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Juniper Networks
Type	Public (NASDAQ JNPR)
Founded	February 6, 1996
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, USA
Key people	CEO: Scott Kriens CTO: Pradeep Sindhu
Industry	Networking hardware
Products	Routers, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Voip, SSL VPN
Revenue	USD 2.064 billion (2005)
Net income	USD 354 million (2005)
Employees	4,800+ (Q1 2007)
Slogan	Juniper Your Net.
Website	www.juniper.net

Juniper Networks NASDAQ: JNPR is a company in the communications industry. It develops IP networking and security solutions that it sells to Service Provider and Enterprise customers woldwide. Juniper is seen as one of the key competitors to Cisco Systems and Check Point and sells through partners and 2 tier(distributor/reseller)channels. Juniper partners with Ericsson, Lucent, and Siemens AG to provide IP/MPLS network solutions to customers. As of Feb. 1st, 2006, Juniper Networks had 4,800+ employees worldwide.

Contents 1 Products 2 History 3 Financial information 4 Ownership 5 External links

Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, and J-series families of routers, and the SDX Service Deployment System.

• T-series routers are large core routers.
• M-series routers are multiservice edge routers.
• E-series routers are broadband edge routers.
• J-Series routers are small customer-premises equipments.
• NetScreen and SSG - series hardware firewalls.
• Secure Access SSL VPN gateways.
• IDP Intrusion detection and prevention appliances.
• VF-series Session Border Controllers.
• WX and WXC - series WAN Accelerators.
• DX-series Application Accelerators.
• UAC Unified Access Control.
• AAA/802.1X RADIUS, 802.1X.

The E series routers run the JUNOSe operating system. The E series was developed by Unisphere, which Juniper acquired in 2002 from Siemens.

The M, T, and J series routers are based on a common software architecture and the Juniper operating system JUNOS.

While the E, M, and T series are all high speed ASIC based devices capable of terminating multiple broadband optical connections, the J series is much lower in speed. Capable of terminating DS3 (45 Mbit/s) and slower lines, this product line is aimed at corporate branch offices and service provider premise equipment. In the fall of 2006, the J series got a refresh of the modular products offering significantly increased performance to meet updated WAN technologies requirements. In the same announcement Juniper shared that it would co-operate with Avaya to integrate Avaya IP Telephony in the J series of routers.

NetScreen firewalls and the Secure Services Gateways - SSG Series run the ScreenOS operating system and provide wire speed firewall and VPN encryption service. The firewall features also integrate anti-x services - anti-virus and intrusion protection services to offload the internal devices on the LAN from handling all security operations, and by doing so enhancing the performance of the LAN connected devices.

Secure Access products provide SSL based VPN services to remote users without specialized clients. This product was originally designed by Neoteris. Netscreen acquired Neoteris prior to Juniper's acquisition of Netscreen.

IDP products provide detection and interception of malicious network traffic via stateful analysis.

VF-series session border controllers provide scalability and security processing for VoIP traffic.

Juniper was founded by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California. Scott Kriens (formerly of Stratacom) became CEO in October 1996, and is credited with leading Juniper's commercial success. It was reincorporated in March 1998 in Delaware. Juniper went public on June 25, 1999.

Juniper has acquired a number of companies during its existence:

• CMTS startup Pacific Broadband and ASIC design firm Micromagic.
• Unisphere Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens, in July 2002 for $585 million.
• NetScreen Technologies in April of 2004 for 3.4 billion dollars.
• (The intellectual property of) Nexsi Systems.
• Kagoor in April of 2005 for 65.7 million dollars.
• Redline Networks and Peribit Networks in July 2005 for $337 million (Peribit) dollars, $132 million (Redline) dollars
• Acorn Packet Solutions in October 2005 for $8.7 million dollars.
• Funk Software in December 2005 for $122 million dollars.

Juniper trades on the Nasdaq National Market with a ticker symbol of JNPR. As of February 28, 2005, there were approximately 544 million shares of common stock outstanding. Juniper announced a two-for-one stock split on April 13, 2000. Juniper announced a three-for-one stock split on November 16, 1999.

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• Official website
• Juniper Networks Company Profile and News Archive