and service industry. This year, the congress is all about bringing Value-Added Services to the Carrier Ethernet environment. Read more...

I recently met with a customer who explained a concept they called rack-and-roll that is made possible by Virtual Chassis technology for the EX4200 line of switches. Read more...

What a way to end Broadband World Forum Europe 2009! Today, Juniper Networks hosted a panel discussion looking at evolving the data center model and was also present on a further three panels. As the chairman of Juniper's panel discussion, data centers are a topic close to my heart. Indeed, with the growth of content-rich services such as IPTV and Web2.0 over the past four years, most of the data on the network is hosted in data centers, which makes the topic particularly interesting for today's telecoms sector. It certainly sparked some interesting ideas from the panelists! Read more...

Following yesterday's Infovision award win read about the win here and the announcement of our joint venture with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) that addresses the Carrier Ethernet market today read the press release, the Juniper stand (#417) has been abuzz with customers and prospects keen to know more about the offering. The main question that we've been asked is why the solution is relevant to end users. A good challenge that I thought I'd tackle in today's post. Read more...

Fiber to the home (or FTTH as it is more affectionately called in our industry) has been a point of discussion for many years and the topic popped up again at this year's Broadband World Forum Europe earlier today. This is not least because Europe's FTTH Council produced its annual survey showing that more than two million people in Europe now have fiber broadband direct to their home - an 18% growth over the last survey compiled in late 2008. Read more...

It won't have escaped our industry peers that today was the opening of the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 in sunny Paris. And it seems the sunshine has inspired the keynote speakers with positive viewpoints on our industry. The keynote address that impressed me the most was from Jean-Philippe Vanot, Senior Executive Vice President, Innovation and Marketing at Orange, who discussed how the ICT industry could provide a solution to the financial crisis. Indeed, this picks up from a theme initiated by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in an August 2009 report that said that ICTs had been hard hit by the financial crisis but that they are to play a key role in the recovery. Internet related businesses are faring better than the electronics or semiconductor industries but on the whole, investments in R&D and innovation are clearly seen as necessary for future competitiveness and the development of new growth areas. This in turn leads to job generation and a positive impact on GDP. Read more...

Crack open the champagne! I am delighted to share with you that Juniper Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) have won the "Network and Services Management and Operations" category of the Infovision Awards 2009. The awards were announced today at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 in Paris. Read more...

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Network engineering is a constantly evolving art. The capabilities and features supported on routers, switches and security devices are ever changing and moving forward; each new protocol and capability is developed to support a new user activity, a new type of traffic, or to solve a newly emerging problem. Read more...

When I think about the Broadband Stimulus programs which the US federal government is currently funding, I realize that it’s not just about getting bits-and-bytes out to underserved areas, or creating middle-mile networks to reach key locations: universities, hospitals, libraries, county seats, research and technology centers, etc. It’s about connecting more parts of the US society, so we can collaborate better, communicate better, and share services over a shared network. Read more...

In my last blog entry Parallelism and the role of 100GE I discussed how for some classes of computation/networking there is a symbiosis between the parallelism of a computation engine (a server, desktop, handset) and the effective parallelism of a network: the ability to send more bits within a given time interval by increasing the serialization rate. The comments made there were most directly relevant to transactional processing / short messages. Read more...