Lam Chee Keong, enterprise solutions marketing manager, Asia-Pacific at Juniper, told ZDNet Asia in an interview the modular chipset will be found in its new MX-3D line cards, and allow for its MX-series of ethernet routers to take on smaller form factors. A new MX80 router will take up an eighth of the space of the competition, allowing more to be packed into a data center, said Lam. Juniper will also be opening up a new platform in hopes of attracting third-party development on its Junos networking operating system. To jumpstart the new development it coins Junos Space, the company will release three applications along with the platform's debut. One of the apps, called Route Analyzer, will seek out bottlenecks to optimize paths between data centers. Junos Space is aimed at the building of GUI-based apps for easier network management and automating tasks, he added.