Juniper Beyond Labs: Innovation for the Future

0:04 good morning

0:09 last night everybody had some kind of

0:11 dinner some kind of event I think so I'm

0:13 glad to see people are awake caffeinated

0:16 so very happy to be here to talk about

0:18 uh an initiative and a concept that

0:22 we're launching today at Juniper

0:24 Networks we call it Juniper Beyond labs

0:27 and it's really about how we can

0:30 formalize our history and DNA of

0:33 innovation into really creating a

0:36 structure around which we can partner

0:37 collaborate with the ecosystem to

0:40 continue to innovate for the future

0:43 so I want to start with this quote which

0:45 is very important I think especially

0:48 um that we have Silicon Valley is a

0:50 great example of a graveyard of many

0:53 successful companies

0:55 who ignored this particular advice and

0:59 just see what happened to them so it's

1:01 important I think anytime you are very

1:03 successful to be very paranoid and very

1:07 careful about how did you reinvent

1:09 yourself continuously uh to be able to

1:11 continue to be successful

1:16 and The Innovation matters for the same

1:18 reason as I said you that you know it

1:20 requires you to uh be agile you have to

1:23 continue to reinvent yourself you have

1:25 to find a ways to go about

1:27 it is definitely an engine of growth uh

1:29 people are able to grow because they

1:31 continue to inhibit uh you saw what

1:33 happened with generative AI in the last

1:35 six months it's a biggest disruption

1:37 since the HTTP web browser was invented

1:40 and everyone is scrambling to react to

1:43 that inflection point uh but that's

1:45 going to lead to a lot of growth both

1:47 for existing companies as well as new

1:49 companies and finally differentiation I

1:52 think Innovation is the only way you can

1:54 differentiate you have to stay ahead of

1:55 the curve ahead of the competition and

1:57 so on and uh nowadays the

1:59 differentiation is even more important

2:00 because in a global economy there are

2:03 lots of places around the world where

2:04 Innovation is happening it's no longer

2:05 restricted to industrialized economies

2:08 and Western Nations

2:13 when it comes to Juniper we do believe

2:15 that Innovation is ingrained in our DNA

2:17 because the company started as a

2:19 challenger to an existing company doing

2:21 x86-based routers by introducing very

2:24 Innovative high performance networking

2:26 Asics

2:28 since then we have branched out into

2:30 Network virtualization connected

2:32 security we embed Security in all of the

2:35 portfolio it's a it's an adjective for

2:38 us secure is objectively used for any

2:40 networking product we put out

2:42 uh we have been now leaders in a Gartner

2:46 magic quadrant for three years in a row

2:48 as a Visionary as well as leaders in

2:50 execution in terms of applying machine

2:52 learning and AI uh for cloud managed

2:56 operations of Campus Branch networks

2:58 Wi-Fi and Azure secure Networks

3:03 Cloud native that's one of the

3:04 architectures that we keep on pushing

3:06 because what we do in a physical Network

3:08 infrastructure is equally applicable in

3:10 the cloud so not only that we want to

3:12 provide products for physical Network

3:14 infrastructure in the cloud but also

3:16 when it comes to Virtual networking the

3:18 cloud cloud networking into VPC

3:20 inter-cloud inter-region networking we

3:23 are providing Cloud native uh products

3:25 and finally 5G has really disaggregated

3:29 how the aggregation points on the

3:31 network from the frontal middle back

3:34 caller coming into either through fixed

3:36 Wireless Wi-Fi cable everything is

3:39 coming to Metro it's a very largely

3:41 distributed network no longer using the

3:44 traditional ring kind of topology and we

3:47 have a cloud Metro portfolio to bring

3:49 principles of cloud native architecture

3:51 to the metro area

3:56 so given that history uh let me play a

4:01 video which really talks about what we

4:03 are trying to achieve this concept

4:05 called Juniper Beyond labs

4:08 Innovation is not just a buzzword here

4:11 at Juniper Networks it's what we do and

4:14 who we are innovators focus on improving

4:17 networks every day relentlessly focus on

4:21 scaling IP networks faster and more

4:23 efficiently than anyone else

