Aston Martin’s Gayden factory, in the UK, was the location for the launch of Juniper Cloud Metro Network last week. The Aston Martin factory was an interesting (or even inspired) location for the launch of what promises to be a highly flexible and automated solution for CSP access networks. The setting reflected the challenges that telco will face in embracing and adopting what Juniper’s Cloud Metro network can provide: shifting from a production line that produces innovative, high-performance access services, by hand-crafting them at low volumes with limited automation and high levels of manual intervention. Moving instead to an access network “factory” that can deliver high levels of innovation for enterprises, mass personalisation for customers, with high levels of automation, delivered at scale. “It’s no longer a box.” Typically, network equipment vendor launches focus on the new hardware boxes that have been produced: processing speeds, energy consumption and silicon design, with the management software that will run this relegated to a footnote at the end. So it was refreshing to see that Juniper kicked proceedings off with the automated management of this new access network at the heart of their message. The right order in Appledore’s view. Automation, flexibility and […]