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Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Juniper also partners with Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent to provide IP/MPLS network solutions to customers. Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, MX-series, and J-series families of routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, WX-series WAN optimization devices, and SRC Session and Resource Control appliances.In 2009, Juniper makes debut on Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for.
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Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Juniper also partners with Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent to provide IP/MPLS network solutions to customers. Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, MX-series, and J-series families of routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, WX-series WAN optimization devices, and SRC Session and Resource Control appliances.In 2009, Juniper makes debut on Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for. The Juniper products are widely used in the large networks around the world and is a leader in high-performance networking.
Corporate history
Juniper Networks was founded by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California, USA. Pradeep Sindhu served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until September 1996. Scott Kriens (formerly of Stratacom) became CEO in October 1996, and is credited with leading Juniper's commercial success. Juniper was reincorporated in March 1998 in Delaware.
As a startup, Juniper received $6 Million in Funding from AT&T, Anschutz in 1997. It also received another $14 million from a variety of venture capitalists. It garnered the financial support of over $40 million of Northern Telecom; 3Com; UUNET Technologies, a subsidiary of WorldCom; the Siemens AG/Newbridge Networks alliance; and Ericsson.
Juniper shipped its first product, the M40 router, in September 1998. The M40 was one of a kind in terms of speed.
Juniper went public on June 25, 1999. In 2000, Forbes recognized Scott Kriens as the Top Tech Executives. By 2000, Juniper began to eat into the growing slice of its main rival Cisco's Internet router pie.In 2000, Juniper took a stunning 30% of the core router market, up from 22.5% in the previous quarter. From 1999 to 2005, Juniper acquired many technology companies like NetScreen Technologies, Unisphere Networks, Funk Software etc. In 2002, Juniper announced its plans to expand its line of Internet core routers to the edge.
Kevin Johnson, former chief of Microsoft's platform and services division, became the CEO of Juniper in July 2008 succeeding Scott Kriens. Scott went on to become the Chairman of the Board for Juniper Networks.
Acquisitions
Juniper's history of acquisitions includes:
- November 1999 - Intellectual property design firm Layer Five, for $19 million.
- December 2000 - ASIC design firm Micromagic, for $260 million in stocks and cash.
- November 2001 - CMTS startup Pacific Broadband, for $200 million.
- May 2002 - The intellectual property of Nexsi Systems.
- July 2002 - Unisphere Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens, for $740 million.
- April 2004 - NetScreen Technologies, for $4billion. NetScreen acquired Neoteris prior to this acquisition.
- April 2005 - Kagoor Networks, 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
Network Operating Systems
- JUNOS is the Operating System that runs on most of Juniper's networking gear.It is Juniper's single network operating system spanning routing, switching and security platforms on its router products. The corporate strategy of Juniper is to offer a single Operating System across its routing and switching equipments. The single operating system of Juniper makes it easier for both Juniper and users, and helps to differentiate Juniper from its competitors in the networking gear space that often has multiple network operating systems. The novel concept of the Partner Solution Development Platform (PSDP) opens up the development of new features and applications of JUNOS software to their customers and partners . JUNOS operating system is primarily based on FreeBSD , the advantage of which is the Unix-like environment: customers can access a Unix shell and execute normal Unix commands. JUNOS is platform independent within Juniper hardware systems . After Juniper acquired NetScreen, it also integrated NetScreenOS security functions into its own JUNOS network operating system so that now Juniper offers routing and security functions in a single device . The biggest competitor of JUNOS is Cisco Systems's IOS .
Router products
M40 of M-series was the first product by Juniper Networks, which was released in 1998.The M40 was the first of its kind capable of scaling to meet the internet standards ,which can move 40 million packets per second with a throughput rate in excess of 40 gigabits per second. With the initial offering of m40, Juniper came up with the Internet Processor I. The proprietary ASIC was the fundamental core of Juniper's Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE). The PFE consisted of a shared memory, a single forwarding table, and a one-write, one-read architecture.The entire PFE was capable of forwarding at 40 Mpps, a capacity more than 100 times faster than that of any other available router architectures at that time. The M40 is one of the first routers on this scale, about 10 times faster than Cisco's 12000.
- E-series routers are broadband edge routers. The E series was developed by Unisphere, which Juniper acquired in 2002.
- The E series routers run the operating system.
- The J, M, T, and MX series routers run the FreeBSD-derived 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
- EX Series Switches - Juniper's switch line-up was introduced in 2008 and runs JUNOS. Available in stacking and non-stacking 1U format with full and partial PoE functionality, and from 2009 also available in chassis format.
- SRX Series Dynamic Service Gateways . A series of devices running JUNOS with enhanced services, this series also include the SRX 5800, the worlds fastest firewall. Combines Security (S) Routing (R) and Switching (X) in one chassis.
- NetScreen (discontinued) 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 Network and Security Manager (formerly Netscreen Security Manager, renamed Aug. 2008) - 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, as well as the NSMXpress appliance that furthermore provides distributed hierarchical features.
- IDP Intrusion detection and prevention appliances -
- WX and WXC — series WAN Accelerators -
- UAC Unified Access Control -
- Steel Belted Radius - Including HA AAA solution, IMS Server, SIM/SS7 Server
- Odyssey Access Client - 802.1x supplicant
- Security Threat Response Manager (STRM)- Juniper sell STRM as an OEM version of Q1 Labs' QRadar product running on Juniper hardware.
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.
- DX-series - Juniper announced End-of-Life (EOL) for all the DX-series (3200 and 3600 models) in mid 2007 and early 2008.
Juniper Networks Technical Certification Program
The Juniper Networks Technical Certification Program (JNTCP) was introduced by Juniper Networks, Inc. and intended for attaining proficiency in Juniper line of products. The certifications are divided into several levels based on skill level requirement.
Awards and Recognitions
In 2009, Juniper makes debut on Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for.
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