Juniper’s Kevin Johnson Talks about Network Overload, the iPad and More!
by Kara Swisher
Posted on April 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM PT
When he was president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services division, Kevin Johnson used to think up all kinds of ways to load up the Internet to the gills.
Now, as CEO of the networking giant Juniper Networks (JNPR), he spends his time trying trying to figure out how stop its runaway growth–especially with the surge of video and mobile broadband use–from grinding it to a halt.
At a series of recent industry conferences, such as the recent Mobile World Congress in Spain, Johnson has been trying making noise. One report was even titled: “The Internet Breaking Point: Why Economics Threatens Everything.”
So, with the debut last week of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, a device that–win or lose–is heralding in an era of even heavier media consumption by consumers and businesses, BoomTown thought Johnson would be a good person to reflect on the key trend.
Because if the plumbing gets clogged, the magical abilities of all these kinds of product innovations becomes moot.
It’s an industry concern. Recently, Juniper rival Cisco (CSCO) unveiled a next-generation routing system to speed up Web video.
At Microsoft (MSFT), you might recall, Johnson was key point man in its bid to acquire Yahoo (YHOO), and moved onto Juniper after that effort failed.
Here’s the video of my interview with him at his offices in Silicon Valley:
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