Juniper

Cisco, Juniper should do well in the current downturn, says Goldman Sachs

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:33:34 -0400

Goldman Sachs gave a glimmer of hope to Cisco and Juniper today as Simona Jankowski, an analyst at the investment firm said Cisco is likely to outgrow its peers during the current downturn as well as in the long term, reports Reuters.

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Ugly Cousin

Schratboy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:05:04 -0400

Cisco look out? This is silly. Cisco has done a masterful job in becoming the 1,845 pound hairless gorilla. Juniper is a very small primate by comparison. Today, buying a rival or complementary company is accepted practice in lieu of innovation and hard work. Throw a few billion dollars at them and suddenly you've got several thousand new clients and some new gear to integrate. The folly of trying to munge code into a single base will keep the investors, analysts and customers spinning until the next magic act is formulated.

Cisco watch out: Juniper reported to be beefing up its wireless offerings with an acquisition

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:21:58 -0400

Sources have it that Juniper is looking to acquire a WLAN networking company to help beef up its profile in the wireless networking space, according to a report on FT.com. The paper reports that Juniper is eyeing Aruba or Meru as possible suitors.

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Are you kidding?

stiennon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:48:11 -0400

How do you compare Fortinet to Juniper and Crossbeam? Juniper does not have a single box that can deliver AV, IPS, Firewall, routing, SSL VPN, and URL filtering. You get a subset of that. Crossbeam flies in the face of the UTM value proposition: reduced vendors, reduced complexity, reduced cost. Fortinet has all those features and is truly "unified".

Juniper sprints ahead of Cisco in edge routers

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:38:25 -0400

Cisco's lack of any new edge routers is hurting the company as it competes with Juniper in the service provider space, according to this story in Investor's Business Daily. The story reports that Cisco revealed slower growth in its router business, which grew 8% year-over-year in Cisco's Q4, down from 14% growth in Q3. "That growth far lagged recent results of No. 2 networking gear maker Juniper Networks.

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Getting help in JUNOS

jdoyle — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:05:21 -0400

I discussed in the previous post how candidate configurations, explicit commits, and rollbacks greatly increase the reliability of configuration changes in JUNOS and reduce the risk of configuration mistakes. Heaven knows if there is a mistake to be made, I'm likely to make it.

Another nice feature for klutzy typists such as myself is that rather than waiting until you hit return at the end of a configuration statement to check for syntax errors, JUNOS checks syntax word-by-word – that is, every time you enter a word into a line and hit the space bar, it checks the syntax.

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Web retailer slashes support costs by switching from Cisco to Juniper

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:06:32 -0400

By swapping out Cisco gear for Juniper equipment, Amazingmail.com trimmed down support cost from $48,000 for Cisco to less than $6,000 per year for Juniper. By selling off the two-year-old Cisco hardware, Amazingmail.com says the project will pay for itself in eight months. The Scottsdale, Ariz., firm with about 90 employees spread over three sites made the swap during the first quarter of the year with no interruption to its online custom printing and mailing operations, says Larry Prine, lead systems administrator for the company.

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What's the point?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:14:22 -0400

Couldn't have Amazingmail.com simply swapped out the two 6500's with Cisco stackables that have an included warranty with them and saved the same amount of money? Was their problems with the Cisco switches and ASA's (outside the fact they weren't trained on the equipment) causing them to swap out? If they had support from Cisco, and couldn't get a feature to work, did they open a case with Cisco (who's support organization is the best in the industry if you know how to work with them). The article seems like a shameless plug Network World as been posting for lots of vendors these days (I seem them for Cisco as well on other products). It would be nice to see something with much stronger analysis and understanding that readers can actually get value out of.

Welcome to the NAP party, Juniper!

toddhooper — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:42:50 -0400

Nice to see another vendor with native support for NAP! I believe that makes two of us now. Todd http://www.napera.com

Networking now a two-horse race

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:58:16 -0400

Juniper's solid second quarter results announced yesterday has given analysts a glimmer of hope in the softening economy. Juniper's results beat consensus estimates as the Cisco rival posted an increase in sales of 32% and a leap in profit of 40%. Juniper also boosted its outlook for the third quarter and the rest of the year.

