Pity poor Juniper. The networking company’s alliance with Ruckus Wireless last summer raised hopes that it would strike it third time lucky in the WiFi market, filling the gaping wireless gap in its platform. Now Brocade has snatched carrier WiFi leader Ruckus from under its rival’s nose with a $1.2bn acquisition, the latest in a series of deals which could make Brocade a more dangerous challenger to Cisco in the service provider space than Juniper itself. The acquisition makes Brocade look far more like Cisco in the wireless operator space – in its statement, it said the key aim was to address “critical networking requirements from the data center to the wireless network edge”. As enterprise networks and data centers…