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Juniper Expands Cloud Metro Portfolio to Power Sustainable Business Growth

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Juniper’s expanded Cloud Metro proposition, including new capabilities such as Paragon Automation as a Service and new ACX7000 product enhancements, is well-positioned to power CSP sustainable business growth objectives including the acceleration of 5G SA network builds, more intelligent flexible edge cloud hosting, and service experience innovation.

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Juniper Ups SASE Proposition and Stirs Competition with CASB and DLP Additions

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores Juniper’s new Secure Edge CASB and DLP capabilities targeted at augmenting the SASE experience by bolstering cloud-based data safeguards, driving policy-based visibility, fortifying SaaS protections, and easing the overall SASE integration process, enabling Juniper to strengthen its competitive position in the tightly contested SASE market.

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Juniper Unleashes Trio 6 and Express 5 Chipsets Strengthening Experience-First Networking and MX/PTX Solutions

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Juniper Networks introduced its Trio 6 chipsets purpose-developed for the MX series and edge networking applications and the Express 5 chipsets purpose-made for the PTX series and core networking environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Trio 6 and Express 5 chipsets improve Juniper’s overall edge and core networking portfolio in areas such as throughput, logical scaling, deterministic performance, and power efficiencies as well as boosts Juniper’s competitive positioning against key rivals Cisco and Nokia.

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Juniper Support Insights Assures Comprehensive AI-driven Junos Portfolio Vision and Message

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Juniper extends AI-powered support to entire Junos portfolio to streamline operator efficiencies and augment end user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Support Insight offering spotlights the capabilities of its AI assets and provides more cohesion across Juniper’s portfolio-wide marketing outreach including delivering the benefits of Experience-First Networking.

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NEC and Netcracker Join Forces with ADVA and Juniper to Boost 5G xHaul Transport Automation

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NEC and Netcracker unveiled an integrated multi-vendor solution with ADVA and Juniper that targets packet optical automation and the streamlining of 5G transport. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the alliance bolsters NEC’s strong hand as lead integrator for Open RAN projects across broader Open 5G network builds, enhances Netcrackers’ Network Domain Orchestration credentials, and augments the 5G ecosystem prospects of ADVA and Juniper.

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Juniper Gets More SASE

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Juniper debuts its Security Cloud Director, the cloud-based portal developed to aid customers in migrating securely to a SASE architecture by protecting users, applications, and infrastructure amidst cloud journeys and organization-wide transformation. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Juniper Security Director Cloud solution and how it bolsters Juniper’s overall Connected Security strategy, especially in emerging SASE frameworks, as well as Juniper’s near-term competitive positioning.

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Pluribus Networks: Driving Ecosystem-wide Disaggregation, Network Virtualization and Controllerless SDN Fabric Adoption

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores recent announcements from Pluribus Networks. The company is delivering the portfolio innovation and ecosystem influence to accelerate SDN automation and disaggregated networking across DC realms. Pluribus Networks’ portfolio commitment and marketing focus on delivering disaggregation, network virtualization, and controllerless SDN automation across DC environments is a key differentiator. For more on Ron’s insights, be sure and read the article.

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Juniper Commits Automatically to Experience First Networking Strategy

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Juniper’s debut of Paragon Automation demonstrates the ability to execute on its Experience-First Networking strategy. The formation of Paragon Automation indicates Juniper has the blueprint to bolster its portfolio through a well-executed acquisition strategy that most recently includes 128T and Apstra.

Futurum’s Ron Westfall views the formation of Juniper Paragon Automation as boding well for Juniper’s prospects in further assimilating its 128T assets to make deeper inroads into the AI-driven enterprise realm as well as successfully integrating its Apstra assets to alter the competitive dynamics within the automated cloud DC realm. Through Paragon Automation, Juniper is ready to win new mind share and move the needle across the automated WAN, AI-driven enterprise, and automated cloud DC market realms.