Juniper uses its POC Lab to put its gear through its paces and win customers.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

March 18, 2015

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Juniper Innovation Showcase -- Service providers shopping for networking gear want to take the product out for a test drive. But testing a router or switch isn't like test-driving a car -- you can't just take it out to the freeway and back.

Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR)'s Proof of Concept Lab is the place where the networking vendor shows off its gear in simulations of customers' own network environments.

We had a chance to tour the Juniper lab as part of their press and analyst day here.

The lab has more than 900 10Gbit/s ports and 40 100Gbit/s ports on 134 racks. "We can probably generate more traffic in this lab than the entire Internet has today," Juniper Major Account Manager Jesse Burmeister, our tour guide, said.

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Figure 1: Tour Guides Our tour guides: Juniper Major Account Manager Jesse Burmeister (left) and Senior Systems Engineer Xiao Wang. The lab is behind the glass wall. The lettering on the glass wall says, 'Your ideas, connected (Can you feel it?).' Our tour guides: Juniper Major Account Manager Jesse Burmeister (left) and Senior Systems Engineer Xiao Wang. The lab is behind the glass wall. The lettering on the glass wall says, "Your ideas, connected (Can you feel it?)."

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About the Author(s)

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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