WHY CISCO AND JUNIPER ARE NOW WRESTLING OVER FIREWALLS

摘要

Cisco Systems'joust with Juniper Networks has been one of the more arresting stories of the enterprise data networking arena for more than a decade, with the latter at one point gradually consuming up to 30 per cent of the former's market share in top-end routing and switching - an inroad that no other rivals has ever come close to matching across all of Cisco's broad competitive field - but then surrendering some of it back again as the bigger player retaliated. Juniper Networks used to be the techies' favourite with more innovation around dedicated silicon and software features, while Cisco remained the most popular choice with more conservative IT directors on account of its hardware engineering and proven robustness. This carried across