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Juniper opens up to third-party development

By Rodney Gedda , Computerworld , 12/10/2007
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Juniper has announced a Partner Solution Development Platform (PSDP) allowing customers and partners to develop specialized applications on its JUNOS operating system.

The company claims the PSDP is the industry's first partner development platform for a carrier-class network operating system, and anticipates its customers and partners will deploy new services unique to their businesses, and improve network operations productivity.

The PSDP includes a software development kit with "intelligent and secure" interfaces to Juniper's JUNOS routing and service functions.

Juniper has talked about becoming a more open networking vendor for over a year now, and the PSDP is another step in that direction.

Specialized applications may include event-optimized routing, customized bandwidth management, and advanced security services.

Juniper provides access to the PSDP, and technical and business support, through its Open IP Solution Development Program for customers and partners. The PSDP will be available through an annual licensing program. Members include Aricent and Avaya.

Kim Perdikou, executive vice president and general manager for Juniper Networks' infrastructure products group said the requirements of an increasingly disparate and global networking marketplace create an innovation imperative extending beyond the capabilities of any single vendor.

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Juniper opening up its OS could negatively affect CiscoBy Cisco Subnet on December 10, 2007, 7:58 pmThe Juniper vs. Cisco battle is heating up again as Juniper announces an initiative to allow customers and partners to develop specialized apps on its JUNOS operating...

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Cisco opens up its OSBy Cisconet on December 12, 2007, 12:40 pmCisco opens up IOS - Is it on its way to becoming a true software company? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22969

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Juniper will needs to hire lots more tech supportBy Anonymous on January 23, 2008, 12:26 amto managed all of the customer induced bugs that this program will bring. Carrier Class and open source are opposites. If this has never been done before how...

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Just a PR tacticBy Anonymous on January 23, 2008, 12:35 amonly open to big time paying customers who were probably already asking Juniper to develop features for them so Juniper off loads the work and charges them a fee...

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