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Cisco takes open dig at Juniper

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Telecom networking gear maker major Cisco has rolled-out a marketing campaign against its competitor Juniper Networks, highlighting how the latter has 'over-promised, under delivered and repeated broken promises and still somehow receives credit for their vision!', reads a post on Cisco Blog

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"Over the last few months, observers have started to ask when Juniper will deliver all the technology innovation it has been promising for years. There’s a growing realization that Juniper has regularly overpromised and under delivered in key product areas," reads the page.

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Cisco says that Juniper announced their intent to offer T1600 support for 100 Gigabit in 2007, however, didn’t deliver 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards until three-and-a-half years later.

Whereas, Cisco announced the CRS-3 and 100G on March 9th, 2010, delivered it in Q4 2010. Similarly, Cisco goes on to question the unavailability of Juniper's Project Stratus/QFabric and 100 Gigabit Ethernet on MX-series edge routing products, announced in 2009. It also points out that Juniper is yet to name any customer for its Project Falcon mobile platform, even after 'three launches in 2009, 2010 and — again -- in 2011'.

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"If QFabric is finally delivered later this year, it will have taken more than two-and-a-half years to deliver. What IS available does not deliver on Juniper’s “3-2-1” vision," Cisco points out.

On the other hand, Cisco adds the its ASR 5000 mobile platform have been deployed by '20 of the world’s largest 24 mobile operators', and Nexus, announced Nexus in January 2008 and delivered on Q2 2008, has been adopted by more than 70 per cent of the Fortune 100.

Cisco also lists out a couple of 'Over-reaching, Underwhelming' points for Juniper'.

On the other hand, Juniper termed it as a publicity stunt and refused to comment on Cisco's campaign.

“We’re not going to comment on a competitor’s publicity stunt. Customers tell us they want an alternative to the legacy approach, and we’re focused on delivering innovation for them. It appears as if Cisco has once again lost focus,” said David Shane, VP, Global Corporate Communications, Juniper Networks.

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