Juniper promises converged BOBs

Mitchell writes a lot about converging network technologies and it is something we are both interested in.  So Juniper's recent announcement around their strategy for enterprise branches was pretty interesting to me.  Juniper certainly seems to be on course to converge data, voice, security and acceleration on one box.  What they seem to have now is just basic routing functions combined with UTM.  In Junipers case UTM is IDp with firewall/VPN.  I think that is a fine start, but if they are really going to doUTM where is AV and content filtering? 

Their announcement says in the future they will integrate some of the VOIP technology they co-developed with Avaya. At some unspecified future date after this Juniper will also incorporate acceleration, compression and caching technology, which I assume is from the Redline and other acquistions.  Whether or not or when we see this is another story, but Juniper certainly seems to be jumping on the convergence bandwagon.  It will be interesting to see how other infrastructure providers respond.

Juniper Networks Announces Strategy for the Enterprise Branch