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Long before the rash of deaths at the Foxconn Technology Group’s manufacturing facilities in China, another company fought to stem a wave of suicides at its Chinese operations. That company was Huawei Technologies, and its problem with suicidal employees was … Continue reading 
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In a recent story in the Ottawa Citizen about Huawei establishing an R&D center in Canada’s capital city, journalist Bert Hill mentioned in passing that the Chinese telecommunications-equipment vendor played no small part in the evisceration and ultimate demise of Nortel Networks, Ottawa’s one-time technology kingpin. Make no mistake, Nortel had enormous self-destructive tendencies, and [...]
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A few commentators have opined that Juniper’s recently announced acquisition of Ankeena Networks was a me-too play, a means for the company to catch up with Cisco Systems in video-delivery infrastructure for mobile and wireline networks. There’s an element of truth to that assessment, but that’s why I like the deal, said to be valued [...]
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Juniper and Cisco have a few things in common.
One is that that they’re both data-networking companies that have grown bigger with the expansion of the Internet. Something else they have in common is their understandable emphasis on ensuring that network infrastructure remains more than “dumb pipes” in a potentially deflationary period marked by the [...]
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Pursuant to my previous post on Juniper Networks’ $50-million Junos Innovation Fund, I’ve received additional information regarding the company’s venture-capital strategy.
First off, Juniper will not restrict its investments exclusively to companies with existing development efforts or products connected to the Junos network-operating system. Quoting an email reply from a Juniper spokesperson:
“Juniper will look [...]
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Yesterday Juniper Networks announced a $50-million venture fund. Called the Junos Innovation Fund, it will primarily target VC-backed early and growth-stage startups offering products and technologies that run on or with Juniper’s Junos network-based operating system.
Juniper will make fund investments during the next two years, focusing on networking technologies, applications, and services that further [...]
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"By broadening our portfolio to include the new EX2200 switches, we are able to address the entry-level Ethernet switch market with a product that can …
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New data on the state of the Ethernet-switching market surfaced yesterday and today.
First, Dell’Oro Group reported that the Ethernet-switching market grew sequentially at a 20-percent clip in the fourth quarter of 2009. As a result, Cisco, HP, and Juniper were said to have added $600 million in incremental revenue.
Said Alan Weckel, [...]
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"Instead of being a router, I'm thinking they're becoming a platform." But carriers would be wasting their money just to install the Trio-enabled routers, …
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For a day, Juniper took center stage in the networking firmament. The company preened and strutted while making a series of product, positioning, and partnership announcements that amounted to an old-fashioned, but somewhat new-media, promotional onslaught.
The announcements and related analyst briefings included a stop at the New York Stock Exchange — a recent customer [...]
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On the world’s stock markets and bourses, a company’s shares will appreciate or depreciate for many reasons. When earnings releases are announced, however, the expectations of market analysts and investors are critical to how the results will be received.
Juniper Networks is a prime example. In salubrious times – yes, we can still remember those, [...]
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I looked at the Starent acquisition through a Cisco prism earlier today, trying to fathom what it might suggest about the networking giant’s subsequent moves to capture its fair share of the mobile-video opportunity.
What about Cisco’s (and Starent’s) competitors? How are they affected by the deal?
Eric Savitz at Barron’s Tech Trader Daily quotes [...]
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… market share for carrier Ethernet switches, IP core routers and IP edge routers with Juniper Networks coming in second for the core router segment. …
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Secure Socket Layer SSL Virtual Private Networks VPNs enable secure, remote access to business networks. Because they open business networks to remote users, it is essential to control and monitor access to SSL VPNs. User authentication for the VPN is frequently the weakest link of the secure remote connection. Requiring…
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