Pradeep gave a great talk on the current state and future of networks
Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend a Juniper event that had Pradeep Sindhu, the CTO and founder of Juniper networks speaking. Pradeep gave a great talk that went into how our networks are transforming (but have to transform faster) and where he sees the future of networking.
Looking at today’s environment, Pradeep warned of the lack security applied to mobile devices – and how far behind security offerings are for mobile devices. The threat surface has exploded as millions of mobile devices are connected, which makes them the target of choice for malware creators.
Pradeep said that previously, networks were designed for specific applications in mind. Be we can’t do that any more. We must design networks that are application agnostic and homogeneous. The number of applications looking to operate on the network is ever-increasing.
Pradeep gave his four key principles for network building
1. Must deliver information to end-users anytime, anywhere, across all devices at world-wide
scale
2. Build infrastructure out of a small number of general-purpose building blocks. Building blocks must be independent of applications and users
3. Automate everything that can be automated (history of technology is history of applying
automation to problems)
4. Need open software ecosystem to maximize the rate of innovation
Pradeep finished his talk with a discussion of data centers, and where he sees the evolution of data centers. He believes that we should have mega-data centers with more efficient networking pieces. These networking pieces can be 10x as expensive as the computing piece. Part of that cost is in space that networking piece can take up in a data center. He introduced Juniper’s new solution qFabric, which I will discuss in another piece.
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