Juniper is literally leaving no stone unturned to be at par with Cisco. And we are not talking about the high speed router marketshare. It is the plans of their CEOs' visit to India, this time. 

Yes, Scott Kriens, CEO of Juniper Networks, will be in India less than a week after John Chambers, the Cisco CEO, flies out of the country. Kriens is on a two day business visit to India on 22-23 January. He will be in Mumbai on 22nd and in New Delhi on 23rd. Though the exact itinerary of Kriens' visit is not known, he is likely to meet the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the minister for information technology Pramod Mahajan in New Delhi. Again, something that Chambers did. 

Juniper Networks has been fast snatching marketshare from Cisco in the core router segment. Leading communication technology research firm Dell'Oro Group estimated that Juniper raised its market share from 22.5 percent in the second quarter of 2000 to 30 percent in the third quarter while Cisco's market share dropped from 75 percent in the second quarter to 68 percent in the third. Analysts feel Juniper's share will continue to grow through 2001.