India, April 25 -- Juniper is struggling in the service provider market, and doesn't foresee a comeback soon, CEO Rami Rahim said on the company's Q1 call Thursday.
Service providers are facing business challenges, contributing to "slight declines" in Juniper's long-term financial model for its service provider business, Rahim said. Juniper hasn't entirely resigned to its fate; it's hopeful for improvement in the future, driven by 5G and Juniper providing support for transforming central offices into automated service delivery platforms. And Juniper is looking to monetize software, in addition to hardware. So those things could turn Juniper's service provider business around -- but Juniper isn't counting on that. "We're just not baking tha...