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Juniper hires Microsoft veteran as CEO

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:17:53 -0400

The little blemish on his resume of failing to pull off Microsoft's bid to aquire Yahoo didn't deter Juniper from naming Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as CEO, replacing Scott Kriens who continues as chairman. According to an IDG News Services story, news of Johnson's departure from Microsoft comes just a week after the company released financial earnings dragged down by its online services group. Microsoft will split up the group he ran.

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The "American Idol" of WAN Acceleration

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:51:55 -0400

Results of our WAN acceleration product feedback are in, and here is a quick summary of what we heard. For starters, if this were the application delivery system version of American Idol, Riverbed’s Steelhead would win.

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Juniper's enterprise switch could give Cisco pause

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:46:24 -0400

Network World tested Juniper's first effort in enterprise switching, the EX 4200 and after doing so the testers had this word of warning, "Cisco take note: Juniper's new EX 4200 switch not only fills a hole in a leading competitor's product line, but also represents a credible alternative for enterprise access switching."

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Real deal or PR move? Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft form new security consortium

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:27:37 -0400

Here's an interesting idea that could either be a stroke a genius or rather lame. Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft today announced that they have formed a consortium to address multi-product security threats. If it works, it will be a source of vendor cooperation that stops the finger pointing. Instead of a not-our-problem attitude by individual vendors, the united group will march into the dark underworld and crush complex multi-product attacks as if stepping on oh-so-many cockroaches.

Or not.

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Catalyst 6500: The End Isn't Nigh...

Mark_Lewis — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:04:49 -0400

Since Cisco launched the new Nexus range of switches, quite a number of people have asked me whether the advent of the Nexus switches heralds the demise of the Catalyst 6500. Furthermore, I have heard that some of Cisco's competitors have been telling anyone who will listen that the 6500 will soon be gone.

Anyway, with all this apparent uncertainty (or misinformation) around I thought I'd find out what is really going on, so I asked some folks at Cisco and they confirmed that the 6500 will be around for a long time to come.

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Tell Us What You Think of Exinda’s x800

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:43:26 -0400

Australian upstart Exinda Networks is in this week’s “ADS Customers Speak” spotlight.

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Nortel, Cisco & Juniper

ylnahar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:03:12 -0400

This article hit the bull's eye when mentioning about Juniper being late in the enterprise data market and Nortel, Cisco being well established. I am familiar with Nortel and Cisco products and therefore know their quality and performance. But Juniper trying to introduce a new line of products and make its entry into the tightly fought enterprise data market confuses me as to why is Juniper taking the risk of facing an inevitable loss? I work as a reseller of Nortel and Cisco networking and data products and I was wondering if any body knew of any testing results with regard to Juniper products? It would be interesting to see how Juniper forms partnerships with corporations and gain a respectable market share. yogesh@infinit-tech.com

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Juniper is chasing Cisco

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:08:52 -0400

It seems that Juniper is making a concerted effort against Cisco's enterprise business with an upgrade to Juniper support services. Fast, efficient intervention when incidents arise an ongoing monitoring for trouble are requirements of major corporate customer and Juniper's AIS services seem to be an attempt to fill that need.

Market Share

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:36:01 -0400

It will take quite a while for Juniper to significantly erode at Cisco's market share in Enteprise Switching.

Tell Us What You Think of Juniper's WX

Sevcik and Wetzel — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:00:53 -0400

For the third installment in our "ADS Customers Speak" series we ask Juniper customers to share their experiences with Juniper's WX solution.

Juniper got into the distributed (a.k.a. dual-ended) ADS market by buying Peribit, the layer 3 compression and caching pioneer. Juniper integrated the Peribit product in 2005 and renamed it the Juniper WX.

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