Hacker Economics: Three Cost Effective Ways to Tackle Hackers

By Greg Bunt, Director of Security, APAC, Juniper Networks

When we think about criminal hackers, we picture a techie who lives and breathes code. The game player, puzzle solver, master of manipulation. But more recently, another picture comes to mind. When you get right down to it, hackers are people, too.

Too often, we focus on the technical side of online threats. We head straight down to the technique level of SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), you name it. We think sessions, authorization, authentication, proxies, or query string manipulation. But we can tend too often to overlook the true root cause of the exploitation—which is less about the hack and more about the hacker.

Perhaps the time has come to start taking advantage of the human factor and to modify our perspective and perception. It's time to hit hackers where it hurts—and that's with their time and money. If there's one thing hackers don't like, it's dealing with tasks they perceive to be a waste of valuable time. And if there's one thing hackers usually don't have a lot of, it's patience. They want quick results, gain, and cash in their pockets.

So considering their economic motivation, what can we do? We can find ways to increase the time, effort and opportunity costs associated with compromising websites, data centers, and networks. We can employ an important, effective, and underutilized security tool, which is the ability to waste their time and devalue their efforts.

Based on first-hand intelligence on attacks aimed at our own infrastructure, we learned that there is a finite amount of time that most attackers will continue to attack a Web application before giving up.

Looking at the attackers who targeted several of our websites and applications, representative of a typical enterprise environment, revealed trends in how hackers approach attacking a website or data center. Some of the most telling trends are rooted in time:

-          Minutes. For a smaller site, which has fewer pages to attack, the average duration of attacks by 99.23 percent of attackers was 22 hours. However, when the mere 0.3 percent of attackers who hack for extended periods of time are removed, the average attack time dropped to only eight minutes per attacker. This indicates if you could frustrate the majority of attackers for more than eight minutes, you'd be able to stop nearly every attack and encourage the attacker to move on to other targets.

-          Hours. On another much larger site, the average duration of the attack was 11 hours and 52 minutes. Again, if you remove the longest of these attacks, which equated, again, to less than one percent of attackers, the average attack duration shrunk to three hours per attacker.

-          A day. There are a small number of attackers who are much more persistent in their pursuits. When compared with the shorter duration attackers, these more persistent folks also tend to launch larger volume attacks with more advanced attack techniques and much more sophisticated tools. Still, even a persistent sophisticated hacker will likely only spend one day attacking a site.

Collectively this demonstrates there is a clear threshold where attackers will move on to other targets if a company can protect its infrastructure for long enough. While the duration differs for each website and depends on the number of web pages, the sophistication of the site content, and the value of the data behind the site, the research still shows that if attackers are frustrated early on in the process, most will go elsewhere. Further, it allows us to focus our time and resources on the more persistent attacks, which tend to be the most devastating.

This can be done by denying instant gratification. In fact, prolong gratification for as long as possible. The key is getting hackers to give up. Find ways to increase the time, effort, and opportunity cost associated with the exploitation. Make them relinquish their quest. Make them realize their time is better spent elsewhere. Make them realise that your site is a losing proposition. Let ‘em cut their losses and move on.

One approach is to trick attackers into exposing themselves when they target a site, and finding ways to frustrate their progress by leading them to hack data that ultimately doesn't exist. This can include slowing connections to the server for the attacker, creating fake directories, simulating broken applications and flooding attacker scanning programs with information about vulnerabilities that don't exist.

This approach has other unintended but positive benefits to the broader community. Wasting the time of attackers means they have that many less hours in the day to attempt to hack others. The very thought puts a slight schadenfreude grin on my face. That isn't so wrong, now is it?

Brocade Names Adam Judd as Vice President for Asia Pacific

Networking Industry Veteran Joins Brocade to Drive Regional Growth

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —Jan . 21, 2014: Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the appointment of Adam Judd to the role of vice president for Asia Pacific (APAC). Judd will be responsible for the strategic direction and management of all sales and business development across the region, delivering aggressive growth targets for the Brocade® Ethernet/IP business and further strengthening the company’s partner and channel strategies.

Judd will be based in Singapore and will report directly to senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations, Jeff Lindholm.

According to IDC, ICT spending in the APAC region, excluding Japan (APEJ), is expected to grow by nine percent in 2014, driven by large markets such as China, India and Indonesia. IDC forecasts that enterprises that are moving towards the cloud in an aggressive fashion will look for a software-defined data centre, as application-aware environments become increasingly critical. The future of the data centre is anticipated to include general-purpose servers and specialty systems that can manage varied workloads. To capitalize on this growth and target the data centre marketplace more aggressively, Brocade has specific business initiatives in place, as outlined at its recent Analyst & Technology Day. Mr. Judd is tasked with building on these initiatives and spearheading growth across APAC.

Mr. Judd brings over 15 years of leadership experience and an impressive track record in data centre networking, enterprise technology and telecommunications to Brocade. He was most recently the acting CEO and Chairman of Tortuga Mobile, a privately held firm that provides mobile payment solutions and services to retailers, financial institutions and mobile carriers.

Prior to Tortuga Mobile, Mr. Judd was senior vice president for APAC at Juniper Networks, where he led the company’s sales and services operations in more than 12 countries, including Japan. Under his leadership, the company’s regional revenue quadrupled. Mr. Judd assumed the regional leadership role in 2002 as a result of Juniper’s acquisition of Unisphere Networks, a company that he cofounded in 1999. He also previously held APAC management positions with Bay Networks and Nortel Networks.

“APAC continues to be one of the fastest growing regions for Brocade and will constitute a larger component of our global business,” said Jeff Lindholm, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Brocade. “Adam is an enterprising, dynamic and passionate leader who has both the global foresight and the necessary industry knowledge that is deeply rooted in Asia. His track record and achievements across the Ethernet networking and service provider markets are outstanding. We strongly believe he has all the right qualities that will prove vital in taking Brocade to the next level in APAC.”

“The data centre networking industry is undergoing transformative changes and Brocade is poised to lead that transformation by leveraging its strong innovation heritage, customer focus and partner ecosystem. Now is a great time to rejoin the industry, and I am very excited to lead Brocade in APAC by building on its strengths and understanding customer needs,” said Adam Judd. “Brocade has led the industry on many fronts, including Ethernet fabrics, network virtualization and software-defined networking. I am committed to working closely with our customers and partners in meeting their needs and bringing these innovations to them in the most accessible way.”

JUNIPER NETWORKS UNVEILS JUNOS PULSE APPCONNECT TO DELIVER SIMPLE PER-APP MOBILE SECURITY FROM APPLICATION TO ENTERPRISE

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 4, 2013 – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today unveiled Junos® Pulse AppConnect software development kit (SDK) that enables per-application virtual private network (VPN) connectivity from both Apple iOS and Google Android devices to Juniper’s Junos Pulse Secure Access Service.

Businesses are facing increasing demands from employees for easy access to corporate data and business applications from any device and anywhere. These demands make ensuring the proper level of security and access to information challenging for IT departments. As companies and government organizations are opening up access to sensitive data to a wider diversity of personal and corporate owned mobile devices, many are struggling to balance security with flexibility. It is imperative that they find ways to provide a level of control over Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) while not burdening end users with security that impairs productivity.