4:25 revolutionizing internet security

4:28 reimagining network operations to

4:30 improve the network operator and end the

4:33 user experience

4:34 with active Assurance artificial

4:37 intelligence intent-driven Automation

4:39 and Cloud orchestration for Enterprise

4:42 cloud and service provider networks so

4:45 everyone has a better connected

4:46 experience

4:48 and now Juniper Beyond Labs is

4:51 accelerating Innovation that focuses on

4:53 improving our ability to scale sustain

4:56 and enhance networks for a better user

4:59 experience with a global community of

5:02 Partners we're pioneering research path

5:05 finding new Solutions and engaging with

5:07 thought leaders enabling you to

5:10 experience groundbreaking Innovation

5:12 through proof of Concepts and go to

5:15 market trials collaborate with leading

5:17 academic and Commercial partners and

5:20 deliver sustainable networking

5:22 simplified operations and a better

5:25 networking experience for users

5:29 Juniper Beyond Labs gives you access to

5:31 new research and expert guidance

5:33 providing a community open and willing

5:36 to share ideas shaping the future of our

5:39 industry Juniper Beyond lab is the

5:42 Innovation Hub where real world

5:44 challenges become real-time Solutions

5:47 now is the time to collaborate now is

5:51 the time to innovate now is the time for

5:54 Juniper Beyond labs

6:00 the video really tries to capture what I

6:03 was talking about that how we want to

6:05 use this concept to really partner and

6:06 collaborate with people what I'm going

6:08 to do in the rest of the presentation is

6:10 elaborate and give examples of what

6:12 we're doing and where we invite others

6:14 to join us

6:16 so I think uh there are four pillars to

6:19 this particular concept first is of

6:21 course Innovation we talked about it

6:22 will give some examples the other is

6:24 customer engagement we can engage with

6:26 customers for joint projects like we're

6:28 doing with some of the service providers

6:30 in Europe uh demos at our executive

6:35 briefing Center

6:37 um in some Partnerships in which we do

6:39 join projects so that's the engagement

6:41 the collaboration is also another

6:43 important pillar where we are

6:45 collaborating with companies like Intel

6:46 Dell Rakuten mobile and so on to create

6:50 joint Innovative Innovations to move the

6:53 industry forward we're also

6:54 collaborating with academic Partners

6:56 like Purdue University or a company like

6:58 eurofiber or the government agencies uh

7:02 or a startup like arcade and so on and

7:04 finally sustainability is very important

7:06 just the previous speaker talked about

7:08 need for sustainable networks and one of

7:11 the things I'll talk about with concrete

7:12 examples is what we are trying to do to

7:15 really change the way we think about

7:16 networking especially divided and

7:18 networking data center networking and so

7:20 on

7:24 so I think there are three aspects of

7:26 innovation so I want to go through all

7:27 the four pillars I talked about

7:29 Innovation engagement collaboration and

7:32 sustainability in the area of innovation

7:34 first of all we start with really

7:36 research where we jointly work with

7:39 University

7:40 universities to fund research in

7:42 universities we have done it ourselves

7:44 in the area of silicon photonics Quantum

7:46 networking and so on next is pathfinding

7:49 projects this is concept in which you

7:51 start a project as an exploratory

7:53 project to try out new idea an example

7:55 of such a project which is already

7:57 delivering results in area 5G Oran is

8:01 our Iran intelligence controller which

8:03 is truly in the new operating system for

8:05 an open disaggregated RAM and that

8:08 allows us to interoperate with anybody's

8:11 radio stack as well as allow third-party

8:13 ecosystem of application developers to

8:15 start delivering value just like what

8:18 Apple App Store did in the area of

8:20 mobile phones similar concept exists in

8:22 Oram

8:23 then lastly the thought leadership which

8:26 comes in a variety of forms such as as I

8:28 mentioned demos join projects pocs we

8:31 also started dialogues our speaker

8:34 series where we bring in experts from

8:36 outside to talk about

8:39 Innovation or what they are doing where

