Cisco Systems is hoping to put some distance between himself and his rivals with a new technology that was announced this week.
At the fair telecommunications SUPERCOMM 2001 in Atlanta on Tuesday, said Cisco has enhanced its family of Internet routers and developed new software that will enable telecommunications service providers to more easily manage a network built with Cisco hardware . With the software, for example, service providers can offer Web access to clients without sending technicians to your home or business.
Analysts say the new software will save you money and service providers will help Cisco to fend off rivals such as networking are Juniper Networks heels.
As Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies and Cisco has been battered financially by the economic slowdown and lower spending by companies and service providers. To attract customers, Cisco and its rivals have begun to reduce prices on its products, but companies are also selling the new technology to help service providers generate new revenue.
"What Cisco is doing is covering the space with products with a lot of new features. And they're going to handle them all with a single system," said Michael Howard, an analyst at Infonetics Research. "Cisco has become more intelligent about how to build products. It is a more unified set of products."
Cisco announced on Tuesday a new XML-based add-on for its Internetworking Operating System (IOS) software, which operates the network equipment business.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a Web standard for exchanging information that proponents say will reshape the business to business communications. It not only allows customers to easily and cheaply conduct online transactions with their customers and partners, also offers a sound, video and other data on the Web.
Cisco, however, is using XML to link the company's equipment new and existing networks, so that all can be managed from a central location, the representatives of Cisco, said. As part of the announcement, the company has begun shipping a new device, called the Cisco Intelligence 2100, to help service providers manage their networks.
Before the extension XML, Cisco customers had to manage each Cisco product line separately. "Now we will be able to put it all together in one system," said Howard.
Cisco also announced on Tuesday five new additions to its family of Internet routers, the technology includes Internet traffic from point to point on a network at high speeds. The high-end routers will help the company to better compete against rival Juniper, which has captured 38 percent of the lucrative market for Cisco and 59 percent.
The new Cisco 12406 Router offers the same performance as other high-end Cisco routers, but is smaller, analysts said. The product is aimed at service providers with limited space. high-end routers sit in the "core" network service providers, where those most affected by Internet traffic during transport.
Cisco also announced a compact version of the Cisco 10000 family of routers, devices used to build networks in the area where the service provider network connection.
The company launched a higher-capacity version of its optical equipment for metropolitan areas, an explosion of market rivals include Nortel, Lucent, Foundry Networks, Extreme Networks and others. Cisco optical devices, called the ONS 15454 features an OC-192 Interface, technology that ship traffic on the Internet 10 gigabits per second.
The networking giant announced two routers for better performance in its 7000 product line, which are designed to help service providers offer Web access to businesses. The new router 7400, for example, can support a variety of connections for high-speed network, including digital subscriber lines (DSL), cable, ISDN and T1 services, Cisco executives said.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Juniper on networking equipment deal
Juniper Networks has sent new equipment, high speed networks to help telecommunications companies and Internet service providers build faster networks.
Juniper's high-flying, which competes with Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and others, is best known for its high-speed routers carrying information over Internet networks.
Juniper shares jumped over a product announcement today, also in the word of the company sealed a contract with the ISP Verio's national team worth $ 7 million. The shares rose more than 14 percent to 332, close to the company high of 335.75.
Juniper networking equipment offered for the "core" of the Internet, or backbone through which information travels net. new router for high speed business ready for the "edge" of a network, where service providers in contact with other service providers and Internet companies.
Juniper executives said the company needed to expand their range of network equipment to help remove the ISP network congestion and provide more network services to customers.
"As we move high-bandwidth in the center, you need to carry high bandwidth at the edge, Juniper's vice president of marketing, said Joe Furgerson. "ISPs are providing more services to the largest consumers of bandwidth, and that's not a market that is well served."
The new device, called the M20 router, will allow network providers to offer more services such as Web application hosting and distribution of audio and video across the Web.
Forrester Research analyst, said Brendan Hannigan new product line of Juniper will help you better compete against Cisco, which already sells routing devices.
"There are more dollars at the edge," said Hannigan. "If they continue to grow, they must go beyond being a central router company. It's hard being a simple product of the single undertaking."
Juniper went public in June and had one of the most successful IPOs of the year.
Juniper's high-flying, which competes with Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and others, is best known for its high-speed routers carrying information over Internet networks.
Juniper shares jumped over a product announcement today, also in the word of the company sealed a contract with the ISP Verio's national team worth $ 7 million. The shares rose more than 14 percent to 332, close to the company high of 335.75.
Juniper networking equipment offered for the "core" of the Internet, or backbone through which information travels net. new router for high speed business ready for the "edge" of a network, where service providers in contact with other service providers and Internet companies.
