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Juniper Networks has extended its product portfolio with two new EX Series access switches. The switches are expected to enable secure, simplified management for campus and branch networks, regardless of size and complexity. The EX2300 , an entry-level switch, and EX3400, a mid-range switch, offer new options for companies to leverage Juniper Networks Unite for a cloud-enabled enterprise, including Junos Fusion Enterprise and Juniper Networks Virtual Chassis technology to streamline network provisioning through a single point of management. The new solutions are expected to also further Juniper’s Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) framework by serving as additional enforcement points throughout the network. The new EX2300 and EX3400 switches provide small and mid-market organizations with an easy-to-manage network solution, liberating overextended IT resources to concentrate on high-impact projects. The new access switches also give large enterprises greate...

Juniper Networks has extended its cloud and virtualized service offerings as part of its Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) framework. These enhancements include a new compact and containerized virtual firewall called Juniper Networks cSRX , a firewall providing advanced security services for Software-Defined Networks, as well as a multi-core version of the Juniper Networks vSRX , the virtual firewall that is expected to be capable of reaching 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps). The cSRX is expected to provide a cost-effective way to wrap advanced security services around every workload and the ability to scale up to high multi-tenancy. Additionally, Juniper is announcing a massive increase in performance on its vSRX. Both products are anticipated to enable the network to better detect and combat threats through increased performance, intelligence, and a higher density of services on the Intel Xeon processor family (x86 platform). These enhancements to Juniper’s vir...

Juniper Networks and Lenovo have entered into a global strategic partnership to leverage synergies in their respective product and technology portfolios to build the next generation of converged, hyperconverged, and hyper-scale data center infrastructure solutions for enterprise and web-scale customers. The alliance reflects a shared commitment to deliver simplified, flexible and high-performance solutions that will provide customers faster time-to-application value with reduced operating costs. “Partnering with Lenovo expands Juniper’s strategy to deliver a full-stack solution for a wide-range of data centers, from the mid-range enterprise to private cloud and to hyper-scale customers. We are excited about collaborating with Lenovo to leverage the full power of our IP-networking portfolio based on JunosOS and Contrail, in delivering the next generation of converged, hyperconverged, and hyper-scale solution to customers in China and globally,” said Rami Rahim, Chi...

To deliver Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based solutions, NEC Corporation and Juniper Networks have extended their global alliance relationship. The solutions will allow service providers and enterprises to gain service agility to transform their business operations and help them lower overall costs. “As part of its commitment to delivering an open, best-of-breed NFV-based solution, NEC has led an SDN/NFV ecosystem program with more than 40 partners worldwide. NEC is thrilled to be working closely with Juniper through this expanded alliance, which will further reinforce the ecosystem and allow NEC and Juniper to jointly offer NFV-based solutions that enable the introduction of innovative new services at higher speed and lower cost,” said Atsuo Kawamura , Senior Vice-President, NEC Corporation... Read more

Juniper Networks has announced advanced anti-malware with zero-day threat protection from the cloud, redesigned security management and the latest firewalls for enterprise campus and branch networks, as part of its new Juniper Networks Unite architecture. The latest security solutions include Juniper Networks Sky Advanced Threat Prevention, Junos Space Security Director and Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways to provide customers with the sophisticated threat protection, security management, automation and scale needed to defend against threats at any point in the network without hindering network performance. These advancements will deliver better visibility to the network through a simplified, intuitive management platform, as well as ensure pervasive, dynamic threat protection with intelligence from the cloud that is automatically distributed across SRX firewalls within the enterprise... Read more

Juniper Networks has announced that Telefonica Spain has selected Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers to build a next-generation Metro network across Spain. The new network will deliver fixed and mobile broadband services, including high-speed TV for residential users, as well as cloud services for businesses, all from a single IP network. After a comprehensive search, Telefonica selected the Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Router portfolio to consolidate its wholesale, residential and business services onto a single end-to-end IP infrastructure. Powered by the Junos Trio chipset and Junos operating system, the SDN-ready MX Series scales up to 80Tbps of system capacity, providing Telefonica with investment-protecting performance and the density to meet surging bandwidth; and service demands of its customers over the long term. “This partnership with Juniper is a further step in Telefonica’s technological transformation strategy. We are making huge a...

Juniper Networks in its study commissioned with IDC has found that a majority of large enterprises in India are planning to deploy Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies as part of their network architecture by 2016. In recent times, SDN has become the buzzword in the networking industry and is widely tipped to be the next game-changer. The Juniper Networks commissioned study by IDC entitled “Understanding SDN is the key to transformation”, surveyed 171 IT decision-makers from over 151 organizations across various industries, to find out more on their plans to deploy SDN in their networks. “The Juniper Networks-commissioned study by IDC clearly indicates the areas in which SDN solutions need to perform well if it wishes to establish itself as the new norm in networking. The need of the hour then becomes educating and creating awareness in the industry on the benefits of SDN. To further this cause, Juniper has initiated SDN training programs that have created awareness am...

