The article I chose from CIO this week has introduced us to what difference Juniper Networks can bring to the world of Telecommunications in the near future. This is one sector which has shown rapid innovative growth and vast profits in short time. I have always been a fan of Juniper Networks ever since I knew about them from my friends who are working on both Cisco and Juniper platforms and then from my own research. I never got a chance to work with these technologies though and hence cannot give a verdict on Juniper and Cisco’s Graphical User Interface and Command Line Interface battle that will ever go on. May be some practical experience will strengthen my beliefs in the JUNOS world.
Coming to the article, the JUNOS INNOVATION FUND (JIF) is probably the best way to back and encourage small and growing companies working with JUNOS platform. I expected virtualization and green IT to be a slow-mo spread. But JIF is sure to give the required pace for it and a run for other companies investments. Introduction of the new internal incubation labs in Juniper doesn’t come as a big surprise to me, taking into account their thirst for innovation and growth. The magnanimity and user friendliness of their projects and products has always been a customer’s delight, at least as far as I know.
The strategy involved in running the incubation lab should be well acknowledged. One of the reasons for this is the short time period involved on each incubation even though it is a high-risk or disruptive project. The other can be the verdict pronounced for each of them – which are fail, pass for internal units or pass for external units rather than keeping it on hold and getting a solution for it 5 or 10 years later. I would say this has brought a new dimension for differences between a research lab and the now getting famous incubation lab.
Though the investment for the JIF and the lab are large scale, it can be well predicted that the pay-offs for such projects will always be “owner’s pride neighbor’s envy”. I think the Telecom companies should take this as an example and innovate ways to help each other out and yet stand above in the competition.
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