Juniper CTO Talks About the Company’s 5G Aspirations

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When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm.
Koley, who had been Google’s head of network architecture, engineering and planning, was considered an expert on software-defined networking (SDN).
In advance of the company’s annual customer conference, Koley talked with Light Reading about Juniper’s SD-WAN moves, the importance of the network edge, and how the company is banking on 5G to help turn around its weak service provider business.
Juniper’s Bikash Koley
Light Reading: Juniper’s service provider business has been a weak area for the company.
Koley: A lot of the initial 5G deployments have happened in the radio access network.
But we are well positioned for the full 5G buildout where we see service providers doing a core refresh and virtualizing their networks.
LR: Juniper teamed with Ericsson about a year ago to be its 5G transport network partner.
Koley: That strategy is one of our three pillars and it is working out well.
We also launched SD-WAN as a SAAS [software-as-a-service] that is cloud-delivered, and that business is coming together.
LR: How important is edge computing for Juniper and how are you working with customers on the edge?
Now not just hyperscalers but also service providers are looking at the cloud and so are enterprises.
Edge cloud is important because it is becoming increasingly expensive to move data from where it originates.
If you want to apply machine learning (ML) it will take a lot to bring that data to a central cloud, so you want to run ML as close to the car as possible.
Juniper is one of the only companies that has a very strong presence with the hyperscalers, the enterprise and the service provider.
When a workload moves from the enterprise to the edge cloud and to the public cloud, that data is probably running through a Juniper switch or router.

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