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Juniper Networks
Public (NASDAQ: JNPR)
FoundedFebruary 6, 1996
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California, USA
Key peopleCEO: Scott Kriens
CTO: Pradeep Sindhu
IndustryNetworking hardware
ProductsRouters, Firewalls, Intrusion detection systems, VPN hardware
Revenue USD 2.064 billion (2005)
Net income USD 354 million (2005)
Employees5,200+ (Q1 2007)
Websitewww.juniper.net


Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Juniper also partners with Ericsson, Lucent, and Siemens AG to provide IP/MPLS network solutions to customers. Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, and J-series families of routers, and the SDX Service Deployment System.

History

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.

Acquisitions

Juniper's history of acquisitions includes:
  • ? - The intellectual property of Nexsi Systems.
  • December 2000 - ASIC design firm Micromagic, for $260 million.
  • November 2001 - CMTS startup Pacific Broadband, for $200 million.
  • July 2002 - Unisphere Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens, for $585 million.
  • April 2004 - NetScreen Technologies, for $3.4 billion. Netscreen acquired Neoteris prior to this acquisition.
  • April 2005 - Kagoor, for $65.7 million.
  • July 2005 - Peribit Networks, for $337 million.
  • July 2005 - Redline Networks, for $132 million.
  • October 2005 - Acorn Packet Solutions, for $8.7 million.
  • December 2005 - Funk Software, for $122 million.

Products

Router products

  • E-series routers are broadband edge routers. The E series was developed by Unisphere, which Juniper acquired in 2002 from Siemens.
The E series routers run the JUNOSe operating system.
The J, M, T, and MX series routers run 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, the J-series 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.

Other products

  • NetScreen and SSG series firewalls - The SSG Series runs the ScreenOS operating system and provide firewall, anti-virus, intrusion protection and VPN services. Added to the product lineup after purchase of the Netscreen Technologies company, they do not run the JunOS that the higher-end products do. Instead they run ScreenOS which provides a sophisticated mid-tier level of service. While capable of complex configurations, these are targeted mostly to small and medium sized business.
  • Secure Access SSL VPN gateways - Secure Access products provide SSL based VPN services to remote users without specialized clients.
  • NSM NetScreen Security Manager - This is an enterprise-wide management tool for Juniper devices which allows for a single-point bastion control over multiple Juniper devices as well as serving as a syslog host & configuration backup repository.
  • IDP Intrusion detection and prevention appliances -
  • WX and WXC - series WAN Accelerators -
  • DX-series Application accelerators -
  • UAC Unified Access Control -

Discontinued products

  • VF-series Session Border Controllers - VF-series provides scalability and security processing for VoIP traffic. Juniper announced End-of-Life (EOL) for all four of its VF-series products in 2006.

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