Now, you would think that starting a new job would be a daunting prospect but not as daunting as starting a new job with your first task being to redesign and upgrade the core network.

Like the Wild West of the 1800s, today’s campuses are becoming lawless places. Employees and visitors roam free armed with multiple devices, user owned and company supplied, and expect to connect to the corporate network, wherever and whenever they want to.

A security breach on LTE can ruin Telco’s Brand Reputation

A few weeks ago horse meat traces where found in multiple products sold in Europe. Some well known food brands have been identified but probably the one that suffered the most has been a famous furniture chain! 
Do you want to be the first LTE provider serving horse meatballs? Consider LTE Backhaul Security...

Trust.

Subjective, emotional, personal yet crucial that it exists for inter-personal or business to business transactions to be conducted on an ongoing basis. 

The first curious thing about trust is that in many ways it is not a monetarily expensive thing to establish. It is built on the emotional pillars of integrity, authenticity, and transparency.  Those pillars can and often do take time to establish but once established they provide a strong foundation for that ongoing transactional engagement.

Yesterday was Day 2 of Infosec13 in London and it was great to see and feel the buzz on the Juniper booth where we have been sharing our latest innovative security solutions with the show delegates.

If you can't make the show, and with my Data Center hat firmly on, here’s a quick overview of what the exitement is all about in Data Center security from Juniper....

Enterprises are facing new needs and challenges; those may translate into new opportunities for Managed Service Providers. But, are telecom providers well positioned to capture those opportunities?

It gives me great pleasure to announce Juniper Networks and Imtech ICT at Infosec, April 23rd – 25th 2013, on stand E61. We will unveil our groundbreaking security innovations for 2013. We’ll walk you through live demonstrations showcasing our scaled-up protections for data centers and networks of any size and explain how we’re shutting down attackers on a global scale.

My parents acquired a Samsung SmartTV a year ago without paying much attention on the ‘smarts’ of the device. A few weeks ago, after a (never ending) family lunch at their home, I started to play with their new TV and configured the SmartTV section. Only after them alerting menot to break anything, they suddenly discovered a window to a brand new world that I just enabled. How long did it take last time they tried to unsuccessfully connect their laptop? With the magic of the SmartTV button, they found an easy way to connect to Internet content, VoD and even family pictures, although the system is still far from perfect.

Big data is big business and one of the fastest growing areas of the ICT market. But why should you care about the network when you are planning you big data application deployments? As long as you have the right connectivity and ‘enough’ bandwidth then what more is there to consider? Well, quite a lot as it turns out.

On 25^th January 2012, the EU Commission announced a “comprehensive reform of the EU's 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy”. Citing the rapid deployment and technological advancements made over the past 10 years that have fundamentally changed the way data is collected, used and stored; the announcement outlined four proposed areas of regulation:

• the right to be forgotten – helping to manage data protection risks online so people can delete their data if there is no need to retain it
• explicit not implied consent – consent will have to be given to process personal data rather than assume it can be used
•  right of data access and portability – easy access to an individual’s own data and easy access to transfer personal data from one service provider to another
• 24 hour notification of a data breach – organisations will have an obligation to notify the national authority on serious data breaches if feasible within 24 hours.

Commentary from various Executives at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, representing the entire mobile telecommunications ecosystem, left me feeling that we too, are on the verge of a “fiscal cliff” in our industry.

SDN has reached a phenomenal resonance in the network industry … to the point where everyone and everything recognize himself/itself in this new “thing”.

But what is this ”thing” really? A technology? A use case? A framework? An architecture?

For me it is an architectural paradigm that opens a debate for all pieces of the infrastructure, from the access network to the datacenter. It is a recognition from the industry that we should ask ourselves if what we built is the right thing to accelerate innovation, maximize the flexibility and reduce cost.

TMX Atrium’s secret sauce is not one thing; it’s a combination of things. It’s all built around our ability to deliver connectivity and bandwidth in a format and a style focused purely on the financial services community.

While the vast majority of our clients are brokers, an increasing proportion of our customer base or connectivity base, are the venues themselves. The ever-increasing number of non-cash equity venues can be attributed to the increasing use of machine to machine trading across multiple asset classes; what has been applied in cash equity is now being applied to other asset classes. As machines act faster and think quicker than humans, they produce more volume, which requires more bandwidth; putting added load on machines and the networks that transport them. Our job as an infrastructure provider is to transport all of this data to interested parties and to ensure that as the demand continues to increase, the infrastructure continues to scale accordingly.

Fresh faced and keen in my shiny new job I will be attending MPLS World Congress 2013 in Paris next week. So, I decided to take a look at why the organisation has attended this event over the past decade. What was the Juniper message is to the technical community of MPLS WC attendees and why do people find Juniper Networks so compelling?

Over the past few years attendees to the event have heard about topics such as understanding how IPV6 has enables seamless and scalable migration and meeting the challenges of cloud computing, today we are poised to discuss SDN and the opportunities and challenges it brings. In all of those discussions Juniper has had a place for two reasons:

As one of the multiple initiatives that we are presenting in the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2013,  the new vDay One book series, also known as the Junos Learning Sphere, launches with the upcoming publication of Introduction to BGP Multicast VPN.

This new collection offers an enhanced learning experience focused on hands-on practice. How? By using the unique Junosphere environment.