8:42 the industry should go so those are the

8:44 three really aspects of how we want to

8:46 push the innovation

8:48 the next thing is

8:50 how do we go about Innovation right how

8:52 do we get the ideas so if you look at

8:54 the right hand the left hand side it

8:55 talks about where you get the funnel of

8:58 ideas they can come from customers

9:00 industry needs and trains our partners

9:03 as I mentioned our own engineering teams

9:05 sales teams architecture teams our

9:08 strategy team and in general the

9:10 ecosystem you take those ideas and first

9:13 thing you do is that you allocate three

9:15 for resources for ideation of that idea

9:17 to convert that idea into something that

9:21 could become a project

9:22 and part of that exploration is to do

9:26 what I call minimum viable demo it's not

9:28 a minimum viable project it's not a

9:30 science fair demo that you can show and

9:32 throw it over the wall but it's a

9:34 minimum viable demo in the sense that

9:35 you create sufficient level of detail in

9:39 a prototype that you can actually deploy

9:40 in a customer environment to try it out

9:43 and get feedback and if it that passes

9:46 the muster then you go to the next step

9:49 to make it into actual business or a

9:51 product so that's the really the flow of

9:54 innovation from ideas all the way to

9:58 proof of concept Pilots to actual

10:00 products is how the Innovation funnel

10:02 works

10:05 and here's an example of these different

10:07 phases of innovation in action on the

10:10 left hand side you have ideation so for

10:12 example we're working on what we call

10:13 end-to-end Assurance no matter which

10:15 part of the network you operate in from

10:17 client to Cloud so you could be in a

10:19 campus Branch network Wi-Fi network

10:21 access network sd-ban data center or a

10:24 van transport Network across those all

10:27 the way up to the cloud we want to

10:29 deliver a notion of end-to-end assurance

10:32 that you can get both as SLS but also

10:36 secure uh high performance capabilities

10:39 that are guaranteed uh in the end-to-end

10:41 action manner that's a that's an example

10:43 of something at the ideation stage next

10:46 is what we have been doing in the area

10:47 of quantum key distribution right where

10:50 we partner with another company to apply

10:52 concepts of quantum networking for

10:54 Quantum key distribution so we can have

10:57 a security distribution which will not

10:59 have the problems of man in the middle

11:01 attack

11:02 ah we have also started looking at Cloud

11:05 connect as a service yesterday some of

11:08 the speakers talked about her hybrid or

11:09 multi-cloud connectivity is a must for

11:11 Enterprises they will continue to have

11:14 on-prem applications infrastructure but

11:16 they also host some SAS applications in

11:18 multiple clouds multiple regions

11:20 multiple zones to interconnect all of

11:22 those to Virtual networking and physical

11:24 networking requires creating a fabric

11:27 which is completely you can build

11:29 transparently and automatically so that

11:31 customers can focus on their security

11:33 postures and where they want

11:35 applications to deploy

11:37 finally private 5G that's a area where

11:41 given our strengths in Wi-Fi we are

11:44 partnering with third parties so that we

11:46 can deliver private 5G now if you go to

11:49 the right you can say we are at a stage

11:51 where we made the decision with respect

11:52 to whether to go no go in terms of

11:54 actual products like ran SMU or Rick run

11:57 intelligence controller and finally we

11:59 already have shipping and deployed in

12:01 rakutan Mobile in Japan Juniper Cloud

12:03 native router which is a virtualized

12:05 cell set router which is also applicable

12:07 when you move mobile packet goes to

12:09 hyperscale you can provide that kind of

12:11 connectivity even a virtual Cloud

12:13 environment

12:14 so this is sort of a pipeline or a

12:17 different stages of uh innovation in

12:19 action with real examples that I have

12:24 as I said the second is experience right

12:26 how do we engage with customers so

12:28 here's an examples we have of course

12:30 been engaging with our customers in our

12:32 EBC we have multiple centers in Westford

