Can someone throw me some light on what is Juniper's biggest failure historically? I know the best Success Juniper has its TRIO chipset.
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Toxic, nepotist, corrupt and selfish middle management. These leeches only hire and promote their friends and family brought in from Bangalore.
Almost all of these unscrupulous are southerners and have pushed out every competent person.
Juniper is history, it's toast, we are writing the obituary here.
I could write a University thesis on this question. K–ling their security business, Enterprise Sales, Wireless, Sales structure, need I go on. The company has messed so many positives, they have a reverse midas touch. Just look what they did to Netscreen. Seeing the same with Mist, great technology, just wait folks, Juniper will mess it up big style. Don't trust them in anything other than routing.
well said @cwl+17Cn61oQ
I remember the Trapeze story. Got them all in then lay them all off in months. Zero impact except all Trapeze folks got a few months of PTO and bigger severance package. Awesome deal for them. Not so great for Juniper.
Great response. Thank you @cwl+17Cn61oQ.
Who took the decision to move NetScreen to JunOS, PS? If so, the founder himself
k–led Juniper from Security Market.
Wow...where do you start with this one? Lots and lots of small failures along the way for sure but the biggest one was probably how they managed NetScreen.
Juniper had a market leading product with NetScreen but insisted on converting this into a JUNOS platform which alienated a huge install base of both users and resellers. The direction drove out the founders of NetScreen who took what would have been the direction of NetScreen and turned this into Palo Alto Networks. The tech they took and the IP information they had should have been a slam dunk in court but even this was botched. Juniper has/had a great product in the SRX but PLM and the company flat out refuse to fix the issues to make this competitive. (Management platform, feature velocity)
I'm sure I'll think of more;
- DX (redline) was a comparable product to F5 and on the eve of the 10GbE capable products being released to market it was decided to totally abandon the product and existing customers and let F5 own this entire space. Eventual goal was to start putting this capability into the SRX but after the DX debacle it was never more than a half assed attempt.
- WX (Peribit) was ahead of it's time and essentially was an SD-WAN product about 8 years before it even existed. The code was embedded into SRX platforms and would have been a game changer but was never released. Juniper was quick to simply let Riverbed take over this market.
- Trapeze Networks when Aruba was still in the market for sale! Everyone internally was hoping for an Aruba purchase yet we were left with antiquated tech. There was even an AC access point ready for production but that was haled at the last minute and abandoned when they were forced to withdraw from the market.
- Contrail (more specifically OpenContrail) sent Juniper chasing after SDN sales a customer base that was entrenched with OpenSource Tech. Then when nothing sold or resonated they flat out refused to address the glaring holes in the product to make this suitable for the 99% of the market that could have purchased and paid for support.
So many more things I could rant on about ....