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Q & A With Juniper Networks CTO Pradeep Sindhu: Page 8 of 13

Then we need to form working groups, each of which is focused on a piece of the problem, and to make rapid progress toward something real.

Advanced IP Pipeline: Have you talked to Cisco yet, in a formal way?

Sindhu: We have approached Cisco, and we're not going to say anything more than that.

Advanced IP Pipeline: Can this happen without Cisco? Can it start to happen without Cisco?

Sindhu: I think that there is a lot of interest by the industry, specifically by the carriers. The main pain point is that they would like to be more profitable. This Infranet Initiative addresses that head-on. That is the reason for its existence.