Juniper executives said the company needed to expand their range of network equipment to help remove the ISP network congestion and provide more network services to customers.
"As we move high-bandwidth in the center, you need to carry high bandwidth at the edge, Juniper's vice president of marketing, said Joe Furgerson. "ISPs are providing more services to the largest consumers of bandwidth, and that's not a market that is well served."
The new device, called the M20 router, will allow network providers to offer more services such as Web application hosting and distribution of audio and video across the Web.
Forrester Research analyst, said Brendan Hannigan new product line of Juniper will help you better compete against Cisco, which already sells routing devices.
"There are more dollars at the edge," said Hannigan. "If they continue to grow, they must go beyond being a central router company. It's hard being a simple product of the single undertaking."
Juniper went public in June and had one of the most successful IPOs of the year.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Juniper, Polycom forge alliance
Juniper Networks and Polycom have teamed on a joint telepresence and videoconferencing offering that's designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
In a statement Monday, Juniper and Polycom said they will optimize their platforms so service providers can offer video and telepresence cheaply. The argument: it's cheaper for enterprises to deploy telepresence as a service from their network providers instead of building out their own networks.
The deal with Juniper highlights Polycom's partnership strategy. Polycom last week announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens. Polycom also highlighted a telepresence demo with IBM at CES 2010. The aim for Polycom: forge partnerships that allow it to surround Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
In a statement Monday, Juniper and Polycom said they will optimize their platforms so service providers can offer video and telepresence cheaply. The argument: it's cheaper for enterprises to deploy telepresence as a service from their network providers instead of building out their own networks.
The deal with Juniper highlights Polycom's partnership strategy. Polycom last week announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens. Polycom also highlighted a telepresence demo with IBM at CES 2010. The aim for Polycom: forge partnerships that allow it to surround Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco
The networking equipment manufacturer inked a new OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with Dell Computer, where the PC maker will market, resell and support Juniper's networking gear to businesses.
The partnership will allow Dell to sell packaged product sets bundled with its own storage and servers, to data center customers looking for a one-stop shop arrangement with the vendor.
Cisco earlier this year also entered the server hardware business with its "unified computing" drive. It announced in March a set of blade servers, and in June a rack-mount server system combining network, compute and virtualization components.
Juniper is also introducing a new chipset and revamped software platform. The new processors will be part of a new "Trio" product family built into line cards, and are touted to be capable of doubling the bandwidth offered by equipment available in the market today.
Lam Chee Keong, enterprise solutions marketing manager, Asia-Pacific at Juniper, told ZDNet Asia in an interview the modular chipset will be found in its new MX-3D line cards, and allow for its MX-series of ethernet routers to take on smaller form factors.
A new MX80 router will take up an eighth of the space of the competition, allowing more to be packed into a data center, said Lam.
Juniper will also be opening up a new platform in hopes of attracting third-party development on its Junos networking operating system.
To jumpstart the new development it coins Junos Space, the company will release three applications along with the platform's debut. One of the apps, called Route Analyzer, will seek out bottlenecks to optimize paths between data centers.
Junos Space is aimed at the building of GUI-based apps for easier network management and automating tasks, he added.
"We hope it will remove the tedium associated with some network management tasks," he said, elaborating that these include typical command line tasks that could otherwise be transformed into a drag-and-drop command, for example.
Juniper is also expecting its hardware partners to release apps to ease management of their hardware. For example, a virtualization vendor could build an app that would automate the moving of virtual machines across routers, by automatically activating the necessary ethernet connector and closing the connection after the movement complete, said Lam.
Heightened midmarket push
These announcements make apparent Juniper's sights on a piece of the midmarket pie, currently dominated by Cisco.
Lam said on paper, the OEM partnership would open paths for Juniper to sell its new networking gear to service providers already running Dell equipment embedded with Juniper networking parts. The partnership with Dell, which has been "particularly successful in the midmarket with low-cost servers" provides a new route to market for Juniper, which has "traditionally focused on large enterprises".
"The fastest way to extend [Juniper's] reach would be through partnerships," he said.
While the new products are targeted at service providers, Lam expects interest from enterprises to be high as well. "Enterprise [data centers] have the same service level uptime requirements as many service providers too.
"And smaller enterprises are beginning to require high-scalability [networking equipment] too," he said.
The hardware and software upgrades announced are also a step toward Juniper's "Stratus" cloud project. It said earlier this year it would partner with other companies to develop a converged data center fabric to compete with Cisco's efforts.
Juniper's eventual cloud products won't look very different from the equipment announced, said Lam. "It will just be on the communication layer between hardware and software components and [include] robust virtualization."
