Juniper finally got to 1 in its 3-2-1 strategy launched last year. The trend, to flatten the network, has been coming for a while. What’s held back the flattening are little things, like being able to aggregate enough access ports over a high capacity and low latency interconnects, broadcast control, traffic management, and frankly a strong driver to re-architect the network. But that hasn’t stopped Brocade, Cisco, and Juniper from coming out with some innovative data center network offerings. Of the three, Juniper’s seems to require less of a commitment by IT, which I think will help the company open doors.
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