Chuck Robbins said he didn’t want to imply that a deal with AWS was in the works. But he added that AWS Outposts with Cisco networking was “certainly conceivable.”
The China-based firm held a commanding lead in global sales over rivals Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco. Combined, those four vendors controlled 86 percent of the market.
The new group advances Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge architecture, which uses software-defined interconnection and high-speed networking to combine multiple micro-data centers into a single, virtual facility.
The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas. The two facilities will develop 5G products and software and
Company CTO Neville Ray explained that the carrier was using just 10 megahertz of its 600 MHz and 700 MHz spectrum resources to support its 4G LTE network.
The investment is further validation that microsegmentation is real, and Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin admits that VMware deserves “quite a bit of credit” for legitimizing this technology.
The president’s commitment comes as his top cybersecurity chief warns that China could use Huawei’s 5G networking equipment to steal “trillions” of dollars of intellectual property.
CEO Tim Eades won’t comment on his company’s valuation. But he says the investment puts it on track for an IPO and profitability within the next 12 to 18
Ed Meyercord noted a customer win against Huawei and said security concerns about the Chinese vendor are “creating an opportunity for us in the marketplace.”
Rami Rahim said new products, including an MX line card targeting carrier 5G deployments, a new 400G platform, and silicon photonics capabilities, will return Juniper to growth during the