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Juniper To Ship Web Router In Challenge To Cisco, Ascend
By Mark Boslet
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Dow Jones)--A networking industry startup that attracted $60 million in funding from five leading telecommunications companies is poised to unveil its high-speed Internet router on Wednesday.
Juniper Networks Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., began shipping its M40 router to a limited group of customers about a 1 1/2 months ago for acceptance testing, said Chief Executive Scott Kriens. He said the product will be available for volume production on Wednesday.
Juniper's M40 router, a product designed for high-speed Internet backbone use, is being watched closely for the challenge it could present equipment suppliers such as Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) and Ascend Communications Inc. (ASND).
Its packet look-up microprocessor runs at 40 million packets a second, or about 100 times faster than microprocessors used by Cisco and Ascend, Kriens said. The processor examines a packet of electronic data traveling the Internet to learn its destination and then like a postal delivery system searches a lengthy address table for delivery instructions.
Taken as a complete system, the M40 is 10 times faster than top-of-the-line offerings from Cisco and Ascend, Kriens said. Also because it uses one processor instead of more than one, it should be able to be linked more easily in multi-processor configurations to handle bigger jobs, he said.
Juniper has attracted investments from LM Ericsson Co. (ERICY), AT&T Corp. (T), Northern Telecom Ltd. (NT), Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU), 3Com Corp. (COMS), the UUNet division of WorldCom Onc. (WCOM), and an alliance of Siemens AG and Newbridge Networks Corp. (NN).
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has supplied microprocessors.
-Mark Boslet; 650 496-1366 |