12:35 Mass Bangalore and Sunnyvale we of

12:38 course participate in events like this

12:40 or a host of our own events and their

12:42 demos so that's the model of Engagement

12:45 next thing is sustainability

12:48 so one thing I want to talk about

12:50 sustainability is that it's extremely

12:52 important not just from customer point

12:54 of view it's our ethical and business

12:57 responsibility to the planet to make

12:59 sure that we design products uh for

13:01 networking which are sustainable and one

13:03 of the things you'll notice that in the

13:05 area of data center in the Computing

13:06 industry uh sustainability has been part

13:10 of that the platforms for quite some

13:13 time there are industry benchmarks so

13:14 you can cannot simply make claims of

13:17 sustainability without having benchmarks

13:18 to measure against networking lag stores

13:20 so one of the things we are starting is

13:22 working with other people we Define

13:25 those benchmarks so we can start

13:26 measuring sustainability of our products

13:28 and services

13:29 so here's only some examples of

13:31 sustainability that we are looking at

13:32 look at the ran intelligence controller

13:35 Ram consumes approximately 70 of the

13:38 energy so the Energy Efficiency that is

13:41 very important so one of the things we

13:42 are working with our partners like Ira

13:44 Technologies and others how to apply

13:46 machine learning to get Energy savings

13:49 you are on top of the Run intelligence

13:52 controller uh of course you can do

13:54 internet link energy metering to get

13:56 idea about how much energy you spent per

13:59 bit of Transport across an internet

14:01 uh we have some low power Network

14:03 initiatives Cloud native routing which

14:05 moves routing to the cloud native

14:07 architecture resulting in lots of

14:09 savings and finally AI based automation

14:11 which can also lead to a saving energy

14:17 and here's an example if you take a big

14:19 chassis based router which has lots of

14:21 line cards and fabric cards to connect

14:23 the line cards together the whole

14:25 capacity might be more than terabits per

14:27 second

14:28 now when the network is not being

14:30 utilized say more than 20 percent in

14:32 middle of the night or even 30 40

14:33 percent there's no reason that all the

14:36 parts of this router should be active

14:38 and burning energy

14:39 so one of the things you can do is that

14:41 selectively turn off some fabric cards

14:43 you cannot turn off the line cards where

14:45 the ports are because the packets can

14:47 traffic can come anytime but you can

14:49 still save significant amount of energy

14:51 in the fabric in the back plane of the

14:54 router similarly in the control plane

14:56 you run the control plane protocol stair

14:58 they usually run on x86 architecture

15:01 Intel provides lots of Peace States and

15:03 C States so they save energy that sort

15:05 of thing can be utilized so this is an

15:07 example of how as together all of us in

15:10 networking industry can make networking

15:12 routing switching more sustainable

15:18 finally collaboration collaboration

15:20 comes in many different forms customers

15:22 we are already having examples of

15:24 customers shown here they are

15:25 collaborating with them in innovating or

15:28 pushing the frontiers of knowledge

15:30 academic we have started collaboration

15:32 with many universities such as Purdue

15:34 stand for Berkeley and so on where we

15:37 find the University Research which is

15:40 completely a sponsored research with no

15:43 strings attached they're free to do

15:45 their research bring the ideas for

15:46 forward but that way we can push the

15:49 knowledge of apprentice of knowledge and

15:52 finally industry Partners I have listed

15:54 a lot of them here and we have active

15:56 participation and partnership with all

15:58 of them

16:00 so the reason uh the collaboration is

16:02 important is that any company is not

16:04 going to be able to make inroads and

16:07 react to Industry trains ah by itself by

16:10 collaborating across the whole ecosystem

16:12 we can all benefit that's the idea

16:16 so I think if you look at our partners

16:18 and there are some of the codes shared

16:19 from Academia from industry Partners

16:22 customers and so on uh who are very

