Juniper Beyond Labs: 1-Year Later

0:06 hello and thanks for joining us I'm Jay

0:08 ttil senior director industry and

0:10 sustainability marketing at Juniper

0:12 Networks it has been a year since we

0:15 launched junipa beond Labs our

0:17 Innovation engine since then the

0:20 industry landscape has changed

0:22 drastically with new technologies

0:24 breaking ground air has become a

0:26 priority for everyone in fact it has

0:28 become a household name everyone has an

0:30 opinion or other sustainability in

0:32 technology has become a huge Focus

0:35 Quantum insecurity is red hot at Juniper

0:39 we have also pivoted heavily into Ai and

0:42 delivered industry's first AI native

0:45 networking platform today I'm joined by

0:47 Dr Raj yatka the chief technology

0:50 officer at Juniper Networks to discuss

0:52 this journey with Beyond labs in the

0:53 past year Raj firstly huge

0:57 congratulations on the one-year

0:58 anniversary of junip beond Labs I still

1:01 remember our discussions behind the

1:02 scenes to get this to Market it was very

1:04 exciting then it is exciting now no

1:07 thanks for having me and I must share

1:09 the credit with you because I think the

1:11 whole concept of Beyond Labs originated

1:14 with your team and it has been a great

1:16 partnership thanks for that thank you uh

1:19 I want to hear your thoughts on the

1:20 journey we have taken in the past year

1:23 and the progress on key initiatives that

1:25 are shaping Juniper Beyond Labs so let's

1:26 start with that sure like like you said

1:29 I think the big biggest transformation

1:30 in the last 18 months is generative AI

1:33 we are already doing AI for networking

1:35 but now we combined those two and we had

1:37 some really good pathf finding projects

1:39 so for example in the area of generative

1:41 AI we're applying it for software

1:43 development test automation then on

1:46 operating functions we are working with

1:47 our partners in legal HR it to start

1:51 introducing generative AI for doing

1:54 functions that are normally done by

1:56 human beings as a result we increasing

1:58 productivity so that's one area that's

2:01 big secondly we're also partnering with

2:04 our data center team to really do

2:05 Innovative work for AIML crusters yeah

2:08 so one of the biggest concerns is how do

2:11 we go against the incumbent using infin

2:14 band based networks and show that

2:16 ethernet based networks are as good as

2:18 that so our pathf finding project now

2:21 has been able to show that we get the

2:23 job completion times for machine

2:25 learning training as good as are better

2:28 than the traditional infin and that

2:30 it'ss well with our a native Network

2:32 platform absolutely narrative that we

2:33 bringing in as

2:35 well there are other areas also one of

2:37 the areas sustainability is a big one

2:39 that's Focus for you definitely so what

2:41 we have been doing is that we create

2:42 this thermal and energy profiler it's a

2:45 tool which Maps out the entire network

2:48 all the devices for each of the switches

2:51 or routers we look at each of the

2:53 components to the smallest possible

2:55 components how much thermal footprint it

2:58 contributes then you get the complete

3:00 view of the data center thermal profile

3:03 where the hotpots are and what you can

3:05 do to elevate them like by changing the

3:08 paths rerouting the traffic turning off

3:10 line cards turning off fabric cards and

3:13 so on and a has a huge role to play in

3:15 that as well of course so we take all

3:17 the data feed into a training model and

3:19 so that it can start predicting the

3:21 power usage energy usage and suggest

3:23 when we should change the network

3:25 configuration yes so these two areas

3:28 have been the big areas now we another

3:30 area that you touch upon is quantum key

3:32 distribution very H Quantum Computing is

3:34 little bit further away Quantum

3:36 networking is further away but Quantum

3:38 key distribution is here right now so we

3:40 have taken our VPN product and partner

3:43 with company like Quantum bridge to

3:44 combine their Quantum key distribution

3:47 to make it very secure against man in

3:51 the middle the talk as well as people

3:53 being able to use quantum Computing to

3:54 break keys so that's another thing that

3:57 we have made and we're not just stopping

3:58 there yeah other pathf finding projects

4:00 are coming to Fu For example Jun Juniper

4:04 Cloud Interlink or synapse as I like to

4:07 call it for multi cloud and hybrid Cloud

4:09 networking that project is in deployment

4:12 in couple of customers and we're getting

4:14 very good feedback I don't want to

