Strong 2008 and reasons for optimism in 2009
Juniper rolled out a number of new carrier and enterprise products during 2008 that helped to boost its bottom line. In the enterprise space, 2008 marked Juniper's entry in to the switching space with its EX series switches — an area that Juniper intends to expand upon in 2009.
«Our entrance into the adjacent $20 billion switch market is providing us additional share growth opportunities,» Johnson said. «We are expanding our switch offerings with the introduction of the EX8208, which has completed testing.» The EX 8208 will be a high-end switch with a total capacity of up to 6.2 terabytes per second.
Juniper also debuted its new Dynamic Services Architecture during the year, with its SRX series, which competes against Cisco ASR (Aggregation Services Router) hardware.
On the carrier side of the business, Juniper continued to challenge Cisco with new MX series services for carriers to get more our of their networks.
Moving into 2009, Johnson said he expects that the trend toward cloud computing and increasing larger datacenters is something that will help fuel growth for Juniper as companies seek a lower cost per unit of compute cycle. The move toward the cloud is also driving convergence in the datacenter as well.
«You see the whole convergence of compute fabrics with storage fabrics with network fabrics that run the centralization of these big datacenters, and my view is that's not just a short-term 2008 phenomenon,» Johnson said. «That is a phenomenon that will continue over the next five to seven to ten years, and that is one that also plays right to our strength. It plays to our strength of world-class networking at scale.»
Ключевые слова: Cisco, datacenter, economy, Juniper, networking
Статьи по теме
(Еще не оценили)
Загрузка ...