16:25 happy to join us in the journey

16:27 and every Partners here and they come

16:31 from a spectrum of different companies

16:33 and customers as well as Academia

16:38 so finally I think I have my call to

16:40 action for all of you is that join us in

16:43 terms of exploring the possibilities

16:45 so that we can shape the future of our

16:47 industry and we are

16:50 truly innovating tomorrow's Network

16:52 today and we want to do that through

16:54 collaboration

16:56 focus on sustainable networks which is

16:58 no longer a slogan it's a reality a

17:00 necessity that we owe it to the planet

17:02 and finally provide a better connected

17:05 experience across client client to cloud

17:08 or into an assured experience

17:12 thank you

17:15 great

17:16 thank you very much Raj and I'm happy

17:19 that we can take a few questions thank

17:20 you for making the time you said

17:22 collaborate collaborate collaborate does

17:25 that also mean revenue share in sharing

17:28 the IPR as well that's it I think when

17:31 you talk about uh me I think one of the

17:34 things to remember is that if you look

17:36 at cgpp like bodies they have already

17:38 created a very good framework for

17:40 sharing IPR right we do that on an r d

17:43 basis it's enable non-discriminary same

17:45 thing we have to apply across the

17:47 Spectrum yeah and what about the culture

17:50 really you talked a little bit about

17:51 this but can we go a little bit deeper

17:52 about what type of you know how do you

17:55 really change the culture to be more

17:57 co-creation and just looking not just

18:00 within but without how do you do that so

18:02 I think little quick wins you can apply

18:05 to the audience with many times you have

18:06 to take a leap of faith right so I think

18:08 the examples they can give to our

18:09 partnership with Intel for example Adele

18:11 where we are co-creating and these are

18:14 larger companies which are willing to

18:16 share ideas and IPR to co-create same

18:19 thing we are doing with some of our

18:20 customers in Europe where we are jointly

18:22 creating uh some new ideas yeah okay any

18:25 questions from the audience ladies and

18:27 gentlemen you should take this

18:28 opportunity to speak and ask directly

18:31 from someone who's been driving

18:33 Innovation across the world but let me

18:36 just ask a cheeky question uh which is

18:39 um do you think that there's a greater

18:40 will for innovation in some parts of the

18:43 world versus others

18:46 yes and no I think it's changing you're

18:48 like traditionally we Associated Western

18:51 Nations or U.S North America Europe with

18:55 Innovation but I just came back from

18:57 Bangalore and I was also uh visiting

19:00 some parts of Asia I think the internet

19:03 and Richard the availability of mobile

19:05 networks and all these applications make

19:07 it easier for people to start innovating

19:09 in different parts of the world and

19:11 sometimes the Innovation for the local

19:12 conditions is very different than what

19:15 we think of the Innovation that's

19:16 another thing okay what do you mean by

19:17 that house so I think uh an example I'll

19:20 give you that you know in a developing

19:23 country like India for example found

19:25 that Innovation focus is more in terms

19:28 of doing more with less in terms of any

19:32 part of the network so for example

19:34 simple things like data center design

19:36 they are looking at it using much less

19:39 resources and still be able to

19:41 efficiently run data centers which is

19:43 I'm really glad you mentioned India the

19:45 first perhaps the fastest growing 5G 5

19:48 GSA Market in the world right now is

19:50 there a few weeks ago myself my goodness

19:52 Innovation is coming from the

19:54 Enterprises as well not just the

19:56 technology companies they've got plenty

19:58 of ambition yeah a lot of innovative

20:00 ambition so it has to be a group across

20:03 different groups right that's right okay

20:05 well brilliant thank you very much for

20:07 your time unless we have any other

20:08 questions I'll say thank you very much

20:10 you're around for the rest of the big

20:11 five correct thanks thank you so much

20:13 for your contribution thank you

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