Nokia Rightly Chooses Partnering Over Merging With Juniper For U.S. Push

Acquiring Juniper would have given Nokia a complimentary product portfolio to market and helped it secure more end-to-end network deals with carriers, especially in the U.S. However, Nokia would have also had a harder time integrating operations and realizing margin gains due to the lack of effective cost-optimization opportunities across different product portfolios with little overlap.