Juniper focuses on network security: CEO sees system integrators emerging as key telecom players amid industry evolution

Juniper Networks has realigned its security focus after its acquisition of NetScreen, with a push toward integrated security instead of stand-alone point solutions. Juniper CEO Scott Kriens, in a recent interview with Group Editor Joseph Waring, notes that trusting the network is the key in the drive toward an all-IP, ubiquitous network.

America's Network: There's been a great deal of talk about ubiquity. How important will it be in the near-term?

Scott Kriens: We believe there's going to be a ubiquitous network, it will be a single infrastructure, it will carry multiple services, it will be very intelligent, it will enhance our lives. That will all be true some day. The observation that that it is true is meaningless. The issue is when will what elements within that grand claim be true and what will it mean when they are. It is the path to how one gets there that is where all the real opportunities lie.

One of the reasons for the acquisition of our security portfolio is that we believe that the key enabler to making it all happen faster is that you have to trust the network to use it more. That is one driver. It not only has to be secure, but it also has to be assured, it has to be reliable and has to be able to deliver the quality for the video signal that I'm going to drive across it.