The partnership will allow Dell to sell packaged product sets bundled with its own storage and servers, to data center customers looking for a one-stop shop arrangement with the vendor.
Cisco earlier this year also entered the server hardware business with its "unified computing" drive. It announced in March a set of blade servers, and in June a rack-mount server system combining network, compute and virtualization components.
Juniper is also introducing a new chipset and revamped software platform. The new processors will be part of a new "Trio" product family built into line cards, and are touted to be capable of doubling the bandwidth offered by equipment available in the market today.
Lam Chee Keong, enterprise solutions marketing manager, Asia-Pacific at Juniper, told ZDNet Asia in an interview the modular chipset will be found in its new MX-3D line cards, and allow for its MX-series of ethernet routers to take on smaller form factors.
A new MX80 router will take up an eighth of the space of the competition, allowing more to be packed into a data center, said Lam.
Juniper will also be opening up a new platform in hopes of attracting third-party development on its Junos networking operating system.
To jumpstart the new development it coins Junos Space, the company will release three applications along with the platform's debut. One of the apps, called Route Analyzer, will seek out bottlenecks to optimize paths between data centers.
Junos Space is aimed at the building of GUI-based apps for easier network management and automating tasks, he added.
"We hope it will remove the tedium associated with some network management tasks," he said, elaborating that these include typical command line tasks that could otherwise be transformed into a drag-and-drop command, for example.
Juniper is also expecting its hardware partners to release apps to ease management of their hardware. For example, a virtualization vendor could build an app that would automate the moving of virtual machines across routers, by automatically activating the necessary ethernet connector and closing the connection after the movement complete, said Lam.
Heightened midmarket push
These announcements make apparent Juniper's sights on a piece of the midmarket pie, currently dominated by Cisco.
Lam said on paper, the OEM partnership would open paths for Juniper to sell its new networking gear to service providers already running Dell equipment embedded with Juniper networking parts. The partnership with Dell, which has been "particularly successful in the midmarket with low-cost servers" provides a new route to market for Juniper, which has "traditionally focused on large enterprises".
"The fastest way to extend [Juniper's] reach would be through partnerships," he said.
While the new products are targeted at service providers, Lam expects interest from enterprises to be high as well. "Enterprise [data centers] have the same service level uptime requirements as many service providers too.
"And smaller enterprises are beginning to require high-scalability [networking equipment] too," he said.
The hardware and software upgrades announced are also a step toward Juniper's "Stratus" cloud project. It said earlier this year it would partner with other companies to develop a converged data center fabric to compete with Cisco's efforts.
Juniper's eventual cloud products won't look very different from the equipment announced, said Lam. "It will just be on the communication layer between hardware and software components and [include] robust virtualization."
Cisco introduces Cius Android tablet PC
Cisco Systems has hopped on the tablet PC bandwagon with a device of its own that uses Google Android software and is targeted at business customers.
The company announced plans for the new tablet, called the Cisco Cius, during its annual customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The device, which will only weigh about 1.15 pounds, will sport Cisco's collaboration software that integrates virtual desktop applications with high-definition video.
Specifically, the new device will have front- and rear-facing cameras that record in high definition for video conferencing and a 7-inch high-resolution screen. The device will be integrated with Cisco's TelePresence video conferencing system to provide one-click access to video conferences. It will also be integrated with the WebEx meeting products. It can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or through a 3G cellular network.
Unlike other tablets, such as Apple's iPad, the Cisco Cius is designed for business users. Cisco didn't announce specific pricing, but the company said it will retail for less than US$1,000.
Google Android is used in a number of smartphones and a growing number of tablet PCs. Cisco says the advantage of using the operating system is that it will allow the company's business customers to tap into the growing Android developer community, which is developing new business-class products.
This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.
The company announced plans for the new tablet, called the Cisco Cius, during its annual customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The device, which will only weigh about 1.15 pounds, will sport Cisco's collaboration software that integrates virtual desktop applications with high-definition video.
Specifically, the new device will have front- and rear-facing cameras that record in high definition for video conferencing and a 7-inch high-resolution screen. The device will be integrated with Cisco's TelePresence video conferencing system to provide one-click access to video conferences. It will also be integrated with the WebEx meeting products. It can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or through a 3G cellular network.
Unlike other tablets, such as Apple's iPad, the Cisco Cius is designed for business users. Cisco didn't announce specific pricing, but the company said it will retail for less than US$1,000.
Google Android is used in a number of smartphones and a growing number of tablet PCs. Cisco says the advantage of using the operating system is that it will allow the company's business customers to tap into the growing Android developer community, which is developing new business-class products.
This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.
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