News Highlights:
• Junos Pulse AppConnect –Junos Pulse AppConnect technology and SDK is the first solution to offer per-application SSL VPN connections on both Android and Apple iOS mobile devices. With AppConnect, enterprises will have more granular control over access to corporate networks and applications, preserving the security and integrity of their data, network and resources end-to-end.
o Application and data containerization on the device is a popular approach to MDM for companies that want to segment work and personal data on the device. However, this segmentation is often not extended to network communications.
o AppConnect enables companies, developers and application container solution providers, to secure data flowing from applications and application containers to enterprise networks through Junos Pulse Secure Access Service Gateways.
o Data privacy afforded by the container technology in AppConnect can be extended to the data in transit back to the corporate network– transparently and on a per-application basis – for Android and Apple iOS devices. The potential for corporate data leakage via applications on personally owned devices is subsequently greatly reduced.
o Juniper’s new technology allows for VPN sessions to be established per application versus per device, reducing personal traffic on corporate networks and protecting information that really matters to the organization.
o For users, AppConnect relieves employee concerns that personal data is flowing over the corporate network and makes it much easier to connect.  Users no longer need to launch a separate application to connect to the corporate network securely via VPN; Applications and application containers connect automatically to the private network.
o Junos Pulse AppConnect is generally available next week.

JUNIPER NETWORKS NAMES SHAYGAN KHERADPIR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Kheradpir will also be appointed to the Board of Directors

KUALA LUMPUR, November 13, 2013 — Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced Shaygan Kheradpir as its chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2014.  Kheradpir succeeds Kevin Johnson, who in July announced his plan to retire as CEO.  Johnson will remain as a member of the board.

“The board has conducted a comprehensive search process and we’re very excited to name Shaygan Kheradpir as our next chief executive officer,” said Scott Kriens, chairman of the board, Juniper Networks. “Shaygan has a proven track record of successful business operations and technology leadership, with industry knowledge and technical vision from the perspectives of both telecommunications service providers and global enterprises. Most importantly, Shaygan’s values and vision for the company align very tightly with our own, building a strong foundation for Juniper’s future.”

Kheradpir joins Juniper Networks from Barclays PLC, where he served as the chief operations and technology officer, and as a member of its executive committee.  Prior to joining Barclays, he was executive vice president and chief information and technology officer at Verizon Communications.

“Juniper Networks delivers innovations that are transforming the way people interact, conduct business, and connect as a global community,” said Kheradpir. “I am honored to lead this visionary organization and look forward to working with this group of dedicated and talented professionals to drive the next phase of the company’s growth.”

Kheradpir joined Barclays, a major global financial services provider, in 2011. While responsible for its operations and technology, he was also a catalyst for the bank’s transformation imperatives of 21st century industrialization and customer-focused innovation.

Kheradpir was an original member of the management team when Verizon was created, and through a decade of leadership, was an instrumental member of the team that transitioned Verizon from a regional telephone company to a broadband, media and global communications leader.  During his tenure, he helped to create and implement technologies and products that anticipated future market needs such as IP multi-media and Fiber Optic Service (FiOS).

Kheradpir holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

JUNIPER NETWORKS LAUNCHES PARTNER ADVANTAGE SERVICES TO HELP ACCELERATE PARTNER REVENUE

Partner Advantage Services Puts Partners First, Delivering Value and Increasing Profitability for Partners Worldwide

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – August 12, 2013 – Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced Juniper Partner Advantage Services, an expansion of its Partner Advantage Program launched in 2012. For Juniper Networks’ Elite partners, Juniper Partner Advantage Services are designed to differentiate partner brand, deliver on partner enablement and offer strong rewards for value and performance.

“Juniper Partner Advantage Services amplifies our investment in partners and services by providing unique tools and opportunities that will help drive growth, increase profitability and reward partners that deliver a truly remarkable customer experience.” said Emilio Umeoka, senior vice president, Worldwide Partners, Juniper Networks.

Partner Advantage Services introduces two specialisations. First, Partner Support Services (PSS) is meant to deliver partner value to customers through a wide range of enablement options, tools and services, including traditional maintenance and advanced services. Partner Professional Services (PPS) emphasises the company’s commitment to deliver value to partners’ existing service practices by providing them with the opportunity to lead in a burgeoning services segment.

Juniper Partner Advantage Services signals another critical investment by Juniper Networks to its partner community by combining best-in-class, high-performance networking solutions with expert services on the front end and immediate, localised support on the back end.

Partner Support Services
The Juniper Partner Support Services specialisation – addressing a market estimated at well over $20 billion for network equipment support services – evolved from the current Juniper Networks’ Operate Specialist program. Juniper PSS enables partners to complement and expand their existing support practices easily with robust new offerings, including:

• New course offerings including a new troubleshooting certification, Juniper Networks Certified Support Professional (JNCSP), which enhances support practices for routing, switching and security markets.
• Exclusive direct access to advanced support engineers within the Juniper Networks’ Technical Assistance Center.
• A new, globally-consistent reward-for-value structure for Support Services Specialists that includes built-in flexibility to address theatre market conditions.

Partner Professional Services
The Juniper Partner Professional Services specialisation – addressing a market potential estimated at roughly $15 billion for the network equipment professional services market – is designed to enable, endorse and promote Juniper Networks’ partner capabilities in a partner-led, partner-delivered model of professional services. The specialisation focuses on enabling partners with domain and technology expertise to lead a customer service engagement, help generate more revenue per engagement, and increase profitability through their services practice.

Quotes from Partners in South East Asia:

CommVerge Solutions
“With the Juniper PSS and PPS specializations, partner performance and loyalty is better rewarded. Coupled with the great support and help from the Juniper Networks partner management team, it was the best decision to be among the first Juniper partners to migrate to these specializations.”
-C.K. Lim, country president, CommVerge Solutions Malaysia

PT. Lintas Teknologi Indonesia
“Since migrating to the new Juniper PSS and PPS specializations, PT Lintas closely interacts with the Juniper technical support community and has increased its exposure to Juniper best practices, trainings and tools, allowing our local team to provide seamless support and advanced services to our telecom and service provider customers in Indonesia.”
-Nathan Johnson, technology solutions director, PT. Lintas Teknologi Indonesia

I-TECH DEPLOYS JUNIPER NETWORKS IN NEW GREEN DATA CENTER

New Energy Efficient Facility Built on Integrated Switching, Routing and Security Has Low Total Cost of Ownership and Offers Robust Disaster Recovery and Managed Services

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 15, 2013 – Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that Malaysia’s i-Tech Network Solutions Sdn Bhd (i-Tech) has deployed Juniper Networks’ integrated portfolio of switches, routers and security solutions in its new tier-3 green data center, SAFEHOUSE, to provide customers with disaster recovery solutions, co-location and managed services.

