VIDEO INTERVIEW: Kevin Johnson, chief executive of Juniper Networks, has emphasised the importance of networks in enabling services and innovation.

“The network is not a set of dumb pipes,” he said. “Without it, there’d be no cloud.” And for Johnson, the cloud and mobile internet are two sides of the same coin.

What’s more, with developments in SDN, or software-defined networks – which, underlined Johnson, introduce virtualisation concepts into the network – Juniper’s chief executive believes the industry is entering a new era of service enablement.

“We’re on the cusp of a new wave of services that leverage the network,” he said. “We’re at an inflection point that we’ll see unfold over the next five to ten years.”

View the full video interview here.