For Cisco and Juniper, the move to base telecom networks on white box switches and routers is an obvious threat, even as the vision of deploying virtualized 5G RAN with huge numbers of edge routers may be a good opportunity. AT&T has not only championed white box switches and core routers, but provided specs to the Open Compute Project (OCP), which exists to commoditize data center and network hardware, and break down the business model of the traditional vendors with their expensive integrated appliances. No wonder, then, that Juniper chief product officer, Manoj Leelanivas, speaking at a Bank of America technology conference last week, was still pursuing the line beloved of his company and Cisco – and the RAN vendors…