re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740MEtherNut: Edge routers are like 2nd basemen in baseball - You need them, you can groom any talented player to play the position and you don't pay much for them. ====== If you're saying that edge routers are easy to develop and their functionality is unimportant, then I have to disagree with you.
Edge Routers do: Traffic Classification Traffic Shaping & Policing Security Enforcement (ACLs & Firewall) VPN Tunnel origination & termination Physical link aggregation from multiple narrow-band links (various types & speeds) to a common broadband uplink. Various featurettes (every SP has its own service-specific features)
Juniper's original failure was thinking that just making a smaller/cheaper version of their core routers would be successful, and that all those features listed above were just enterprise-based feature bloat.
If cost was the only driver, we would just use generic-brand packet movers..
re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740MThey overpaid... you can slap together a quite passable edge router from a PC-on-a-chip, some glue and a third-party routing software. Nobody needs ciscoesque "everything and Blacker Front End support on a side, and oh, here's 20 lbs of documentation" in an edge box anymore :)
Project estimate time - 8 mos, cost - $5mil. I am _very_ surprised that Juniper folks didn't build the thing themselves.
re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740MYou must be unemployed because you vast knowledge of edge routing leaves a lot be be desired. I would basically say you are clueless when it comes to edge routing, period. Maybe you should go join RedBack and teach tem how to build a better box. They could use someone of your caliber.
re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740M First, What happens to Jim Dolce ?. Always seemed very able. Does he get elevated to COO/CEO. The Juniper guys seem a little tired.
Second, What do we call these guys now ?.
How about Junisphere, Nope.. No wait Uniper... Nope I know... They carved out castle right ? So how 'bout....
re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740M> > it reminds me of Nortel buying Bay.
Worse, it's like SynOptics and Wellfleet. Nortel basically locked all the routing folks from Bay in the basement until they starved. SynOptics and Wellfleet actually tried to merge, but the cultural and geographic challenges proved too difficult.
1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia 2. Never try and merge a Silicon Valley company with a Mass. company
re: Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740MAnyone know how much revenue Unisphere has in Edge Routing application sales (i.e. a competing box to the Cisco 1000x) vs. DSL Aggregation application sales(i.e. competing with Redback SMS/Shasta/Springtide)?
Edge routers are like 2nd basemen in baseball -
You need them, you can groom any talented player to play the position and you don't pay much for them.
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If you're saying that edge routers are easy to develop and their functionality is unimportant, then I have to disagree with you.
Edge Routers do:
Traffic Classification
Traffic Shaping & Policing
Security Enforcement (ACLs & Firewall)
VPN Tunnel origination & termination
Physical link aggregation from multiple narrow-band links (various types & speeds) to a common broadband uplink.
Various featurettes (every SP has its own service-specific features)
Juniper's original failure was thinking that just making a smaller/cheaper version of their core routers would be successful, and that all those features listed above were just enterprise-based feature bloat.
If cost was the only driver, we would just use generic-brand packet movers..
Kevin!