Juniper Networks High-Performance Application Acceleration Platforms Win Computerworld Malaysia Readers' Choice Award

Award Recognizes Juniper's WXC platform in the WAN Acceleration – Communications category

MALAYSIA – October 14, 2008 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the Juniper Networks WXC application acceleration platform has won a Computerworld Malaysia “Readers' Choice Award" in the WAN Accelerators category.

Juniper representatives accepted the award last night at the 2008 Computerworld Readers' Choice Awards ceremony dinner in Kuala Lumpur. Juniper's WXC application acceleration platforms help distributed enterprises accelerate application delivery over the WAN, more effectively leverage WAN investments and boost user productivity.

"Computerworld Readers' Choice Awards is in its 7th year and is definitely the voice of the IT Community in Malaysia," said Teng Fang Yih, editor of Computerworld Malaysia. "Considered the Oscars of the IT industry, the Awards go to vendors that score well in the areas of price, performance, functionality and ease of use with their customers.

“We would like to congratulate Juniper Networks for its second consecutive win in the last two years in the Communications category, with the WXC WAN Accelerator. This product as proven itself to have a long-lasting positive impact on the industry and we look forward to customers enjoying its benefits."

Juniper's WXC application acceleration platforms provide distributed enterprises with a scalable approach to accelerating the delivery of client/server and web-based business applications and services – including ERP, CRM, email and file services as well as voice, video and terminal services - over the WAN.

Juniper's WXC platform improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions; accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols; prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth; and ensuring high application availability at sites with multiple WAN links. The WXC platforms also include a broad set of management tools for monitoring and reporting on WAN and application performance.

"We're gratified that the Malaysia networking community has recognized the merits of our WXC platforms," said Wan Ahmad Kamal, Country Manager, Juniper Networks Malaysia. "Boosting WAN performance is an increasingly high priority for the island state's enterprises as they extend their footprint across the region and around the world. This ultimately helps our customers improve productivity and reduce costs."

The Award was received by Sandra Wong, Juniper Networks Distribution Manager for Asean & India; from Avanti Kumar, Deputy Editor of Computerworld Malaysia (see pic attached : photo courtesy of Computerworld Malaysia)