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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM--(Marketwired - Apr 10, 2013) -   Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that Belgacom, the largest telecommunications provider in Belgium, has deployed Juniper Networks® T Series Core Routers to ready itself for the future of Internet applications and bandwidth growth, demanded by its customers. Juniper Networks T4000 allows Belgacom to embrace the rapid adoption of new cloud applications, the explosion in online video traffic, the introduction of IPv6 and the widespread use of smart-phones and tablets and prepare the core of its network for the next decade.

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Belgacom

With the introduction of the Juniper Networks T4000 Series in the Belgacom peering infrastructure, we aim at the realization of a highly available, fully redundant infrastructure. The realized architecture consists of two fully geo-redundant peering infrastructures being able to carry the total traffic generated by Belgacom customers. This infrastructure will allow Belgacom to drastically improve service availability and offer full resiliency to Internet applications, which in the last few years have become very critical for our customers.

- Johan Luystermans, vice president, network engineering and member of management committee, Belgacom

Juniper Networks

With the rapid subscription and data growth in cloud-based services, social networks and video, service providers require solutions that can provide superior flexibility and scale with the network intelligence needed to effortlessly adapt to new requirements. Junipers T Series platform will support Belgacoms advanced networking goals to provide its customers with new high-demand services while increasing Belgacoms average revenue per subscriber and reducing its total cost of ownership.

- Mike Marcellin, senior vice president, strategy and marketing, Platform and Systems Division, Juniper Networks

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About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.

Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logos are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

The massive growth in the number of mobile users, devices and apps is overloading enterprise networks. Already strained by limited resources and shrinking IT budgets, enterprises are exploring ways the network can better support business agility, quickly deploy new applications/services, and support more users.

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 4, 2013) - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today unveiled three new products designed to boost business agility and simplify network management. A massive spike in BYOD, mobile users and new enterprise application deployments has created network congestion and complexity. Compounded with the challenge of contracting IT budgets, these trends have severely restricted ITs ability to quickly respond and maintain network reliability.

Many enterprises use single purpose legacy infrastructures, built in silos and defined by their location in the enterprise, that cant keep pace with rapid changes in compute, storage and application requirements and often inhibit service delivery. In order to maximize delivery and availability of next-generation cloud services, server virtualization and rich media applications, Juniper introduces a new agile, programmable network. This will enable network operators to respond to business changes and monitor and react to how the network meets application service level agreement (SLA) requirements in a matter of seconds, not days or weeks.

Juniper Networks has addressed these challenges with a series of new products for enterprise campus and data center infrastructures. The new Juniper Networks® EX9200 Programmable Switch enables accelerated response to changing business needs, while its built-in ability to support a virtual WLAN controller, the Juniper Networks JunosV Wireless LAN Controller, will deliver high levels of reliability and flexibility across the enterprise to lower capital expense. The Junos® Space Network Director provides a single-pane-of-glass network management solution for wired and wireless LANs and data centers, consolidating multiple management tools to simplify network operations and deliver a comprehensive advanced platform that prepares enterprises for tomorrows applications, services and workload demands.

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Three, Ireland
Data centers are evolving into highly virtualized environments, and switches must be flexible enough to fill multiple roles. Junipers EX9200 is a programmable, resilient and scalable platform that delivers a rich set of features and interface options that will allow Three Ireland to accelerate and enhance our service delivery while greatly improving the customer experience.
- David Hennessy, chief technical officer, Three, Ireland

Pacific Northwest GigaPOP
Junipers EX9200 dramatically simplifies how we provide cost-effective, reliable, high-bandwidth and high-capacity networking to our research and education participants, as well as faculty, students and staff. The advanced programmability of the EX9200 delivers future-ready capabilities that can be easily adapted to support new requirements created by emerging applications, such as SDN and EVPN, while automation features allow us to transform network operations, reducing complexity and overhead.
- Schyler Batey, lead network engineer, Pacific Northwest GigaPOP