Avnet Technology Solutions has recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of its business alliance with Juniper Networks. For a decade, the companies have collaborated to help educate and enable partners to enhance the connectivity of their customers’ IT infrastructures with security, switching, and routing solutions in seven countries: Australia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Netherlands, and the U.K. “Big data and analytics, cloud computing and mobility are driving an exponential increase in connectivity and security demands, and these trends are expected to define the technology industry for the next decade,” said Patrick Zammit, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Global. “As a result, security and networking presents one of the greatest growth opportunities for our partners. Avnet’s 10-year relationship with Juniper Networks has given our partners a solid foundation in this market. With Juniper Networks, we will continue to look for new opportunities to build upon our mutu...

Juniper Networks has appointed Susan Lovegren as Senior Vice-President of Human Resources and Bob Worrall as Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer. Lovegren reports to Chief Executive Officer Rami Rahim and Worrall to Chief Financial and Operations Officer Robyn Denholm. “The opportunity we have at Juniper to lead the next wave of innovation and network transformation in our industry is incredible. That is why we are so honoured to welcome tech industry veterans Susan and Bob to our leadership team where they will apply their experience and passion developing forward-leaning technology and people programs that inspire our teams, enable us to innovate faster than the market and help us to solve our customers’ toughest challenges,” said Rami Rahim, CEO, Juniper Networks... Read more

Juniper Networks has expanded its Converged Supercore architecture with the introduction of the PTX1000, the 3 Tbps fixed configuration core router. The new two-rack unit (RU) router leverages Juniper’s recently announced ExpressPlus chipset for performance and efficiency gains while also giving service providers a platform that is right-sized to support the evolving needs of distributed peering in order to speed access to cloud services on the network. “For telecom service and cloud content providers, the network is the lifeblood of their business. Juniper is always looking for new ways to ensure the network is a true competitive advantage for them. In developing the PTX1000, we recognized that these customers can increase performance while reducing operational complexity by distributing the load of serving up content across multiple peering points to deliver the high quality user experience that consumers expect,” said, Paul Obsitnik, vice president of service provider marketing...

Juniper Networks has announced new hardware for its SRX5800 Services Gateway that will deliver performance necessary to secure traffic on high-speed networks. These new improvements will increase available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall throughput up to 2 Terabits per second (2 Tbps), to empower service providers and large enterprises to minimize the potential for security bottlenecks as they manage increased and unpredictable demands for bandwidth placed on their networks. “As the threat landscape continues to evolve and a variety of devices increasingly flood the network, companies are forced to not only meet network performance demands but also ensure they have efficient, fast and scalable protection in place. With Juniper’s latest performance advancements, the company is elevating industry standards and empowering businesses to accelerate time to enforcement with the fastest available throughput on the market today,” said Christofer Hoff, Vice-President & Security Chief Tech...

Juniper Networks and Mirantis have announced an expanded engineering partnership that provides customers with a reliable, open-source software-defined networking (SDN) fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale. Mirantis OpenStack, an OpenStack distribution that is easy to install and operate at scale, will now support and interoperate with Juniper Contrail Networking, a standards-based SDN solution for enterprise and service provider customers. Mirantis OpenStack also supports and interoperates with OpenContrail, an open-source SDN solution. “Mirantis is the go-to vendor for building an OpenStack cloud. Integration of Mirantis OpenStack with Juniper Contrail Networking gives the enterprise-grade support that customers expect for large-scale open-source cloud deployments,” said Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Software, Juniper Networks. “By providing developers, partners and customers a proven, open-source reference architecture, together Mirant...

