What Value BTI Systems Add to Juniper Networks?

Juniper Networks has completed the acquisition of BTI Systems, a leading provider of cloud and metro network infrastructure solutions to content, cloud and service providers globally.

According to Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI) by combining two industry innovators, Juniper believes it can now offer a comprehensive, robust solution under a unified management architecture to address the fast growing data center interconnect and metro packet optical transport markets.

The close of this acquisition will pave the way for Juniper to help drive the industry toward a more open, automated and highly efficient IP and optical transport network. As the portfolios of both companies become tightly integrated, we believe our customers can expect:

• A more compelling economic model for Data Center Interconnection and Metro Networks through tightly integrated, single-layer packet-optical networking.
• Broader network automation, with the ultimate business outcome of reduced operational expense, through integrated software defined networking and management systems.
• Rapid service creation enabled by the network integration and automation ensuring that the network dynamically adjusts to the needs of the business vs the business adjusting to the needs of the network.
• An open framework giving customers the ability to choose where and how they take advantage of these capabilities.

In terms of a roadmap, BTI Systems’ portfolio complements Juniper’s IP and Ethernet product portfolio with a richer set of optical capabilities, optical network management and automation software. Juniper plans to leverage these capabilities, as well as the complementary talent and expertise that the BTI Systems’ team brings, to further integrate optical capabilities in our switching and routing portfolio. Additionally, we plan to build evolved open optical line system[s?] to continue to drive cost-efficient networks as well as evolve operation and control with open, standard and programmatic interfaces across all the layers of network. More to come on this at a later time.

As the growth of content sharing, video streaming, social networks and other bandwidth intensive applications in the cloud and content networks will continue to accelerate. Customers need a better way to manage the increasing bandwidth demands for high-speed interconnectivity between data centers, access networks and peering points. Separate and closed legacy systems are costly to scale, hard to manage and maintain, and offer limited performance and latency. Operations cost of maintaining multi-layer expertise is enormous and lacks end-to-end visibility and automation across packet and optical transport networks.

Through this acquisition, Juniper and BTI systems are bringing together their shared vision to tackle customer’s most challenging problems and deliver solutions that are open, automated and efficient.