News Highlights
• With IBM as its systems integrator, SAFEHOUSE has been designed as a highly energy-efficient green data center, helping i-Tech maintain a low total cost of ownership and appeal to clients and organizations that place sustainability as a top priority.
• The data center deployed technologies from IBM, Schneider Electric and Juniper Networks and has a capacity of about 100 racks.
• A two-tier data center network architecture, with Juniper Networks® EX Series Ethernet Switches deployed at the core and providing server access, supports i-Tech’s energy-efficiency goals while eliminating network performance bottlenecks and scalability constraints inherent in conventional three-tier network designs.
• Besides reducing cost and complexity by eliminating the need for an aggregation layer, network operations at SAFEHOUSE are simplified by interconnecting multiple EX Series switches in a Virtual Chassis configuration, enabling them to be managed as a single, logical device.
• With Juniper Networks EX Series switches and SRX Series Services Gateways all running the Juniper Networks Junos® operating system, i-Tech benefits from streamlined network administration processes that greatly simplify network management and reduces operational costs.
• The simplified data center architecture and highly-streamlined operational model enables i-Tech to introduce a new-generation of services based on cloud computing, without any constraints at the network level.

i-Tech Network Solutions is the technology arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Ireka Corporation Bhd (KL: IRKA). i-Tech’s clients are predominantly small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) comprised largely of logistics, software and telecommunications companies, with more than 70 percent of them using i-Tech’s managed services.

Supporting Quotes

i-Tech
“Technology has evolved dramatically in recent years, especially with the emergence of the cloud and the rise of subscription-based services. To stay ahead, i-Tech will continue to innovate and expand our range of products and services. SAFEHOUSE—with its highly-efficient, dynamic and scalable network infrastructure—is a state-of-the-art platform for providing clients with secure, reliable and comprehensive end-to-end solutions to help them to create value in their respective businesses and industries.”
-Leonard Yee, CEO, i-Tech Network Solutions Sdn Bhd

IBM
“Juniper Networks’ approach for simplified data center architectures is very much in sync with IBM’s Scalable Modular Data Centre take on building environmentally-friendly, operationally-efficient, high-density computing environments. With a highly-efficient, state-of-the-art infrastructure, i-Tech can grow according to requirements, reducing upfront capital expenditure and backend operating expenses.”
-Albert Lee, country executive, Global Technology Services, IBM Malaysia

Juniper Networks
“i-Tech and its clients are benefitting from an advanced data center network architecture that enables performance, security and services to be scaled without compromise. With a cloud-ready network already in place, i-Tech is positioned to continue benefitting from market differentiation based on service innovation.”
-Wan Ahmad Kamal, managing director, ASEAN, Juniper Networks

JUNIPER NETWORKS ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF ITS PARTNER ADVANTAGE PROGRAM

Partner Advantage Services and Cloud Offer Incremental Revenue Opportunities for Juniper Partners

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – January 15, 2013 - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, announced the expansion of its Partner Advantage program to incorporate services and cloud solutions, at its second annual Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas. The program, which launched in 2012 and now supports more than 12,000 partners, is designed to reach, reward and accelerate partner offerings. Today, to help partners deliver incremental value to their customers, the company outlined its partnering strategy for cloud offerings, and a range of new support, maintenance and professional partner services.

"Last year at the Global Partner Conference, Juniper Networks announced the most significant investment in our partner organization since the company launched into the channel. Throughout 2012, our partners have leveraged the program to enhance their value and drive profitability through new opportunities with their customers,” said Emilio Umeoka, Senior Vice-President, Worldwide Partners and Alliances, Juniper Networks. “Today’s expansion of our Partner Advantage program to include Services and Cloud will arm our partners with integrated, value-add programs and tools that capitalize on these massive market opportunities and can help drive their long-term success within the network.”

• The Juniper Partner Advantage Services program will enable partners to go-to-market with a range of value-added services across the entire infrastructure that help drive improved efficiency, incremental revenue and build customer loyalty. In addition, the integrated product and services offering from Juniper Networks will simplify and reward partner efforts across professional and services specializations.

• The Juniper Partner Advantage Cloud program will help enable partners to bring valuable, high-performance cloud-ready solutions to market. Juniper’s strategy is to acknowledge partner cloud service and infrastructure capabilities and connect them with Juniper’s technology partnerships to create cloud-ready bundles that are easier for providers to deploy and manage. Partners in the program will receive relevant assets, tools and resources to drive cloud differentiation and growth. 

Saudi Information Ministry Migrates to High-Performance Network from Juniper Networks

Integrated End-to-End Solution Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 35%, Improves Performance by 55% and Secures Business Critical Assets

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 17, 2009 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's agency responsible for state broadcasting, printing and information services, has built a new high-performance network for voice, video and data using an end-to-end integrated infrastructure solution from Juniper Networks.

The Juniper solution includes switching, routing and security technologies, and has been designed to provide a fast, reliable, secure infrastructure for the ministry's mission-critical network traffic and applications while reducing total cost of ownership.

"Rather than upgrade our existing network, we decided to migrate to a more flexible IP network with Juniper that would deliver 55% faster performance and security while lowering operating costs by 35%," said Dr. Abdulaziz Almulhem, chief information and strategy officer, Ministry of Culture and Information. "Juniper's best-in-class network infrastructure solutions deliver the high levels of throughput, reliability and quality of service that we require for our sensitive and bandwidth-hungry applications."

The Ministry of Culture and Information is responsible for all information services in Saudi Arabia, including television broadcasting, radio broadcasting, publication of printed material and foreign press relations. Information and news is provided to the public through the Ministry's network of radio and television broadcasting stations, and through the publication and distribution of books and other material. The Ministry of Culture and Information has 38 local publication offices, eight centers for local information and seven centers for foreign information.

The Ministry of Culture and Information has deployed Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches and M Series Multiservice Edge Routers in its corporate backbone network. By deploying a switching and routing solution that leverages JUNOS® Software — a single source operating system integrating routing, switching, security and network services from Juniper — the Ministry can streamline network operations and improve the availability, performance and security of business applications. A commissioned study has estimated costs savings of using JUNOS Software to be as much as 41 percent.

The Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN Appliances provide market-leading, browser-based SSL VPN security capabilities to serve the Ministry's remote access needs with best-in class endpoint security, granular access control, and scalability. The SA Series works with the Juniper Networks IDP Series Intrusion Detection and Prevention Appliances to automatically block malicious traffic coming from outside the network, with the Juniper Networks ISG Series Integrated Security Gateway delivering scalable network and application security.

Additional security technology implemented includes Juniper Networks NetScreen Series Security Systems with integrated firewall, VPN and traffic management functionality, Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service protection at scale to secure the core implementations within The Ministry of Information and Culture's network; and the Juniper Networks WXC Series Application Acceleration Platform, a WAN optimization solution that helps maximize WAN investments and improve application response times for the Ministry's branch offices.

"Organizations now demand more from their networks, in terms of simplicity, performance and value for money," said Gert-Jan Schenk, senior vice president of operations EMEA, Juniper Networks. "Juniper Networks high-performance infrastructure solutions help The Ministry of Culture and Information to create an innovative and operationally efficient environment that helps to reduce costs and raise productivity without compromise."

Juniper Networks Introduces Breakthrough 100 Gigabit Ethernet Interface for T Series Routers

Industry’s First 100 GE Router Interface to Provide Next Generation of Scale Required to Support Virtualization and Cloud Computing Trends as T Series Crosses 5000 Units Shipped Milestone

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 9, 2009 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today introduced the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) router interface card, which will be delivered on the T1600 Core Router.

