Juniper Networks said it would acquire Netrounds for an undisclosed fee to strengthen its line-up of wide area networking (WAN) products. Based in Sweden, Netrounds is conventionally thought of as a network testing and monitoring specialist, although Brendan Gibbs, the vice president of Juniper's automated WAN business, more colorfully describes it as a sentient hammer that knows exactly where to whack a malfunctioning network.
"How do you figure out what's wrong and hit it with that proverbial hammer?" said Gibbs in a blog that justified the takeover. "Service providers need automation to scale, and Netrounds' solution can provide true insights needed for that," he continued more prosaically.
It's an intriguing move partly because computer science major jobs appears to be so versatile: Juniper says the technology works in various scenarios and spans network and service domains. It could be used to test a 5G network slice before it is deployed, for instance, or to assess the impact of running a new cloud service at the edge of the network.
Identifying performance problems in a software-defined WAN is a further use case that Juniper cites in its statement on the deal. The acquisition comes several weeks after Juniper CEO Rami Rahim highlighted growing customer interest in "next-gen cloud-delivered AI-driven solutions" during a call with investors.
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