The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
According to Kolon "virtualisation and management of a data centre fabric are even more complex than for an enterprise or even a service provider network and we are looking at leveraging our knowledge of service provider networks with VPNs and other types of virtualisation to develop similar capabilities inside a really big cloud and that will take a lot of work in silicon, in hardware and in software... Our specialty and one thing we are addressing in this project is the explicit sharing of application requirements with the network which allows you to be much more prescriptive with the quality of network service that you can provide to an application."
IBM to be a key partner
Juniper says it will be relying on partners to bring to the overall solutions those components that are outside its core competencies and it has already flagged IBM as a major partner, with a key role in storage. Kolon said: "We have a particularly close relationship with IBM who are integral to this announcement. They know this stuff [storage] better than anybody."
He added: "IBM and Juniper have been partners since the inception of the company. First of all in terms of silicon. What has happed recently is that we have become closer when it comes to planning and implementing enterprise and service provider networks...Outside the US Juniper does all its business through partners and IBM is one of our strongest partners. And both companies realise in today's competitive environment that there is a lot to be gained from becoming much closer."
Juniper's move into the data centre virtualisation space follows that of Cisco which has been touting its Data centre 3.0 vision for well over a year, and which made a major product announcement in this market with the launch of its Nexus data centre switch in January 2008. The magnitude of that project gives some indication of the scale of challenges facing Juniper. Light Reading described it as "possibly [Cisco's] biggest product launch in four years...The platform took four years and $US250 million to develop, requiring contributions from more than 500 engineers."
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