Cisco vs Juniper: Router Wars
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Code : COM0039
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Region : USA
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Acquire & Ascend – Cisco Way Cisco was founded in 1984 by a wife and husband team of Sandy Lerner [Sandy] and Len Bosack [Len] from Stanford Business School. 'Sandy and Len' worked in two different departments and could not e-mail each other as the two departments they worked with were on two different operating systems that did not communicate. To solve this problem, they built a router that acted like a mailroom to open packets and distribute the data... Networking Industry in the Late 1990s Four major players – Cisco, Bay Networks, 3Com and Cabletron - dominated the router market in 1998. With revenues of $8.5 billion, profits of $1.35 billion and a market capitalization of $188 billion, Cisco was the leading provider of Internet routers. During this period, as different purchasers demanded routers optimized for special purposes, analysts divided the Internet routermarket into two segments – 'core' and 'edge' router markets... Background on Juniper Networks Juniper was founded in February 1996, by Pradeep Sindhu, a principal scientist at Xerox, Dennis Ferguson, an Internet expert at MCI and Bjorn Liencres, a technical guide from Sun Microsystems. The company began its operations with an initial funding of $200,000 from venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... |
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