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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Cisco, Juniper face-off on software

By Jim Duffy
Network World, 06/12/00

SANTA CLARA - Speeds and feeds are not all that matters when building reliable routers for the Internet core.

Indeed, the software component of these high-speed devices may play an even larger role in ensuring that packets and sessions are not dropped. That's why Cisco is building more resiliency and redundancy into its next generation IOS software. That's also why Juniper Networks plays up the reliability of its Junos operating system.