Over a three-day period, Juniper Networks announced that two former Microsoft executives and one from Cisco were joining the company’s marketing and global partner efforts. – Juniper Networks is bulking up its marketing and channel prowess by raiding
the executive ranks of rivals Cisco Systems and Microsoft.
Juniper
last week announced that two former Microsoft officials made the jump to help
the networking company build up its enterprise marketing and global partner…
Juniper Networks has acquired virtualization security vendor Altor Networks for $95 million. – Juniper Networks announced today it has bought virtual security vendor Altor
Networks for $95 million.
The acquisition builds on an existing relationship between the two
companies, and Juniper actually invested in the company earlier this year.
Founded in 2007, Altor specializes in intrusion pre…
The Ethernet switch market in the third quarter hit records for port shipments and revenue, thanks to 10GbE demand and products from HP, Juniper, Cisco and F5, according to DellOro Group. – DellOro Group analysts in February predicted the
Ethernet switching space would continue to expand in 2010, fueled in large
part by the growing demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology both as a
connectivity technology for servers and as an aggregation tool in data centers.
Numbers
from the th…
Juniper is buying the intellectual property of Blackwave as it looks to bulk up its Internet video delivery capabilities. It will add to what Juniper acquired when it bought Ankeena Networks in April. – Juniper Networks is buying the intellectual property of Blackwave, which makes Internet video delivery and storage technologies.
The deal, announced Nov. 18, marks the second
acquisition by Juniper this week and the latest move by the networking
company to expand its capabilities in the highly co…
Juniper Networks is growing its WLAN capabilities through the $152 million acquisition of Trapeze Networks, which offers a host of solutions aimed at enterprise wireless efforts. – Juniper Networks is adding key wireless capabilities to its networking lineup by acquiring Trapeze Networks.
Juniper, a growing rival to Cisco Systems in the
expanding networking space, announced Nov. 16 that it is buying Trapeze
for $152 million from its parent company, Belden. The deal is expec…
The Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite is designed to protect connected mobile devices whether they are used at work or at home. – SAN FRANCISCO Juniper Networks, known for
a long time as a second fiddle to Cisco Systems in the network I/O movement,
boosted its standing in the network security sector Oct. 26 by introducing a
new end-to-end suite of security products and services for smartphones.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-base…
The Media Flow Publisher application allows content providers to simultaneously deliver high-quality video content to various types of devices. – Juniper Networks introduced Media Flow Publisher, an
application that would facilitate delivery of high-quality video online, the
company said Oct. 14.
The Media Flow Publisher application must be deployed in
conjunction with the companys Media Flow Controller, Junipers content
delivery and cac…
The number of mobile VOIP minutes will double every year, according to Juniper Research, reaching 470.6 billion by 2015. Traditional mobile operators need to address the trend, the analysts say. – The number of mobile VOIP minutes that will be carried on 3G and 4G
networks every year will double annually over the next five years,
according to Juniper Research, which will be a boon to such companies
as Skype and Nimbuzz.
In a report issued July 1, Juniper analysts said the
annual mobile V…
David Yen, executive vice president for Junipers Data Center Business Group, will use his talk at the IDC Cloud Leadership Forum June 15 to tout the companys “Project Stratus,” an initiative designed to collapse the networking infrastructure from three to one layer. Juniper is one of a number of vendors, including Cisco, Force10 and Brocade, looking to adapt the networking infrastructure to meet the demands from todays virtual data centers. – When David Yen takes the stage June 15 at the IDC Cloud Leadership Forum, he will tout Juniper Networks “Project Stratus” as the best strategy for revamping the networking infrastructure in data centers.
In an interview with eWEEK before his presentation, Yen, executive vice president of Junipers D…
Enterasys is driving home the message of heterogeneity as it unveils its data center networking strategy, which will compete initiatives from a host of other vendors, including Cisco, Brocade, HP and Juniper. The first step in the strategy is enhancements to its S-Series data center switches, including greater automation of management tasks in physical and virtual environments. – Enterasys is unveiling a data center networking strategy that officials says differs from that of Cisco Systems and Brocade Communications in its high level of support for heterogeneous data center environments.
