Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks
Search every verified Raj Yavatkar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Raj Yavatkar, Chief Technology Officer at Juniper Networks, has been discussing the company's innovation strategy and technology focus areas in several interviews and events. He described Juniper's "Beyond Labs" initiative, launched in 2024, as an effort to organize innovation activities around pioneering research and experimental technology development, with four pillars: artificial intelligence/machine learning, sustainability, quantum networking, and 5G. Yavatkar stated that the company's thesis for AI/ML is that "self-driving networks will go to the point where they're aware of end users and end applications," which he called "application-aware assurance." He noted that Juniper has been evolving machine learning models to collect data from across the network and applications, and cited a Fortune 1 customer that publicly stated 90% of their troubleshooting tickets are self-resolved by AI. Yavatkar also addressed developments in Open RAN, private 5G, and sustainability. He said Juniper completed a commercial field trial with Vodafone using Open RAN that met or exceeded traditional KPIs, and that the company is augmenting its cloud-managed AIOps-driven Wi-Fi solutions with private 5G to allow both technologies to coexist under the same management model. On sustainability, Yavatkar said the networking industry lacks benchmarks, so Juniper is defining a "green quant" to measure efficiency and is looking at the picojoules cost per bit as a baseline. He added that Juniper's custom chips have reduced power consumption by about 30% from one generation to another. Regarding quantum networking, Yavatkar stated that Juniper has a product for IP VPN tunnels using quantum key distribution that is shipping, and that the company is working with the UK's Department of Defence to trial the technology.
“So I think if you're a networking geek, it is an exciting place to be because everybody is building huge GPU clusters. All of those clusters need to be fed data from storage networks... Very high performance, a high throughput, low latency kind of network.”
“From what we are seeing, everything shifting to cloud kind of a market. ...the ACG research recently showed that cost of doing machine learning training on-prem is about half of cost in the cloud.”
“We built what we call AI native networking platform. Our infrastructure — we're building 800 gig switches — and all are complemented by our intent‑based automation, we call it Apstra-based automation to support congestion management, flow control and so on.”
“What's happening with GPU based clusters, these things are coming together. And the standard ethernet, we are being able to show it's not just good enough, it performs as well or better than InfiniBand‑based networks.”
Raj Yavatkar, Juniper Networks, sits down with John Furrier, theCUBE.
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Dr. Raj Yavatkar, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer at Juniper Networks ( https://www.juniper.net/us/en/the-fee... ), where he has responsibility for charting the company’s technology strategy, leading and executing the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud. A technology and products pioneer throughout his career, Dr. Yavatkar has envisioned how emerging technologies can be applied to creatively solve enterprise and business problems ahead of competito…
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On this episode of the Moor Insights & Strategy Market Spotlight, host Will Townsend discusses Juniper Networks Beyond Labs initiative with CTO Raj Yavatkar, unpacking investigations tied to networking and AI, sustainability, 5G and quantum secure communications. #JuniperNetworks, #RajYavatkar, #BeyondLabs, #JuniperNetworksBeyondLabs, #networking, #AI, #sustainability, #5G, #quantum, #communications, #quantumsecurecommunications, #willtownsend, #moorinsightsandstrategy Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies o…
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