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Cisco, Juniper open operating systems

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Cisco, Juniper open operating systems

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
Cisco and Juniper this week both hit upon the same bright idea: to open their router operating systems to third-party developers. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World. Contact him.

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1 comment:

Justin Lofton said...

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