Economic Benefits of MSX with Ivan Melia from Cisco - Episode 43

In this interview, the CTO of Juniper Networks joins Ray Mota CEO from ACG Research to discuss the launch of Juniper Beyond Labs, a significant milestone for the organization. Juniper, known for its history of innovation, introduces Beyond Labs to further harness breakthroughs in various technological areas and drive industry transformation. The CTO elucidates on why the initiative was launched at this time and the technological areas they plan to delve into, encompassing areas like AI, cybersecurity, and 5G technology, among others.

Expressing his excitement, he shares how Juniper Beyond Labs aims to shape the future of technology, pointing towards an increased focus on customer-centric innovations. When asked what distinguishes Juniper Beyond Labs from other innovation centers, the CTO emphasizes the blend of Juniper's industry knowledge, partnered research, and applied innovation approach, designed to expedite real-world solutions. Finally, looking forward, he hints at promising developments that are on the horizon for Juniper Beyond Labs, indicating an evolving landscape of technological advances that is set to revolutionize the industry. This comprehensive discussion underscores Juniper Networks' commitment to driving cutting-edge technology and industry-leading innovation.

Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. In the US alone, an estimated $100 billion will go to broadband deployment funding. This unprecedented funding is spurring prodigious demand and will result in a generational transformation of the access network.

The entities looking to deploy broadband access run the gamut from highly experienced incumbents to utilities, inexperienced new service providers such as municipalities and others. The optimal access network solution for each deployment depends on a variety of factors such as topologies, which vary widely from dense urban areas to remote sparsely populated rugged rural areas, available technologies, deployment and operational flexibilities, and go to market strategies.

In this podcast, we explain the forces shaping the access network, the prevalent technologies and deployment considerations, and explain how ACG is planning to address these market inefficiencies along many dimensions in its newly created Broadband Access Transformation practice.

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Dr. Ray Mota, ACG Research CEO and Principal Analyst, and Ilan Tevet, RAD Marketing and Business Development VP in dialogue about user-centric service assurance tools for CSP customer retention, package upgrades and OpEx savings.
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What if CSPs could save millions annually on call center and tech support, while raising satisfaction for enterprises and enterprise users?

This is now possible by harnessing EAD/NID traffic data for fault isolation and usage insights.

According to a 2021 Survey, only 24% of CSP call center helpdesk ticket root causes originated in the CSP WAN. The remainder were 3rd-party originated, from either the enterprise LAN or Cloud-based application. By attaining end-to-end visibility of the entire service path, CSPs can immediately perform fault isolation, eliminating unnecessary helpdesk tickets.

The savings is estimated at $150 per helpdesk ticket – not to mention that customer satisfaction increases due to support speed.

In turn, this visibility service can be provided to the CSP enterprise customer as a subscription service. The enterprise can “self-serve” fault isolation, thereby only escalating issues related out of their domain to their CSP. Talk about a time saver.

In addition, the traffic insights enable CSPs to offer service upgrades based on actual usage – a win-win for both CSP and user.

As the “new edge” where connectivity, distributed cloud, and customer experiences converge, metro networks face traffic growth of 500 percent by 2027. Expanded security threats, talent shortages, and new ITU standards for reducing carbon emissions are also changing metro requirements.

Amid these conditions, operators can’t sustain the current cost per bit of service delivery for long. Juniper Cloud Metro applies cloud principles to metro networks, enabling sustainable business growth with future-proof systems, architecture, and AI-enabled automation as a service.

Brendan Gibs, Senior Vice President of Product Management from Juniper Networks join Ray Mota from ACG Research to discuss how Cloud Metro enables sustainable business growth for service providers. 

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Cloudification has been significantly affecting metro networking and RAN in the network to deliver differentiated services for improved user experience.

The metro can potentially drive new service opportunities for operators and improved experiences for network users. It will become where connectivity + edge hosting, + service experience converge. At the same time, Open RAN provides opportunities to optimize the radio resource and deliver innovations faster to the end users. Julius Francis, Sr. Director of Product Marketing from Juniper Networks, and Jai Thattil, Sr. Director of Product Marketing from Juniper Networks, join our CEO, Ray Mota from ACG Research, to discuss the transformation in Metro networking & ORAN space.

With SR-MPLS turning ten and SRv6 coming on the scene in 2019, is there a right path for service providers? Where are service providers regarding their decision-making roadmap?  Ciena’s Jahanzeb Baqai joins Ray Mota to discuss a new Segment Routing report from ACG Research®, with insights directly from Service Providers on this and more. 

Topics:

·       SR-MPLS adoption: real or imagined?

·       SRv6 plans are starting to take off

·       A glimpse at two approaches to Segment Routing

·       SR-MPLS vs. SRv6: Is there a right path?

·       Interwork or coexist? Segment Routing in existing networks

·       Compressed or non-compressed segments for SRv6? That is the question

Links:

Jahanzeb Baqai - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahanzeb-b-6944281/

inseego SVP/GM of Enterprise Networks Ritesh Mukherjee joins Ray Mota from ACG Research to discuss enterprise trends, enterprise 5G, and enterprise wireless use cases.

Arrcus CEO Shekar Ayyar & Co-Founder and CTO Keyur Patel join Ray Mota from ACG Research to discuss trends, challenges, and Arrcus’ ACE vision.

Topics:

• What is Arrcus’ ACE vision and how is it relevant to the telco network transformation?
• Key architectural requirements and challenges 
• How are telco networks evolving to support 5G and edge computing? 
• What are the new business opportunities that are created with 5G? 
• Why is routing playing an increasingly critical role in telco network infrastructure?
• Network use cases that the Arrcus ACE platform supports for customers?
• Key innovations that have helped Arrcus build a strong software-defined transport networking platform? 

Links:
Shekar Ayyar - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shekarayyar/

Keyur Patel - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keyur-patel-9aa169/

 
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