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...

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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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...

At a very coarse level, the two aspects of information transfer that impact performance the most have historically been signal propagation delays and information serialization delays. At large distances, serialization delays (the time it takes to encode an information bit on to a signal) have become irrelevant. Compare, for example, a serialization delay of 1x10-11 seconds for 10GE to the 20x10-3 seconds for a signal to propagate across a large continent; add another order of magnitude reduction for serialization when considering 100GE. Read more...