4:16 forget Oran Oran is still slow it's

4:18 happening slowly but we got first

4:20 Revenue last year this year we are

4:22 getting even more Revenue More Design

4:24 bin so that's going well too yeah I

4:26 remember the Rick Journey when it all

4:28 started uh but all the this amazing

4:30 progress that we managed to make this is

4:32 not in isolation just by ourselves we

4:35 had the inputs from our customers and

4:37 partners so what are the new

4:39 Partnerships and customer proof of

4:41 Concepts you're most excited about so I

4:44 think as I said for synaps pro jiper

4:46 Cloud intering Liberty Global pilot went

4:49 so well that they came to us saying that

4:52 they want to now go public and talk

4:54 about it in public so we're looking

4:55 forward to that so that's a example of

4:58 really successful customer po

5:01 IDE now in terms of partnership Quantum

5:03 Bridge as I mentioned is a big

5:05 partnership it's a really successful

5:06 company they have a very good Quantum

5:08 key distribution solution we're

5:10 combining that with our ip6 solution and

5:13 we're actually shipping we're getting

5:14 customers to try that that out and

5:16 actually pay for those I think like

5:18 these are exciting opportunities so we

5:19 have progress with our our Solutions or

5:22 the Innovations we do have tractions

5:24 with customers and partners so what are

5:27 you excited about what is next for

5:29 Juniper be on Labs let me start by at

5:31 least advertising something that's very

5:33 important especially from customers

5:35 perspective we are going to do

5:36 Innovation Summit in the fall yes that's

5:38 where they get to come and experience

5:40 what we're doing in generative AI

5:42 machine learning sustainability Quantum

5:45 key distribution and so on that's very

5:47 important secondly we are also going to

5:50 look for continued collaboration with

5:52 other partners like IBM Red Hat those

5:55 Partnerships will continue we also

5:57 embarking on a joint project with Doha

5:58 Telecom uh that should be exciting in

6:01 the area of sustainability so those are

6:03 all the exciting things coming up that

6:05 and this is in addition to what we do

6:06 with the

6:08 universities we have our existing

6:09 Partners as well that's right so our

6:11 University research program continues to

6:13 proliferate we are thinking of expanding

6:15 that Beyond United States to Canada and

6:18 Europe so that'll be another new thing

6:20 there we start adding new universities

6:22 and some of the research is already

6:24 bearing fruit so for example the work

6:26 going on in Cornell uh with our uh uh

6:29 chip development is already showing that

6:31 our programmable chips can be

6:34 highlighted for general purpose

6:35 programming in networking yeah so it is

6:37 great to hear all the traction that we

6:38 having with our partners and customers

6:41 when we initiated Juniper Beyond Labs

6:43 the main intention was to focus on

6:45 Innovation but there is another Vector

6:47 which we wanted to do which is like

6:49 experience these Innovations together

6:51 with our customers and

6:52 partners so can you please explain how

6:54 can a customer or a partner experience

6:57 Beyond labs and collaborate and be part

6:59 of this journey that we have uh sure I

7:02 think uh I want to start by uh

7:05 acknowledging that it this one year of

7:09 juniper Beyond Labs has exceeded my

7:11 expectations so thank you for the

7:12 partnership and what we have been able

7:14 to accomplish together now to your

7:16 question of what do customers and

7:17 partners do they have various ways to

7:20 experience or participate in a jiper

7:22 Beyond Labs one is of course we have

7:24 this Innovation Summit coming up in the

7:26 fall where we're going to highlight and

7:28 show all the exciting Innovations and

7:31 pathf finding projects that are going on

7:33 in jiper Beyond lab secondly they can

7:36 always come to EBC we have now dedicated

7:39 area in EBC to highlight Juniper Beyond

7:41 Labs so they experience it firsthand and

7:44 lastly I think they can of course use

7:46 juniper.net website to get more

7:49 information about it fantastic and I

7:52 know net is the great way to understand

7:55 what we are doing with Juniper Networks

7:57 and Juniper Beyond Labs please look at

7:59 the links below so that you can get more

8:01 information thanks for sharing all these

8:04 great insights and the progress on junip

8:06 beond Labs Raj it has been exciting year

8:08 and I'm looking forward to the next year

8:10 and Beyond with what we are going to do

8:12 with juniper Beyond Labs thank you all

8:14 for joining thank you