The latest information on Juniper’s success in diversified segments of market is the ‘Ethernet Platforms’.  Despite the recession;

Quarter over Quarter, pretty steady growth and as per Mike Banic, VP at Juniper Networks for Product Marketing “Based on the companies covered in the Dell’Oro report, over the past five quarters of revenue shipments, Juniper has grown its EX Series switch revenue faster than any enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 switch vendor entering the market in the previous decade,”

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Some interesting facts if we look back, Juniper had a wide variety of products and what was lacking in the portfolio was a ‘complete solution’, the switches. I used to wonder why haven’t they started a BU around this and based on the reputation and more importantly people like choices – it would only seem imperative that they need to have done this couple of years back and of course it would be a huge investment, can’t discount for that.

Instead of a vendor setting standards and price tags, a customer always would prefer a choice of vendors where he get to make the calls!

Great going Juniper…

At this point, something of strange nature is that the EVP of Ethernet Platforms Group at Juniper, Hitesh Sheth – moved over to Aruba to take a position of COO. This would be the first position at Aruba, a COO!

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