50 BILLION devices: The future that Juniper Networks wants to tap Juniper Networks wants to produce products capable of transforming networks to capitalise on new growth opportunities brought on by the connected world. That is, essentially, its raison d'être. The firm says that with new devices we get new content and therefore new network traffic flows. This is a logical enough supposition …
The 50bn is probably a reasonable number if you count every appliance etc that will be reachable via the internet, but they don't need huge extra bandwidth.
Most of these inflated numbers seem to be made on the premise that if we now have 1bn devices, then 50bn devices will need 50x as much data.
A lightbulb needs a single packet to turn on/off. Maybe ten packets a day. It does not get boored and download kitty pics or post reg comments.
"Juniper founder Pradeep Sindhu, who reckons his firm has improved networking performance more than any other single company over the last couple of decades"--that was probably the low point, and the statement contributed nothing to the article.
Well, Juniper is a good company, and better at developing tech than Cisco is--not better at packaging, supporting and getting it to market though.
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