With Cisco Stalking, Juniper Shows No Fear

SAN FRANCISCO -- Only time will tell if Juniper Networks' (JNPR Quote) chairman and CEO, Scott Kriens, is worthy of the industry captains' hall of fame, but this much we know already: He's mighty cool under pressure.

Exactly two weeks after archrival Cisco Systems (CSCO Quote) announced its new Juniper killer router, Kriens was asked Wednesday at the Robertson Stephens Technology 2001 Conference here if he thought he'd see price pressure as Cisco starts flexing its muscle to win back the market share that Juniper had taken.

Kriens said price was among the weapons his rival could use, and added with a gunslinger's bravado: "No sense taking the ammo to the afterlife." ...