Driven by rapidly increasing network traffic—with video, advanced wireless services and emerging trends such as cloud computing as key drivers—core networks will soon require a new generation of scale, and 100 GE interfaces will provide an order of magnitude increase over the majority of interfaces available today.

As the first company to introduce 100 GE interfaces on a core router, Juniper Networks is ensuring its T1600 will provide long-term investment protection and the scalability and flexibility needed to fuel revenue from high-capacity services such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and video. With a significant increase in per-link capacity, Juniper’s 100 GE interface card will enable service providers and data centers to reduce the number of interfaces required in their networks, yielding significant gains in simplified topologies and enhanced operational efficiencies—helping to lower total cost of ownership.

The 100 GE interfaces being introduced today will build on—and further enhance—several groundbreaking Juniper core innovations in recent years, including:
The T1600 core router: introduced in 2007, the T1600 remains the industry’s highest capacity single chassis core router, the world’s most energy efficient core router, and the only core router with 100 gigabits/second of per-slot capacity
Juniper Control System (JCS) 1200: the industry’s first—and still the only—high performance control plane scaling platform, which introduced independent scaling of forwarding and control plane resources and hardware-based virtualization for T Series routers
TX Matrix Plus: which enables multiple T1600s to be combined with the JCS 1200 to create highly scalable, flexible hardware-based virtualized routers.

Along with these innovations, 100 GE will help wireless and wireline service providers, cloud builders and data centers fully realize the promise of virtualization to consolidate resources, improve efficiency and drive down costs. Juniper is the only company that has announced this unique combination of highly scalable, efficient core routers, large-scale virtualization and 100 GE interfaces—and is therefore uniquely positioned to help customers deliver next generation services such as LTE, software as a service (SaaS) and Networks as a Service (NaaS).

“Networking is moving from an era where high-speed trunks were only found deep in the backbone to one where high-speed trunks are needed all the way out to the edge offices. It’s moving from a time when capacity only added to your traffic-handling capability to one where capacity is essential in creating a high-QoS fabric for virtualization of applications, servers, and content,” said Tom Nolle, president and CEO, CIMI Corporation. “Juniper is adding 100G, and it’s adding that capacity inside a broad set of tools to support the kinds of applications and network missions that will make 100G ubiquitous. They’re announcing a 100G interface, but they will be delivering a 100G ecosystem.”

The innovations listed above, as well as many others, have helped the T Series become the industry’s most widely deployed core routing family. Juniper has shipped over 5000 T Series to more than 220 customers around the world—including more than 500 T1600s in just over a year of availability. According to Synergy Research, in the past five years, Juniper’s share of the core routing market has grown by 44 percent—with the company gaining 11 points of share as others have seen share declines[1].

All of these platforms are powered by JUNOS® software, a single operating system integrating routing, switching, security and network services from Juniper Networks. By enabling customers and partners to develop applications on JUNOS software through the Partner Solution Development Platform (additional fees apply), Juniper enables customers to scale the services plane with unique and customized services. Customers and partners can use the Partner Solution Development Platform to develop and deliver innovative new value-add services for improved productivity and profitability.

“100 GE has always been inevitable, it has just been a question of when—now trends such as cloud computing, data center consolidation and virtualization are making the need for 100 GE more acute and urgent than ever before,” said Opher Kahane, senior vice president and general manager, High-End Systems Business Unit, Juniper Networks. “Building on over a decade of groundbreaking achievements in the core such as the industry’s first 100 gigabit-per-slot routers, Juniper is again leading the industry with 100 GE interfaces. This is the type of innovation that drives customers to pick Juniper for their high-performance networks and ensures long-term investment protection.”

The 100 GE interface card is expected to be deployed in customer test networks before the end of 2009.

[1] According to Synergy Research, Juniper’s share of the core routing market was 25% in Q1 2004 compared to 36% Q1 2009.

Juniper Networks Named Top Network Security Vendor in Asia Pacific

Exceptional business performance the key to being honored at the prestigious 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - June 5, 2009 - Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the company was named the Asia Pacific Network Security Vendor of the Year at the prestigious 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Singapore.

A leading global consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, recognized leading companies and individuals from various segments of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry in a lavish ceremony in Singapore last night.

“Expanding networks and increasing security threats are driving the growth in demand for network security solutions in Asia Pacific,” said Adam Judd, senior vice president for Asia Pacific, Juniper Networks. “As security threats become more sophisticated, businesses today need to rethink their security strategy. They need to consider security solutions that help them achieve optimum levels of protection from internal and external threats, keeping their organization secure and focused on its core business. This achievement validates Juniper’s leadership in delivering high-performance network security products to the market.”

The award is part of Frost & Sullivan’s program to recognize outstanding performance in the Asia Pacific ICT industry, and is selected by a distinguished panel of judges comprising senior executives from the industry including CIOs, CTOs and Frost & Sullivan analysts.

“This award is a testament of the relentless efforts of the team at Juniper Networks in delivering exceptional business performance for the year 2008 and we believe the company is set to further enhance its Security footprint in the region,” said Nitin Bhat, senior vice president of Asia Pacific ICT practice, Frost & Sullivan.
For more information on the awards, please visit www.ict-awards.com.

NTT Communications Accelerates Security Innovation with Juniper Networks Open IP Solution Development Program

Juniper Partner Solution Development Platform Enables Customers to Create Unique Value-Added Services with JUNOS Software

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 28, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, announced that NTT Communications (NTT Com) has joined the Juniper Networks Open IP Solution Development Program (OSDP).
As a member of the OSDP, Juniper Networks provides NTT Com with access to the Partner Solution Development Platform (PSDP), which enables customers and partners to develop specialized applications on its best-in-class JUNOS® Software.

NTT Com is utilizing the PSDP to expedite the delivery of specialized security services focused on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefix hijacking protection. NTT Com is developing BGP prefix hijacking protection as part of the service provider's involvement in the Japanese government's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications research project.

With the PSDP, NTT Com can continue to create its own new and unique applications that are fully supported by the network, control and data planes. Allowing applications to run directly on the Juniper router — tightly integrated with JUNOS — delivers a level of performance, reliability and scale that cannot be achieved by similar applications running on separate network appliances.

"In today's competitive environment, NTT Com is always looking for new ways to differentiate their products and services. Juniper's PSDP helps us accomplish that by accelerating the pace with which we can create new and unique functionality," said Masato Minamisawa, executive manager of IP Technology Department, Broadband IP Service Business Division, at NTT Communications. "With Juniper's PSDP we get all of the strengths and benefits of JUNOS and we are able to leverage our internal development teams to enhance our network and deliver the differentiated services that our customers require, both faster than our competitors and at a lower total cost."

The PSDP provides resources, including a software development kit (SDK) for carrier grade routing platforms, with intelligent and secure interfaces to JUNOS routing and service functions, and technical and business support. With the Juniper PSDP, service providers can develop and deploy the specific capabilities that are important to the success of their business models, such as security, data stream manipulation, deep packet inspection and specialized protocols.
NTT Com's route hijacking protection solution will be beta tested in October 2009 and is expected to be deployed in the network in March of 2010. NTT continues to develop additional applications through its involvement in the OSDP and PSDP program.