InfoGuard AG
Reducing complexity and cost are essential for the success of our business. The Junos Space Network Director provides our IT staff an end-to-end unified management application to administer our network infrastructure, users and applications from a single interface. This simplification increases the security and reliability of our infrastructure and removes the complexity of operating multiple management tools, which reduces operation expenditures while improving our ability to quickly react to business needs.
- Thomas Meier, chief executive officer, InfoGuard AG

Channel Partner: Copper River
Our customers need agility to manage virtualized and increasingly unpredictable bandwidth workloads, while being able to scale for future requirements. The Juniper Networks EX9200 programmable switch is uniquely positioned for this upcoming Layer 2 services refresh. It provides our customers a programmable core chassis with highly dense 10GbE and 40GbE configurations, all managed by Junos. Moreover, the EX9200 is future-ready with its ability to support 100GbE, SDN capabilities, and multiple automation options, providing a highly customizable, agile, infrastructure to customers.
- Joe Kim, vice president of engineering, Copper River

Channel Partner: Torrey Point
The EX9200 comes at a perfect time for our customers, some of whom are in the process of data center upgrades. As our customers look at technology upgrades and new architecture designs, they need a feature-rich high-capacity switch to consolidate the older devices they had in three-tiered networks. With Junipers silicon investment in the EX9200, this is going to be the right switch for them.
- Doug Marschke, chief technology officer, Torrey Point

Enterprise Strategy Group
A dynamic and competitive global marketplace requires organizations to be flexible and responsive. As a result, the underlying IT infrastructure and the network especially needs to be able to evolve with the business. The Juniper EX9200 Ethernet switching platform delivers a level of programmability that will allow enterprises to prepare for emerging protocols and applications. This programmability will also ensure that network operators will have the flexibility to add those future services with limited need for hardware upgrades, thus providing a high degree of assurance and investment protection.
- Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Juniper Networks
It is critical for enterprises to design their infrastructure to adapt to emerging business requirements with programmable and flexible platforms. Junipers new EX9200 Programmable Switch, the virtualized JunosV WLAN Controller and Junos Space Network Director future-readies enterprises for adaptability and ultimately cost optimization -- a solution customers can buy today and that will grow with their needs over time.
- Jonathan Davidson, senior vice president, Campus and Data Center Business Unit, Juniper Networks

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About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.

Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logo are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

Statements in this press release concerning Juniper Networks prospects, future products and prospective benefits to customers are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks. Actual results or events could differ materially from those anticipated in those forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including delays in scheduled product availability, the companys failure to accurately predict emerging technological trends, and other factors listed in Juniper Networks most recent report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements made in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release. Juniper Networks undertakes no obligation to update the information in this release in the event facts or circumstances subsequently change after the date of this press release.

Juniper Networks is announcing the general availability of Puppet for Junos OS, a tool that will allow IT teams to seamlessly manage both the compute and networking infrastructures in concert. Sysadmins can now deploy applications and make corresponding changes to the network with a common tool, resulting in a much more agile IT infrastructure.

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - Apr 1, 2013) - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today confirmed it will release preliminary financial results for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2013, on Apr. 23, 2013 after the close of the market and will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), to be broadcast live over the Internet.

To participate via telephone, the toll free dial-in number is 877-407-8033, international callers dial +1-201-689-8033. Please dial in ten minutes prior to the scheduled conference call time. The webcast will be available at http://investor.juniper.net.

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About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.

Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logos are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

300 billion bits per second. The largest DDoS attack ever was targeted at Spamhaus, purportedly a retaliatory attack for a decision made by Spamhaus to include a group in its widely used list of spammers. The in-your-face audacious scale has attracted global attention and interest.

On March 27, the FCC will be hosting a workshop called The Gigabit Community Broadband Networks. The goal of the event is to showcase what a 1G Internet offers –from fostering next generation applications, networks and services to you guessed it...faster speed. All of this is aimed at enabling “local” performance over a broader geographical footprint while generating exceptional new experiences across vertical industry applications.

