CTO Straight Talk - Issue 3 - 57

With a long view gained from his
30-year career in Silicon Valley, Juniper
Networks' founder has a message for
the technology industry: Infrastructure
is the foundation of Information
technology- and foundations matter!
Twenty years ago, with the rapid growth
in Internet use providing evidence of its
value and with the availability of optical
fiber causing a rapid drop in the cost
of long-distance bandwidth, Pradeep
Sindhu had an important insight. The
Internet Protocol, he concluded, would
be the only technology capable of
providing network connectivity for
computers at a world-wide scale. This
insight led to the successful founding
in 1996 of Juniper Networks, which just
celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Sindhu, now Juniper's Vice Chairman
and Chief Technology Officer, continues
his deep involvement in technology.
His long tenure in the industry
provides him with a fundamentalsbased perspective that isn't affected
by what is simply fashionable. And
his reading of recent trends has given
him some cause for concern. He
believes that while the current focus
on infrastructure agility is important,
continually improving infrastructure
performance is equally important. In
fact, focusing on agility alone at the
expense of performance raises risks,
for companies and for the industry.
Before founding Juniper Networks,
Sindhu was a Principal Scientist and

Distinguished Engineer at Xerox's Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC), where
he worked on design tools for VLSI
and on high-speed interconnects for
shared-memory multiprocessors. He
was also instrumental in the commercial
development of Sun Microsystems'
first high-performance multi-processor
system family.
Sindhu holds a Bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology in Kanpur, a
Master's degree in the same discipline
from the University of Hawaii, and both
Master's and Doctorate degrees in
computer science from Carnegie
Mellon University.
The following is an edited transcript of
a conversation Sindhu had with CTO
Straight Talk Editor-in-Chief Paul Hemp
and Articles Editor Gil Press.

For more than 30 years, you've
been driving innovation in an
industry where change is the
only constant. When so many
components of IT change so
frequently, it is sometimes difficult
to see the big picture. What do you
see as the key developments in the
industry over the last decade or so?

The most important recent change is the
measurement of progress in information
technology. While improvements in the
performance of networking, computing,
and storage have been and continue
to be important, there is another
dimension that has become critical-the
infrastructure's "agility."

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