"NTT Communications is proving the value of the PSDP and OSDP program," said Craig Bardenheuer, vice president of Open IP Business, Juniper Networks. "The applications NTT Communications is writing to provide enhanced security services are perfect examples of how Juniper customer partners can drive their own innovation with JUNOS Software for the deployment of new and differentiated network capabilities that will provide increased value to Internet users."

JUNOS Software is the single operating system integrating routing, switching, security and network services from Juniper Networks. With its modular architecture and single-source code, JUNOS provides a proven foundation for delivering best-in-class performance, reliability, security and scale with attractive total cost of ownership. With continuous systems availability, intelligence and automated operations efficiency, JUNOS Software offers providers a unique view of the services and network availability their customers require, which helps to deliver an enhanced user experience.

Juniper Networks Announces General Availability of EX 8216 Ethernet Switch, Purpose-Built for High–Performance Cloud Computing Environments

German-based Research Organization Deploys Modular Switch for Low Latency, Scalable Network

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 19, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, announced the availability of the EX8216 Ethernet switch, a 16-slot high-performance platform with switch fabric capacity of up to 12.4 terabits optimized for today's high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data center and cloud computing environments. The EX8216 switch is a member of the EX8200 line of modular switches, purpose-built to deliver the wire-rate performance, low latency and carrier-class reliability that enable businesses to consolidate network layers and reduce capital and operational expenses across the infrastructure.

The EX8200 line, which also includes the eight-slot EX8208, delivers an industry-leading combination of port density, power efficiency and scalability that cloud computing environments require to support next-generation Web 2.0 applications. With a per-slot capacity of 320 Gbps and delivering up to two billion packets per second (pps) performance, the EX8200 line of switches offer a built-in migration path to 100 GbE, providing businesses with the scalability they require to future-proof their networks.

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, one of the world's foremost applied research organizations with a reputation for innovation in its thinking and structure, is one of the first customers to deploy the EX8200 line of switches in their production network.

"To remain in step with the changing needs of our industrial clients, we have to ensure that the network infrastructure underpinning our activity is as flexible, scalable and responsive as we are," said Andreas Abele, IT manager of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. "We have deployed the EX8200 line of Ethernet switches from Juniper Networks because they help to create a data center environment that is efficient, streamlined and highly cost-effective."

Complete Portfolio of High-Performance Ethernet Switches
The EX Series Ethernet Switches, which include the upcoming EX2200 and the EX2500, EX3200 and EX4200 lines in addition to the EX8200 line, advance the economics of networking by enabling a high-performance network infrastructure based on three key tenets — operational simplicity, carrier-class reliability and integrated security — that deliver ubiquitous access, reduce network downtime and enhance overall security to shared assets across the extended enterprise. For more information on the EX Series Ethernet Switches, please visit www.juniper.net/switch.

"The new EX8216 switch can deliver twice the performance while consuming one-third less power and one-sixth less space than the leading competitor," said Wan Ahmad Kamal, Malaysia Country Manger for Juniper Networks. "With the rest of Juniper's portfolio, the EX8216 enables new data center and cloud computing architectures that lower complexity, deliver increased functionality and reduce overall total cost of ownership through innovative system designs that can lower both capital and operating expenses."

JUNOS® Software Reduces Complexity, Increases Resiliency and Lowers TCO
The EX Series along with many Juniper routers and its security services gateways run on JUNOS Software, which delivers unmatched carrier-class reliability and operational simplicity. A study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR) in February 2009 reported that companies that use JUNOS achieved a 41 percent reduction in overall network operations costs across specific tasks such as planning, deploying and provisioning of resources. For additional study results, see "Independent Study Shows TCO Improvements with JUNOS Implementation."

In addition, Juniper's Network and Security Manager (NSM) provides a unified device management solution for the EX Series, as well as Juniper routers and security devices.

Juniper Networks Introduces Next Generation of Network Infrastructure for the Distributed Enterprise in Malaysia

Industry's Only Multi-service Network Infrastructure Based on a Single OS Enables Enterprises to Reduce OPEX by 41 Percent*

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 13, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced its next generation network infrastructure for the distributed enterprise in Malaysia, including new additions to the SRX Series Services Gateways and a new line of EX Series Ethernet Switches.

The new SRX240 can deliver up to five times the security performance for half the cost of competitive alternatives and the new EX Series delivers enterprise-class gigabit access connectivity at a lower list price than equivalent devices.

Offered as part of the Juniper Networks Distributed Enterprise Solutions with the Network and Security Manager (NSM) and JUNOS® Software, customers can design and deploy efficient networks that provide industry leading performance and security at lower operational costs across locations of all sizes.

Juniper Networks Distributed Enterprise Solutions are an essential part of the company's commitment to delivering IT services without the constraints and outdated cost structures found in traditional networks. As legacy networks expand or change, the use of single-purpose appliances grows, increasing the number of operating systems, network layers and management applications. This drives up complexity and leads to unnecessarily high costs.

With the consistency of a single source network operating system, coupled with centralized management and integrated security, the Distributed Enterprise Solutions offer the industry's first integrated multi-service network infrastructure designed so enterprise IT experts can extend a high performance headquarters-like experience to employees at sites of any size.
New SRX Series Services Gateways

The four new additions to the SRX Series family are based on the industry's first Dynamic Services Architecture, an extensible approach that simultaneously scales integrated services and network capacity to reduce the escalating demands and risks placed on the network.

These new products can support a complete suite of unified threat management and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect the network from the latest content borne threats. Select SRX models feature hardware based Content Security Acceleration for high-performance inline anti-virus and intrusion prevention services (IPS) as well as Power over Ethernet (PoE) and standards-based SIP voice gateway capability.

Four models are available: the SRX100 with a variety of fixed form-factor options; the SRX210 with single-slot modularity; the SRX240 with 16 on board Gbps Ethernet ports and four expansion slots; and the SRX650 with eight expansion slots for WAN/LAN interfaces, available redundant power supplies and available redundant Services and Routing Engines.

All models have integrated security, routing and switching. Firewall/IPS performance ranges from 600/50 to 7000/900 Mbps and list prices start at US $699. This is the first time the $699 starting point has been achieved by a product with this breadth of integrated, high-performance networking.

New EX Line of Ethernet Switches
The new EX2200 line of fixed-configuration Ethernet switches offers an economical, plug-and-play, high-performance, low-power solution for access-layer deployments in branch offices and campus networks consuming less than two Watts per port at a lower price than competitive Fast Ethernet enterprise access switches. Featuring JUNOS Software-based Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching capabilities, the EX2200 Ethernet Switches satisfy the access connectivity requirements of today's high-performance businesses.

Four models are available: the EX2200-24T-4G and EX2200-48T-4G offer 24 and 48 10/100/1000BASE-T ports respectively, while the EX2200-24P-4G and EX2200-48P-4G offer similar configurations with full IEEE 802.3af PoE to support converged network devices such as telephones, video cameras and wireless LAN (WLAN) access points.

