Juniper Funds University Research to Advance AI & ML

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0:00 hello and welcome to the feat i'm rick

0:02 rutter juniper recently announced an

0:04 initiative to advance artificial

0:06 intelligence machine learning

0:08 intelligent multi-path routing in

0:10 quantum communications today i have raj

0:13 yvakar juniper cto to tell us why this

0:16 is so important

0:18 raj how would you describe today's

0:20 networking environment and how it will

0:22 evolve

0:23 so i think that today's networking

0:25 environment i see is impacted by three

0:29 main factors one is that the 5g

0:31 infrastructure

0:33 is very different than

0:35 previous mobile networking it really

0:38 brings together very high capacity high

0:40 bandwidth and ultra low latency so that

0:43 the 5g network starts becoming the heart

0:46 of the internet because that's where the

0:47 consumers are enterprises are using

0:49 private 5g networks

0:51 second factor is the metro is becoming

0:53 the new

0:55 place where all the action comes

0:57 because of fixed wireless convergence of

1:00 wireless and wired networks 5g

1:02 aggregation points so suddenly you see

1:04 metro is a place going to a very

1:06 distributed architecture with the

1:08 hundreds of mini edge clouds acting as

1:11 aggregation points feeding into a

1:12 massively scalable ip fabric

1:15 and third factor is hyperscalers are

1:17 expanding their reach

1:19 of their networking

1:21 closer and closer to the enterprises and

1:23 consumers by expanding local zones all

1:26 these three environments are also

1:27 impacted by amount of data available

1:29 from the network itself i want a

1:31 telemetry data available

1:33 that is very useful for operators to be

1:35 able to start taking advantage of the

1:37 data to make something interesting

1:40 happen

1:41 that's really interesting so what are

1:43 some of the experiences or applications

1:46 that operators need to be ready for in

1:48 the future

1:49 so one first one is because of 5g the

1:51 metabolism

1:53 is a new phenomena which takes augmented

1:55 reality

1:57 virtual reality to a completely new

1:59 level and that's happening it's going to

2:01 happen that requires a very different

2:03 type of experience with respect to

2:05 latency

2:06 high bandwidth uh and so on of course

2:09 there are other applications that are

2:10 coming up such as automated driving very

2:13 uh smart iot and so on so that's one set

2:16 of experiences the second experience

2:19 people are expecting to see is that

2:21 how the network become more sustainable

2:24 we need to operate networks for energy

2:26 efficiency not just for the peak or

2:29 operating capacity today the network

2:32 operators take to operate the network

2:34 and provision them for peak capacity

2:36 which is not used all the time

2:38 the third kind of experiences as the

2:40 hyperscalers are delivering more

2:41 services how do operators make sure they

2:44 are part of that ecosystem and start

2:46 offering services monetizable services

2:49 that let

2:50 consumers as well as enterprises take

2:52 advantage of multiple clouds and

2:54 services

2:55 that makes a lot of sense and i mean ai

2:58 is real and it really does help manage

3:00 network operations

3:03 and complexity is growing as we move

3:05 into the cloud area cloud era

3:07 so what do you think is next in terms of

3:09 like next level ai and ml and how do you

3:12 think it will help assist our network

3:14 managers in the future

3:16 so i think we can't stop by just doing

3:18 aiml operated networks operations are

3:21 important they are getting automated

3:23 using aiml

3:24 but the next step is to look at it from

3:26 the network lifecycle perspective

3:29 how do i plan capacity how do i design

3:32 networks and optimize that design

3:34 constantly by using a virtuous feedback

3:37 cycle

3:39 fit the data to the aiml engines they

3:41 give you back insights use them to

3:43 optimize the network and as i said

3:45 earlier there's a lot more focus on

3:47 sustainability which means we have to

3:49 use aiml to decide how do i optimize the

3:52 operation of the network for energy

3:54 efficiency an example

3:56 radio has consumed a lot of power in

3:58 mobile networks but we could power down

4:01 radios by sometimes transferring traffic

4:03 from one base station to another

4:05 combining the traffic so that the power

4:07 consumption goes down

4:09 same thing with the transport and core

4:10 networks that are powered by juniper

4:12 networks you can decide that when you

4:14 have multi-path routing

4:16 how do i use multiple paths so some

4:18 parts can be shut down for some time to

4:20 save energy when we are not operating at

4:22 the peak capacity so there are lots of

4:24 opportunities for taking aiml based

4:26 optimization experience to the next

4:28 level

4:30 that makes a lot of sense i'm super

4:31 excited for the future of that um now

4:34 one of the areas i'm not as familiar

4:36 with is quantum networking can you tell

4:39 us a little bit more what this is and

4:42 why it's going to be critical to the

4:43 future of networking

4:45 sure so i think the quantum computing is

4:47 happening the company is now producing

4:49 quantum computers delivering qubits if

4:51 you're a star trek fan we all grew up

4:54 knowing about quantum teleportation

4:57 right star trek showed you how you can

4:58 teleport

5:00 in reality information sciences uses the

5:03 quantum teleportation to be able to

5:05 transfer information over a quantum

5:07 network

5:08 how does that work you take the photons

5:11 or qubits and if you decouple them over

5:14 larger distances to transfer the

5:15 information

5:17 one application of that is a key

5:19 distribution in security applications

5:21 when you have two parties communicating

5:24 securely transfer action in keys is a

5:27 big complex problem which is subject to

5:30 man in the middle attack

5:32 with quantum teleportation now you can

5:34 do quantum key distribution you

5:36 distribute keys from sender to receive

5:38 in a way that if anybody intercepts the

5:41 key changes so receivers knows that it

5:43 has been compromised and you can redo

5:45 the contractions so we are now funding

5:48 research in universities as well as

5:50 internally for quantum key distribution

5:52 as next level of quantum photography

5:55 raj thank you so much for joining us

5:58 today and for the investments juniper is

6:00 making in our future i hope you'll be

6:02 back soon to give us an update on what's

6:03 happening

6:04 and to everybody out there while you're

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6:12 thank you

6:13 thank you