Hoping to capitalize on the momentum of its emerging technologies and growing partner program, Juniper executives painted a rosy picture of the company's prospects during its annual analyst day on Thursday.
Juniper welcomed media, technical and financial analysts to the event in Silicon Valley, and also broadcast the proceedings on the Internet. Led by CEO Scott Kriens, the company's officers outlined their achievements of the past year and their plans for 2006.
Juniper's revenue passed the $2 billion mark last year, the only one of the more than 1,000 venture-funded companies founded in 1996 to have reached that level. Still, Kriens cited the company's 30 percent brand awareness (from a recent market survey Juniper conducted) as evidence that there's still room to grow in the $20 billion networking-infrastructure market.
"The brand-awareness number shows that we haven't reached a lot of people yet, but that and the size of the market also means that we have a lot more people left to reach," he said, adding that 90 percent of the respondents to the market survey said they'd be willing to put Juniper on the short list of vendors to buy technology from.
The emergence of services in 2006 is expected to be as influential to Juniper's business as it is to other companies.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