Cybersecurity has played a particularly prominent role in the news recently, and policymakers ranging from members of Congress to the President are advancing policies to address the significant risks we face as a nation and a people. Critical infrastructure is of particular concern, and the intrusions evolve on a daily basis. In a threat environment that is ever-changing, there is no room for false starts or approaches that slow response time or redirect limited resources. It is important to keep focus on the most effective ways to mitigate the cyber risk.

Apparently there’s a new way to rock the vote. And that’s through cyber fraud and deception. Yay, technology?

ANAHEIM, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 18, 2013) - (OFC/NFOEC) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today unveiled two new products designed to address key challenges facing service providers as they converge their networks to optimize their business.

First, Juniper Networks has advanced the industrys first and only Converged Supercore™ for service providers with the introduction of the Juniper Networks® PTX3000 Packet Transport Router. Unlike other core routers that are so large that they often require building retrofits and redesigns, the new Juniper Networks router at 10.6 inches in depth can be installed in virtually any space and energy constrained environment. The PTX3000 routers capacity is designed to rapidly scale over time up to 24 terabits per second (Tbps), enabling PTX3000 to simultaneously stream high-definition video to as many as three million households.

In addition, Juniper Networks announced an integrated packet-transport physical interface card (PIC) with two-ports of line rate 100 Gigabit forwarding for the entire PTX family, which will now enable service providers to cost-effectively interconnect sites more than 2000 kilometers (1243 miles) apart, the equivalent distance between San Francisco, Calif. and Denver, Colo.

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The PTX Series, in combination with the T Series Core Routers, the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, the ACX Series Universal Access Routers and Junos Space Network Management deliver a unique architecture for the future of service provider networks, promoting long-term investment protection by flexibly scaling total capacity to meet ever-increasing consumer and business traffic.

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XO Communications 
Our business continuously evolves at the escalating pace of mobility and emerging cloud-based applications. Our enterprise customers need communications services that will scale on-demand and remain highly reliable, which means our network core must have a simple architecture, be automated, and function with minimal changes. Junipers PTX Series routers enable us to meet our vision to rapidly deliver advanced communications services to customers. Our Juniper Supercore will improve our customers experience and offers the flexibility to deliver more competitive solutions in the future.
- Randy Nicklas, chief technology officer, XO Communications

Juniper Networks
To effectively deliver advanced services and remain competitive, service providers need a core network solution that will help streamline their business and reduce operational costs. The Converged Supercore is an innovative platform that enhances service provider economics while providing greater value to their subscribers. Following on the heels of the revolutionary PTX5000, the PTX3000 extends these benefits to new markets and geographies with a solution that is tailored for their specific needs.
- Rami Rahim, executive vice president, Platform Systems Division, Juniper Networks

Infonetics Research
Traffic patterns in metro networks are rising at such a high rate that requirements in the IP metro core are similar to those of previous IP backbone core networks. The PTX3000 Packet Transport Router has clearly achieved a new packaging density for core routers, with capacity to scale up to 24 Tbps in an energy efficient, 1/2 rack, 300mm ETSI form factor. We expect that these characteristics will draw the consideration of service providers as they redesign their metro networks for the future.
- Michael Howard, principal analyst, Infonetics Research

Live Demonstrations at OFC/NFOEC and MPLS World Congress
Juniper Networks will demonstrate an end-to-end service provider network solution in booth #1433 at OFC/NFOEC March 19-21, including MPLS from access to core. It will showcase Junipers award-winning ACX Series Universal Access Routers, the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Router, the game-changing Converged Supercore solution and PTX Series Packet Transport Switches. The demonstration will also highlight dynamic and application-based optimization using PCE and ALTO protocols for the delivery of differentiated services. In addition, the PTX Series will also be featured at MPLS World Congress 2013 at the Hotel Marriott Paris Rive Gauche in France, March 19-22.

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About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.

Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logo and Converged Supercore are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

With much of the recent hype on larger density routers, many seem intrigued by the buzz around a small Supercore router, the PTX3000. Admittedly, it is the world’s most compact core router. But, isn’t traffic continuing to explode at double digit rates? And what is so “Super” about a 3.84 Tbps system?