Juniper's partners can write customisable apps - much like iPhone developers - following a series of worldwide announcements by the networking vendor today.
The Junos Space network application platform unveiled today in New York allows partners to write their own applications to run on top of Juniper's hardware and Junos operating system.
The open standard model will enable Australian partners to differentiate themselves from competitors, said Greg Bunt, director of fabric and technology for APAC at Juniper.
"The announcement will enable Juniper 'to drive innovation' particularly when organisations have specific requirements," said Bunt.
For example, partners can now write relevant apps for customers such as the Australian government "if it has a specific requirement for a particular piece of data", said Bunt. Junos Space "will enable the reseller to quickly write an app and install it on the hardware and software".
It also allows Juniper to grow partner interaction with its hardware, he claimed.
Juniper has always positioned itself as an open standard business model, said Bunt, who claimed that closed standards "do not promote innovation".
"Broadly [speaking] no one offers this sort of [openness], you can't write an app that runs on a switch.
"It's very, very different for the networking and security industry; we haven't seen [this] before," he said.
Junipers vision
The announcement was part of Juniper's 10-year networking vision to deal with the exponential demand on networks.
As part of the launch, Juniper introduced several products and partnerships that expand the company's reach.
• Junos software: An open cross-network software platform that includes the Junos network operating system, the new Junos Space network and new Junos Pulse integrated network client.
• Junos-based silicon and systems: A new Junos One family of processors, including the Junos Trio chipset with revolutionary 3D Scaling technology.
• New cloud networking and security products based on the Junos software platform and Juniper systems.
• OEM partnerships with Dell and IBM to deliver Juniper systems as part of their cloud-ready data centre solutions. Juniper also announced its first-ever Junos software licensing partnership with Blade Network Technologies, which will develop future blade switches based on the Junos operating system.
This was about a change in the way Juniper was doing business, said Bunt.
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