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• Does Juniper have too many SDNs?

  After last week's Innovation Day announcements, Juniper Networks has a range of SDN, data center fabric and data center switching products to choose from.

• HP latest to unbundle switch hardware, software

  HP has joined the disaggregation party through two partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems.

• Juniper taps switching chief to run product development

  Juniper Networks this week tapped security and switching executive Jonathan Davidson to lead its product development group.

• Why SDN all-stars are heading to Brocade

  Why is it that a who's who of SDN developers is landing at Brocade?

• Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software

  The switch/software disaggregation derby has begun.

• Juniper virtualizes MX router to help companies more rapidly turn-up services

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2174532/lan-wan/juniper-broadens-sdn-for-carriers.html">Juniper Networks</a> this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2173825/smb/understanding-how-sdn-and-nfv-can-work-together.html">Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)</a>.

• AARNet replaces eight-year old AARNet3 network

  The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has rolled out AARNet4 across Australia to meet demands from university researchers who require 10 Gigabits per second Internet access.

• In pictures: RSA Asia Pacific & Japan conference

  RSA's annual Asia Pacific & Japan conference kicked off in Singapore on Tuesday. RSA executive chairman Arthur W. Coviello called for an end to cyber warfare while Juniper Network's Kevin Kennedy compared the Information Age to the Golden Age of the Roman empire. The conference concludes today.

• Barbarians are at the gates of Information Age: Juniper

  If we are not careful in the decisions or actions that we take online today, the Information
  Age may go the way of the Roman Empire, according to Juniper Networks senior director
  of product management Kevin Kennedy.
  

• Juniper jettisons mobile security business

  Juniper Networks has divested its mobile security product line, selling the assets to a private equity firm for $250 million.

• In Pictures: Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014, so far

  Microsoft leads the way, but has plenty of company on jobs cut front

• Juniper boosts DDoS Secure appliance to mitigate UDP-based amplification attacks

  Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what's known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different kinds to both spoof and vastly increase the denial-of-service barrage.

• Juniper hones product development for cloud, intelligent networks

  Juniper Networks combined its hardware and software units to better align product development and share technology across products lines for cloud and intelligent networking.

• Juniper; Palo Alto settle long-running firewall patent lawsuits

  Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks today agreed to settle their long-running firewall-related patent infringement lawsuits against each other, with Juniper saying Palo Alto Networks has agreed to pay US$175 million in cash and equity as part of the settlement.

• OpenStack: Still waiting for the users

  OpenStack has an impressive list of corporate backers. Red Hat, Rackspace, HP, IBM and AT&T are contributing thousands of lines of code to the open source project and helping deliver an updated version of the cloud computing platform twice a year to allow for easier installation and better manageability.