Juniper Networks has announced additions to its routing portfolio that expand the company’s Carrier Ethernet offerings. The new Juniper Networks ACX500 and ACX5000 routers, as well as enhancements to the Junos Space Network Management Platform software, will enable service providers to handle added capacity and accelerate service orchestration and provisioning more cost-effectively than ever before. With these new products, Juniper is continuing to build out its mobile IP portfolio to deliver a holistic approach that will enable more efficient mobile service creation. When combined with Juniper’s existing offerings, such as the Service Control Gateway and MX Series routing platforms, Juniper delivers IP/MPLS solutions that can flexibly enable new services at an optimized cost. Additionally, Juniper’s Carrier Ethernet solution seamlessly blends hardware and software to address service providers’ growing need to support mobile backhaul and metro Ethernet coverage on one common heter...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  and  Aruba Networks  have signed a strategic agreement to deliver open, converged wired and wireless network solutions based on best-of-breed technologies. The partnership includes both joint development efforts and go-to-market collaboration, with the goal of providing innovative solutions for the toughest problems facing enterprises. As part of this effort, Juniper is enabling technology partners, like Aruba, to take advantage of Juniper's programmable silicon by making available key software elements and new programmable application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the High-IQ enterprise - an open, smart approach to enterprise networking that allows customers to fundamentally transform the user and operator experience. This will help foster industry collaboration to accelerate innovation for customers and partners. "Juniper is delivering best-of-breed High-IQ networks to custo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  has unveiled a virtualized security portfolio, Firefly Suite, a virtualized security portfolio that can provide granular and secure connectivity for the private and public cloud. The suite introduces Firefly Perimeter, a virtual version of the  Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateway , as well as Junos Space Virtual Director, an application that automates the management and deployment of Firefly Perimeter. The Firefly Suite proactively protects virtual workloads and applications in real-time with security intelligence, automation and unified control over virtual firewalls, enabling organizations to securely leverage these new cloud computing technologies. Juniper Networks Firefly Suite can be easily embedded throughout the virtual environment including the hypervisor itself or as VMs connected to the various virtual networks, to provide tailored security, automation and control. Firef...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To help enterprise organizations and service providers address the challenges associated with managing multiple, geographically dispersed data centers, Juniper Networks  has unveiled MetaFabric, a new architecture for next-generation data centers. MetaFabric simplifies and accelerates the deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple data center locations. This new architecture enables customers to run data center networks securely and more efficiently through a combination of Juniper’s network innovations, professional services and strategic partnerships. The  MetaFabric Architecture  is built on the three guiding principles of “open”, “simple” and “smart” and the customers can integrate a broad array of hardware and software solutions from Juniper Networks or other networking vendors with the assurance of interoperability and minimal disruption. To ensure full interoperability and seamle...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Intending to deliver next generation of mobile IP solutions,  NSN  and  Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  have jointly announced expansion of their long-term partnership. The extended collaboration will cover secure  IP connectivity for high-performance mobile broadband networks  via jointly-developed solutions that meet the end-to-end needs of operators. With the introduction of LTE and LTE Advanced solutions, IP plays an essential role in mobile broadband networks. For delivering high-performance mobile broadband, the new solutions will focus on key areas including next-generation mobile backhaul for mobile operators that need to upgrade and consolidate their backhaul networks to support LTE and LTE-Advanced architecture; radio access security to encrypt and firewall traffic coming into the mobile network over the LTE; mobile site connectivity for operators upgrading or extending their mobile infrast...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  has made an official announcement that it has expanded its partnership with  VMware  to deliver a broad range of solutions for unifying virtual and physical networks within a virtualized data center environment. These solutions, which will include VMware NSX L2 Gateway integration and VXLAN routing capabilities across access, aggregation, core and edge tiers of the data center network, will offer enterprise customers seamless management of workflows across virtualized and non-virtualized systems. Juniper Networks' VXLAN routing and gateway capabilities enable both intra- and inter-data center solutions and accelerate the transition to software-defined networking (SDN). "Network virtualization is rapidly transforming virtual data centers today, and as enterprises seek to simplify IT by accelerating their use of private and hybrid cloud environments, physical and virtual networks must be view...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  has introduced  JunosV Contrail Controller  for software-defined networks (SDN). With the introduction of JunosV Contrail, Juniper Networks aims to reduce the time, cost and risk for customers to deliver new network and security services. With this new family of products, Juniper Networks ensures to deliver an unparalleled ability to adapt to changing business needs. Ankur Singla, Vice President, SDN and Orchestration Systems, Juniper Networks  said, “The JunosV Contrail Controller combines best-in-class network orchestration and automation to address the gaps customers are experiencing with existing SDN controller solutions. With Juniper Networks, customers can now have technology that seamlessly integrates into their current IT architectures, providing the agility and scalability they need to build elastic, open environments and the ability to deploy services like security seamless...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks has announced that Japan’s NTT Communications has deployed the Juniper Networks T1600 Core Router  to power its next-generation video transmission system. The MPLS multicasting capability of the T1600 helps NTT Communications achieve a reliable, high-capacity delivery of high-definition video for customer applications. NTT Communications, a subsidiary of NTT Corporation provides network management, security and network services to consumers, corporations and governments. NTT Communications was looking to maximize its revenue potential by increasing the capacity, flexibility and efficiency of its network core.... See More