Enterasys, which merged with Siemens Enterprise Communications Group in 2008, on June 1…
Brocade announces its converged data center strategy, dubbed Brocade One, which is designed to bring many data center operations onto the network for simplified and less costly operations. Brocade One will compete with Ciscos UCS and Junipers Project Falcon initiative. – Brocade entered into the converged data center fray against Cisco Systems
and Juniper Networks June 9 with the introduction of Brocade One, a strategy
designed to bring data center operations onto the network.
The initiative is designed to cut costs and simplify data
center operations, and inclu…
A number of vendors, including Microsoft, Polycom and HP, are creating the UCIF to leverage currently available standards to improve interoperability among unified communications products. Juniper and Logitech also are founders of the UCIF, which has about a dozen members. However, absent from the membership rolls are Cisco and Avaya. – Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an
alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications
offerings using currently established standards.
Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications
Interoperability Forum) include Juniper…
Juniper Networks is rolling out hardware, software and services as part of its push to simplify the data center network. The announcements are part of Juniper’s Project Stratus strategy of collapsing the network infrastructure from three to two layers, then from two to one in the next year. The effort relies heavily on automation and virtualization capabilities. – <p>Juniper Networks officials plan to continue flattening the data center
networking infrastructure as they move toward a single-tiered offering starting
sometime in 2011.</p>
<p>During a news conference and Webcast May 17, Juniper executives
outlined the company’s 3-2-1
strategy, saying they a…
With more players in the Cisco-dominated switch market, and HP offering a bigger competitive threat due to its 3Com acquisition, Juniper has stepped up its own game, offering discounts of up to 60 percent to customers who purchase through a channel partner and switch from a competitor to the company’s Ethernet switches.
– Juniper Networks is offering a switch trade-up program — “Switch To Juniper” — aimed at helping customers move from “legacy suppliers” to Junipers EX Series products, with discounts of up to 60 percent on the new switches.
Juniper says that now through Sept. 30, eligible businesses in the Ame…
Juniper is scooping up Ankeena to improve its offerings in the area of video Internet traffic, a space highly coveted by rival Cisco. Ankeenas technology is designed to help service providers more cost effectively deliver a better video experience on both fixed and mobile devices.
– Juniper Networks is adding to its ability to handle the rapidly
increasing amount of video running over networks with the acquisition
of Ankeena Networks.
Juniper officials announced the deal April 8, and
said the company would form the foundation of Junipers new Content and
Media Business Unit…
Cisco, Juniper Networks and other top vendors saw double-digit revenue growth in their router businesses in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Dell’Oro Group. Overall, revenue in the worldwide service provider space jumped 15 percent sequentially in the quarter, and Dell’Oro says it expects the trend to continue into 2010.
– Like other sectors of the tech industry, the global service provider router
market showed continuing recovery in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to
research company Dell’Oro Group.
In a report issued Feb. 22, Dell’Oro said the sales of routers
for service providers jumped 15 percent over t…
Juniper Networks is establishing a $50 million venture capital program to back startups working on products that would help Juniper encourage adoption of its Junos networking OS platform. The program will focus on companies with products that touch on such areas as secure and green networking, mobility, videos, virtualization, and network automation.
– Juniper Networks is establishing a $50 million venture capital initiative to
further the company’s efforts to create an ecosystem around its Junos
networking software platform.
The Junos Innovation Fund, announced Feb. 23, will target early
and growth-stage venture-backed companies, the vendor s…
HP, Cisco and Juniper added $600 million in incremental revenue to the Ethernet switch market in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to DellOro Group. In addition, the 10GbE segment continues to be the strongest area of the market.
– The Ethernet switch market continues to expand, driven by the growth
of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data center and revenues generated by the
likes of Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, according
to research firm DellOro Group.
In a report issued Feb. 22, DellOro analysts said
…
At the Mobile World Congress show, Juniper unveiled a mobile networking platform that addresses such issues as security, video content and traffic management. The platform, building off of the companys previously announced “Project Falcon,” leverages Junipers latest MX 3D edge routers and SRX services gateways, as well as its Junos networking operating system.
– Juniper Networks is making its push into the mobile networking space with a
host of new offerings being rolled out at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The new products, announced Feb. 14, build on Junipers
“Project Falcon,” which company officials first
talked about in October as a way of…
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