40% of product development was done in Bangalore

What distinct advantage does JUNOS offers customers which others dont?



When we went about the development of JUNOS, our vision was clear from the

beginning. We didnt want to repeat the mistake of unveiling a new operating

system for every product line introduced as our competitors did back then.

We developed and focused on a single operating system and a consistent

architecture across platforms so that customers dont have to work around

hundreds of operating systems across multiple platforms, thus saving time and

improving productivity. This is reflected in the operational cost savings for

the customer.

Juniper recently opened JUNOS OS. Why did Juniper go open, considering

that JUNOS is basically proprietary OS in nature?



We are not going open source or are not opening the whole of JUNOS to

developers. We opened some part of the OS because of the modularity of its

software, and the developers can have access to some of the modules only.






Juniper Networks has been ramping up the R&D center in Bangalore. Could you
tell us about the contribution of Indian engineers in this space?




Today we have 900 engineers at our R&D centre in Bangalore. However, it is

not the numbers, but the transformation of the role of Indian engineers at

Juniper. The role has shifted from being primarily executioners, to being the

originators of planning. The old model was that the idea originated in Sunnyvale

or Israel and get executed in India. Whereas, in the new model ideas are

increasingly originating from Bangalore and execution is taking place in

Bangalore as well as other places.

Juniper bets really big on managed services. Why is there a need for

telecom service providers to shift their focus on managed services?



Simply because they are being pushed to focus on the other end of the

spectrum. Bandwidth business is now not a business at all, and service providers

need to look at managed services very seriously. And, because of the networks

they command and the customers they have in hand, carriers and service providers

need to tap this exciting space in managed services, which is expected to be

worth $66 bn by 2012.

Idhries Ahmad/Cyber Media News



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