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Junos Disaggregation: \u201cWish this ran Junos\u201d Is About To Come True<\/h2>\n

For years Juniper has been passing out these stickers in various form factors proclaiming, I Wish This Ran Junos.\u00a0 I\u2019ve saved one of every type I ever layer my hands on for my home office desk collection pictured here.\u00a0 Now this whimsy is coming true.<\/p>\n

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Juniper\u2019s CEO announced a commitment to disaggregating Junos from the hardware and selling software only for white box deploy. \u00a0Juniper already introduced a white box data center switch this year where you could remove Junos and run open network operating systems. \u00a0They intend to carry this forward onto all Junos platforms going forward. \u00a0You will no longer have to run Junos on Juniper hardware. \u00a0Thus Wish This Ran Junos will finally come to pass.<\/p>\n

Juniper also notes with this announcement that the vast majority of their engineering resources are in software development and not hardware design.\u00a0 The maturity of the specialized chip market for networking has freed up companies like Juniper to concentrate on the truly difficult and specialized problems of networking in hardware.\u00a0 Much of the base material for speeds and feeds can be delivered by commodity silicon with the cost shared by the entire industry instead of carried by a smaller user base.<\/p>\n

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This model for disaggregation will also assist in the software development cycle.\u00a0 The looser connection of software to hardware will make Junos even more portable.\u00a0 And allow hardware designers at Juniper to worry less about hardware\/software interaction.\u00a0 This will potentially speed the development process.<\/p>\n

Juniper makes wonderful high quality hardware.\u00a0 This is especially true in products requiring high performance specifications.\u00a0 The MX series for example, has made core networks at service providers highly reliable, redundant and with large capacity.\u00a0 For these applications the money spent on top notch hardware is well worth the expense.<\/p>\n

But there are many other areas of the network where special environmental conditions or very low cost hardware solutions are what is required.\u00a0 To date we have to leave the Juniper portfolio to fill these needs.\u00a0 But now disaggregation may afford us opportunities to use white box routers at customer sites where cost is an issue but keep the Junos we know and love still running the show.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be watching the development of Juniper as a software company closely.<\/p>\n

References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.juniper.net\/us\/en\/insights\/software-disaggregation\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.juniper.net\/us\/en\/products-services\/switching\/ocx1100\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Originally Posted November 16, 2015
\nLast Revised on November 16, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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