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There’s a tsunami of internet-connected devices coming — literally billions of sensors, controllers and robots — and the fundamental architecture of the internet needs to change in order to make room for them all.

That’s both the challenge and the opportunity in front of companies such as Sunnyvale, California-based Juniper Networks, which builds the high-capacity gear that makes the modern internet work.

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While Juniper may not be a household name, if you’ve used a smartphone or logged onto the internet today, CEO Rami Rahim said there’s a 99.9 per cent chance that your data has gone through Juniper equipment somewhere along the line.

Over the past decade or so, the architecture of the internet has been shifting massively away from personal computing, where data and programs mostly ran on a device, and towards the cloud.

“Cloud is the biggest, most tectonic shift that has happened — not just in the networking industry, but across all industries — and we have shaped our entire strategy around cloud,” Rahim said.