The Distributed Enterprise Solutions work collaboratively with Juniper's recently announced Adaptive Threat Management Solutions and Unified Access Control (UAC) solutions. Adaptive Threat Management including NSM and the STRM Series Security Threat Response Manager delivers real-time threat defense, unparalleled network-wide visibility and control, unified device and policy management, and centralized automation.

UAC solutions include the IC Series Unified Access Control Appliances with the UAC Agent and agent-less mode, and leverage the EX Series (and existing vendor-agnostic 802.1X access points and switches) as well as the SSG Series Secure Services Gateway and SRX Series as enforcement points.

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR) in February 2009 demonstrates that through the use of JUNOS and Juniper switches and routers, companies achieved reductions in operational costs for specific network operations tasks, including planning and provision, deployment, planned and unplanned network events. Among other top-line results, the study reports a 41% reduction in overall network operations costs based on dollar savings across specific task categories. For additional study results, see "Independent Study Shows TCO Improvements with JUNOS Implementation."

The JUNOS Software Advantage
JUNOS Software delivers unmatched carrier-class reliability and operational simplicity across Juniper's product portfolio. To maintain uniformity and quality, Juniper adheres to a disciplined JUNOS development process that uses a single source code base and employs a highly available modular architecture that prevents isolated failures from bringing an entire system down.

Centralized Management with NSM
NSM, a highly scalable unified device management solution for Juniper's network infrastructure, provides centralized device lifecycle management, granular policy configuration and comprehensive monitoring, reporting and investigative tools. This enables the distributed enterprise to maximize the security of their connectivity and value add hosting services while improving IT efficiency.

Advanced Insight Solutions (AIS) Intelligence
Juniper Networks Distributed Enterprise Solutions can also leverage the AIS intelligence built into JUNOS Software. AIS is the enabling technology for advanced levels of Juniper's J-Care Technical Services that effectively provides the support of a technical-engineer as built in capability within every device run by JUNOS, taking hours or days out of typical response times. AIS is available with J-Care Efficiency, Continuity and Agility levels of support. Juniper's proactive technical support streamlines operations across the full routing, switching and network services infrastructure, enabling businesses to significantly lower operating expenses and increase availability.

Managed Services
Managed service providers seeking to deliver new and enhanced value-added services can now benefit from the marriage of Juniper's high-performance routing and connectivity heritage with leading advanced security and management services to decrease service delivery costs and reduce risks associated with introducing new services. With a consistent implementation of connectivity, security, and management features, managed services providers have the choice and flexibility to create and deploy services using a variety of strategies, including network-based as well as Customer Premise Equipment based offering.

In addition, the Distributed Enterprise Solutions feature centralized management and services activation capabilities that enable managed service providers to minimize the need for expensive truck rolls to provision customer premise based services, enabling higher margins, lower costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

Pricing and Availability
The new SRX210, SRX240 and SRX650 Services Gateways are available today. Base list pricing for the SRX210 is USD $1,099, the SRX240 is USD $2,999 and the SRX650 is USD $16,000. The new SRX100 is expected to be available in 3Q09 with a starting list price of USD $699. The new EX2200 line is expected to be available in 1Q10 with a starting list price of USD $2,400.

Juniper Routers and Switches Power the Core of ESnet4 Research & Education Network

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, May 11, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) ESnet4, a best-in-class research and education (R&E) network built with Juniper routers and switches, has won the highly coveted "Excellence.gov" award from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC).

Excellence.gov awards are among the most prestigious given in the U.S. federal government arena, reflecting ACT/IAC's position as the leading association of government and industry leaders collaborating on common issues facing the federal IT and contracting community.

ESnet4 was named the winner in the category of "Excellence in Leveraging Technology," one of five 2009 Excellence.gov categories. More than 60 federal programs submitted projects for consideration. A panel of judges made up of federal government and industry executives reviewed the nominations, selected 21 finalists, and announced the five winners at the annual ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, April 14, in Washington, D.C.

Juniper Networks MX Series Ethernet Services Routers and EX4200 Ethernet Switches comprise the entire core of the multiple-10Gbps ESnet infrastructure. Officially known as the Energy Sciences Network Fourth Generation, ESnet4 provides direct connections to more than 40 major DOE research sites, as well as fast interconnections to more than 100 other global R&E networks, allowing scientists to make effective use of unique DOE research facilities and computing resources independent of time and geographic location.

ESnet4 allows the R&E community to access, share and analyze massive amounts of data being generated by large-scale scientific research projects around the world. These include the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland; the Earth System Grid II (ESG) for research in global climate change; and many other key research initiatives. The LHC alone is expected to deliver 100Gbps of data nonstop onto ESnet4 by 2010.

As the award-winning nomination stated, "ESnet4 is able to reliably move the massive datasets resulting from large-scale scientific experiments. Through a combination of innovative uses of existing technologies and the development and application of homegrown networking protocols, estimates are that ESnet4 will generate cost savings of more than $20 million between FY2007-2013 over scaling the previous generation network, and availability of the network increased from 99.989 percent in 2006 to 99.997 percent in 2008."

Steve Cotter, ESnet department head at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, accepted the award on behalf of the ESnet4 team and the DOE Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research. "We are honored and delighted to receive this recognition for ESnet4," said Cotter. "ESnet plays a vital role in the U.S. and world research community, and its performance and reliability are absolutely essential to hundreds of critical programs. We are proud to serve our R&E clients with near-Five 9's availability, and we are happy to recognize the role that Juniper continues to play in ensuring our networks meet those high performance standards."
Juniper Networks announced its contributions to ESnet4 earlier this year.

Juniper Networks and IBM Pursue Shared Vision of IT Transformation

Continued Collaboration Offers Customers Choice and Flexibility in Networking Solutions for Today and Tomorrow’s Data Center

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – April 29, 2009 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Juniper and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) are continuing to broaden their relationship.

Since 2007, the two companies have been working together on joint technology solutions, standards development, network management and managed security services. Specifically in the data center, IBM has included Juniper Networks switching, routing and security products into their data center network portfolio with IBM playing an invaluable role of systems integrator.

“Juniper is an important supplier of networking products,” said Jim Comfort, IBM vice president, enterprise initiatives. “IBM is already a reseller of Juniper’s Ethernet switches and routers, and we continue to look for opportunities to expand this relationship to provide increasing choice for our customers and the flexibility to support their dynamic infrastructure needs.” Learn more about the IBM and Juniper relationship.

“IBM and Juniper share a common vision to continually evolve information infrastructures as a strategic element of business success, and together, we are committed to delivering superior networking solutions to customers,” said Hitesh Sheth, executive vice president and general manager, Ethernet Platforms Business Group, Juniper Networks. “We’ve been very pleased with our progress to-date with IBM in our seven collaborative solutions and shared sales goals, especially in the data center. As we look to the next phase of our relationship, we remain focused on delivering optimal joint infrastructure solutions for our customers.”

Bringing Cloud Computing to Earth
Most recently, the two companies jointly collaborated on a global technology demonstration highlighting how enterprises can seamlessly extend their private data center clouds. The demonstration between Silicon Valley and Shanghai showed a use case where customers could take advantage of remote servers in a secure public cloud to ensure high priority applications are given preference over the lower priority ones when computing resources become constrained. IBM and Juniper are installing these advanced networking capabilities into IBM’s nine worldwide Cloud Labs for customer engagements. Once installed in the nine worldwide Cloud Labs, IBM and Juniper will be able to seamlessly move client computing workloads between private and publicly managed cloud environments enabling customers to reliably deliver on service level agreements.

