Update: I have been grossly mistaken in putting up this blog post. The company in this report is NOT Juniper networks but a start up called ‘Paxterra’. Paxterra has been formed by a senior Juniper Networks staff who recently left the networking giant to form the new company. The company, among other things, will be getting contractual work from Juniper Networks and intends to get it done locally in Pakistan. So while the headline of this post has proven to be grossly wrong, there is still some original excitement in the news. The confusion was caused because my contact at Juniper Network broke this news to me and the way the dialog progressed, I mistook Paxterra for Juniper. I am sorry.
p.s: The openings are still there and local Pakistani resources are welcome in this new venture.
Juniper Networks Some senior Juniper Networks’ staff might end up opening a technology back-office in Pakistan. The project, very small right now, can prove to be a great news for the nascent but budding IT and Telecommunication industry of Pakistan.
It is interesting to note that despite considerable sales that Juniper Networks has recently made in the otherwise invisible-on-the-sales-map Pakistan, this is NOT a sales office. Some patriotic and situation-aware Juniper guys have managed to convince the company to have a back end technology office in Pakistan. This is reportedly for the stress testing and other iterative testing jobs for which good engineers are readily available in Pakistan.
If this goes through and continues to grow, from a strategic view point, Pakistan will move upwards the value chain of the BPO business. Let us hope for the best!
October 25, 2007 at 12:16 am
I am Excited, thrilled, and surprised. If this is true then it would be grand for Pakistan. By the way are there any details on where are they planning to open offices ? And what type/level of work they will be doing? From technology perspective, neither the infrastructure not the demand exists in Pakistan at this point in time for the type of equipment that Juniper has really made its mark for. However having a base in Pakistan will create a drive for this in the market.