Juniper Networks expands its R&D centre in Bangalore

Seven years back Juniper Networks' India Excellency Centre (IEC), a research and development division was launched with a team of 14 and it has presently employed 1,800 staff and 300 development partners working at its campus in Bangalore. As part of Juniper Networks' expansion agenda it will add another 750 seats and 450 equipment racks at a new site, Prestige Exora Business Park in Bangalore over the next two years. “IEC is being expanded to the fourth facility (a team is placed in Chennai which concentrates on Media) in Bangalore and it will be developed in two phases. The total revenue of the company is around 4 $ billion and 20 per cent of this revenue will be invested in R&D.” said Sridhar Sarathy, Managing Director of IEC at Juniper Networks.

IEC Operations

IEC will focus largely on building capability to deliver end to end solutions. Juniper Networks has 7 per cent of overall market share and it intends to double the growth from competition in next three years. However it enjoys a market share of 30 %, 18 % and 3 per cent of core routing, edge routing and Ethernet switches correspondingly.

“IEC will see fundamental changes in next few years. It will focus on two solutions prominently — Stratus, a data centre solution and Falcon, a mobile core application.” asserted Stefan Dyckerhoff, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Products Group (IPG), Juniper Networks.

“Juniper's IEC is responsible for a full spectrum of activities including hardware and software development, test engineering, field trials, program management, quality assurance, technical documentation and product line management. The IEC made predominant contributions to the development of one of Juniper's latest market-leading innovations, the Juniper Networks® T4000 Core Router. It also provides 12-hour-a-day global customer support covering all Juniper products and operates a Finance Shared Services Center, which delivers functions to Juniper Finance organizations across the world.” pointed out Sridhar Sarathy.