For the past year, IBM and Juniper have been working together on the Stratus Project, Juniper’s initiative to create a single data center fabric that will deliver a quantum jump in scale, performance and simplicity, with the flexibility to support fully converged and virtualized data center environments. The Stratus Project will address the modern mega data center’s pain points and endeavors to enable cloud computing to fulfill its maximum potential.

Juniper Networks Introduces High-Capacity Comprehensive Video Monitoring and Analysis System

Router-Integrated StreamScope eRM Improves the Scale, Performance and Reliability of Video Monitoring; Enables Reduced Total Cost of Ownership through Operational Efficiency

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, April 14, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today introduced StreamScope™ eRM, an integrated video monitoring and analysis solution for its M and MX Series routers.

StreamScope eRM enables network operators to perform deep, application-layer video stream quality monitoring within edge routing infrastructure, which improves performance and scale, and can lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through simplified network design and operations—with increased power and space efficiency.

The ability to monitor and analyze MPEG streams in real-time is critical to ensuring the quality of video services over cable, wireless and IPTV networks.

Traditionally, comprehensive video monitoring functionality required dedicated appliances that are challenging to implement cost-efficiently without compromising performance, scale or network operations. By fully integrating comprehensive video monitoring capabilities within the high-performance Juniper Networks M and MX Series platforms and JUNOS software, StreamScope eRM eliminates the need for video monitoring specific appliances—and greatly improves the performance, reliability and scalability of video monitoring solutions.

"The increasing prominence of IP transport in video delivery networks creates new challenges around quality assurance," said Ian Olgeirson, senior analyst, SNL Kagan. "It's absolutely crucial that operators ensure the high value of content for which they are being paid a premium without adding undue complexity to the network."

Developed using Juniper's Partner Solution Development Platform (PDSP), the StreamScope eRM offering builds upon the technology of Triveni Digital, a leading provider of digital signal monitoring and analysis solutions and subsidiary of LG Electronics (LGE), to deliver a comprehensive MPEG analysis solution that is qualified, sold and supported by Juniper Networks.

Juniper Networks PSDP enables customers and partners to develop specialized, value-added applications on its best-in-class JUNOS Software. These specialized applications can be used in individual customers' networks or, as in the case of StreamScope eRM, sold and supported as Juniper product offerings after undergoing extensive validation testing by Juniper Networks.
By delivering applications that are tightly integrated with JUNOS and run directly on Juniper routing platforms, the PSDP enables customers to purchase a broader portfolio of end-to-end solutions through Juniper's direct and indirect channels.

"Service providers need to be more proactive at managing high-bandwidth video traffic, and the integration of video analysis and monitoring into routing platforms can accomplish this with maximum scale and performance," said Ray Mota, chief research officer, Synergy Research Group.

"In addition, this announcement exemplifies the value of Juniper's PSDP to provide customers with offerings that are built on best-in-class technology, fully integrated with the router infrastructure, and delivered at the right time to meet market demands."

StreamScope eRM will be supported on both M Series and MX Series routers, and is an important element of Juniper's Intelligent Sevices Edge portfolio, which leverages Juniper Networks' unmatched architectural integrity to support flexible services and service velocity, with enhanced operational efficiency.

This comprehensive router integrated video analysis capability uniquely enables StreamScope eRM to rapidly identify potential quality issues at multiple levels, from the network layer through the MPEG layer.

Because StreamScope eRM can be seamlessly integrated into existing Juniper routers, customers will be able to leverage deployed M and MX Series platforms to deliver integrated video monitoring and analysis capabilities, providing investment protection and lower TCO, while ensuring superior scalability.

With support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet links, StreamScope eRM is offered with up to 10 times the scalability of many typical video monitoring appliances. Additionally, the tight coupling with JUNOS forwarding and control planes ensures simple, unified device and network management.
"Video monitoring is an increasingly critical capability for cable operators and IPTV and wireless providers, as customer expectations for high-quality video entertainment continue to grow," said Wan Ahmad Kamal, Juniper Networks Malaysia Country Manager.

"By increasing the scalability, performance and efficiency of video monitoring and driving down TCO, StreamScope eRM raises the bar for video assurance solutions; and is a powerful testament to the open innovation fostered by our Partner Solution Development Platform."
StreamScope eRM is expected to be available as an optional feature for the MX and M Series in 2H09.

Juniper Networks Sweeps Category, Named Overall Winner at The 2009 CRN Channel Champion Awards Ceremony

Company Ranks No. 1 in Network Security Appliances, Receives Highest Score in Support, Technical and Financial Evaluation Criteria

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 25, 2009 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), announced that it was named the overall winner and 2009 CRN Channel Champion in the category of Network Security Appliances.

The coveted honor was presented to Juniper Networks Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels Frank Vitagliano during an awards ceremony which took place in New Orleans, on March 10 at the 2009 XChange Solution Provider Conference. Earlier this month, CRN also recognized Vitagliano as one of the IT industry's top 2009 Channel Chiefs.

The annual CRN Channel Champions is touted as one of the largest, broad-based technology integrator market studies in the IT industry. Completed annually, the study measures IT solution providers' overall perceptions of vendor products and services. According to CRN, the results of the survey are used by solution providers and technology integrators throughout the industry to evaluate vendors and their programs.

"Solution Providers have come to rely on the CRN Channel Champions study as a way to evaluate the leading technology vendors playing in the IT channel today," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "We applaud Juniper Networks for their overall win in the Network Security Appliances category and for bringing to market high-quality solutions and support resources that deliver a strong total financial opportunity to channel partners."

This year, six security vendors were evaluated in the Networking Security Appliances Category on three distinct criteria: Technical Criteria, Support Criteria and Financial Criteria. Juniper Networks received the highest ranking score within each criteria. This is the first year Juniper Networks has earned the overall win in the Network Security Appliances category.

"This is a great win for Juniper Networks and really goes to show that our continued investments in the channel and R&D are resonating with IT solution providers and enabling our J-Partners to grow more profitably and truly differentiate themselves in the market," says Wan Ahmad Kamal, Juniper Networks’ Country Manager for Malaysia..

"Last year, we focused our channel efforts around partner enablement, partner profitability, and teaming. In 2009, we've accelerated these efforts and placed even greater focus on helping our partners understand the total financial opportunity Juniper Networks technology brings to them and their enterprise customers."

Juniper Networks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm’s Enterprise Network Firewalls Magic Quadrant

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 18, 2008 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that the company is positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner's recently published Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls1. The report evaluates vendors based on the company's ability to execute and completeness of vision.

"The Leaders quadrant contains a mix of large and midsize vendors, with the common element of making products that are built for enterprise requirements," as stated in the Gartner Enterprise Network Firewall report.

"These requirements include a wide range of models, support for virtualization and virtual LANs, and a management and reporting capability that is designed for complex and high-volume environments, such as multitier administration and rules/policy minimization. Next-generation firewall capability is an important element as enterprises move away from having dedicated IPS appliances at their perimeter and remote locations.

Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability rather than treating the firewall as a commodity and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products. Common characteristics include handling the highest throughput with minimal performance loss and options for hardware acceleration."

"Our positioning in the 'Leaders' quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls as the greatest network firewall vendor among competitors with the strongest blend of price, management and performance demonstrates our continued leadership in high-performance network security," said Wan Ahmad Kamal, Country Manager of Juniper Networks Malaysia.

"Juniper will continue to deliver innovative and comprehensive network security solutions that enable high-performance businesses to quickly and cost-effectively take advantage of new service opportunities, address changing business requirements and deliver superior user experiences."

To view a copy of the Gartner report, compliments of Juniper Networks, go tohttp://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/juniper/vol4/article1/article1.html.

Indonesia’s Education Department DIKNAS) Accelerates Country’s Largest WAN and Significantly Increases ROI with Juniper Networks

Juniper’s Integrated Application Acceleration and Secure Routing Chosen as Powerful and Reliable Solution Offering Fastest Throughput in the Industry

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 12, 2008 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that the Indonesian Ministry of National Education (DIKNAS) has reduced traffic latency, improved network application response time and eliminated wasted bandwidth on its school network -- Indonesia's largest WAN -- with Juniper Networks application acceleration and routing integrated on a single platform.

The Juniper Networks WXC Integrated Services Module (ISM) 200 with the J2300 Services Routers can deliver the fastest throughput currently offered in the application acceleration industry, enabling DIKNAS to boost network performance and value, and increase operational simplicity for 1140 schools and other sites across the country.

End-user spending on integrated WAN optimization products is among the fastest growing categories in the application acceleration market, according to Gartner1, a leading information technology research and advisory company.

With the WXC ISM 200 operating at 10Mbps of compressed throughput, Juniper offers the fastest solution in this category, a key differentiator to support DIKNAS' plans for enabling powerful and reliable new network applications for its schools, such as VoIP, centralized database access, video-on-demand and video conferencing.

"Juniper delivers unmatched functional integration of application acceleration with secure routing on a single platform, which enables us to deploy applications and services more quickly to our constituents," said Khalid Mustafa, head of the network division for DIKNAS.

"We are maximizing our ROI in addition to network traffic performance. Our IT staff is also more productive, with less management overhead, allowing us to use our applications to create a real competitive advantage."

The WXC Integrated Services Module is installed like a Physical Interface Module (PIM) in the J-Series router and provides the application acceleration features of WAN acceleration. The integration of application acceleration with branch routing platforms provides a consolidated solution that provides more operational simplicity at branch offices.

The WXC ISM 200 is a best-in-class application acceleration platform, which recently won a Best of Show Award at Interop Tokyo 2008 for improving application performance over the WAN by 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 J-series Services Routers offer predictable high performance and a variety of flexible interfaces that deliver secure, reliable network connectivity to remote, branch and regional offices. All models run modular JUNOS® software, which offers many advanced services (MPLS, IPv6, QoS, multicast, etc) and security (stateful firewall and IPSec VPN), delivering high levels of security, uptime and performance at reduced operational costs.

"The WXC ISM 200 is highly effective and consistent in widely distributed networks for increasing productivity while reducing complexity and costs," said Wan Ahmad Kamal, Malaysia Country Manager for Juniper Networks.

"We are committed to delivering functionally integrated solutions that set new metrics in high-performance networking. This empowers educational organizations such as DIKNAS to quickly scale a broad range of applications and deliver quality education to the next generation of learners."

Juniper Networks Helps Laboratory of Neuro Imaging Double Network Performance, Cut IT Management Time in Half

Juniper's High-Performance Network Infrastructure Accelerates the Deployment of Applications and Services for Conducting Cutting-Edge Research

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 11, 2008 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has reduced the cost and complexity of deploying a high-performance network infrastructure with Juniper's integrated routing, switching and security portfolio.

LONI has doubled network performance, reduced network management time by 50 percent and increased user productivity with secure anywhere, anytime access to computing resources using any Web-enabled device. This allows researchers to shorten the time from theory to results and improve the productivity of their neural research.

"During our evaluation we brought in three vendors, including Juniper and our incumbent networking vendor, to evaluate solutions based on performance and ease of management," said Rico Magsipoc, chief technology officer at LONI.

"We selected Juniper's MX-series routers and EX-series switches for our network upgrade based on the elegance of the JUNOS® software and the overall simplicity of how the routers and switches are managed. The Secure Access SSL VPN appliance enables researchers from around the world to securely collaborate on research projects. Juniper's networking and security portfolio has simplified our operations while helping us scale performance. Based on the feedback we are receiving from our research community, it is clear the network is much faster."

Located at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), LONI is a leader in the development of advanced computational algorithms and scientific structures for the comprehensive and quantitative mapping of brain structure and function.

LONI has the largest neuro-imaging database in the world with more than 25,000 unique scans and at nearly a petabyte in size. Hundreds of researchers work with datasets ranging from 20MB to several hundred gigabytes.

As usage of their high-performance computing (HPC) cluster grew, the network infrastructure was straining under the demands.

LONI set out to improve performance and simplify the network in order to improve both researcher and IT staff productivity, and overall reliability, while controlling costs. LONI selected the Juniper Networks MX-series Ethernet services router, EX-series Ethernet switches and Secure Access SSL VPN appliances

LONI has deployed Juniper's MX960 Ethernet services router in the network core. Juniper's MX-series of high-performance Ethernet services routers provide the flexibility and reliability to support advanced services and applications. The MX-series delivers the most advanced routing features, including quality of service (QoS) features, multicast support, and industry-leading MPLS capabilities, as well as the ability to scale functionality without compromising performance.

LONI has deployed the Juniper Networks EX 4200 series Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology and deployed them as top-of-rack switches for its HPC cluster. Virtual Chassis technology allows up to 10 EX 4200 series switches to be interconnected to operate and be managed as a single, logical system. With Virtual Chassis technology, LONI's IT staff gets the reliability, manageability and high-port densities of traditional chassis-based systems in a compact, cost-effective form factor.

Critical to the selection of Juniper's MX- and EX-series switches was JUNOS software. JUNOS software dramatically increased the productivity of LONI's network engineering team, simplifying network upgrades and improving reliability with the power of a single source network operating system and a single modular architecture across its routing and switching infrastructure. With JUNOS software, LONI was able to eliminate frequent operating system upgrades previously required with their incumbent vendor.

In addition to the productivity gains introduced with a Juniper Networks high-performance network, researchers and IT staff at LONI can now securely access applications and network resources using any device, from anywhere using a standard Web browser. With Juniper's Secure Access SSL VPN appliances, LONI significantly lowers the total cost of deploying end-to-end layered security, eliminating the need to deploy and manage client-side software to deliver secure remote access to research-critical resources.

"Customers such as LONI require flexibility and choice with a secure, high-performance network infrastructure that scales with increasingly demanding requirements," said Michaela Mezzo, director, Gov-Ed Americas at Juniper Networks. "Our integrated routing, security and switching platforms reduce network complexity and help institutions drive down total cost of ownership so that they can focus on meeting their critical research objectives."