From the start, Juniper saw the opportunity to help customers build and accelerate business value from their IT infrastructures. Since then we have helped our customers stay ahead of the demands posed by the exponential growth in network users and end-points, while meeting the business imperatives for high performance, reliability and absolute security.

The company's first product, the revolutionary M40 router which shipped in September of 1998, did just that. The M40 far surpassed all other routers on the market and established Juniper's position as an innovative and serious player in the hardware market. Since this auspicious beginning, Juniper has continued to grow and innovate, releasing new product, developing new technologies based on customers' needs, and remaining at the forefront of high-performance networking.

Juniper remains uniquely positioned to maintain industry leadership based on our core competencies in architecture, silicon design, and the industry's only carrier-class, purpose-built "pure IP" modular network operating system ? Junos? operating system. Juniper offers a broad product portfolio that spans routing, switching, security, application acceleration, identity policy and control, and management to provide customers unmatched performance, greater choice and flexibility while reducing overall total cost of ownership.

Today, Juniper Networks [NYSE: JNPR] is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with more than 8,700 dedicated employees and offices in 53 countries. Our customers include the top 130 global service providers, including 96 of the Global Fortune 100, as well as hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies and higher education organizations.

For more information, please visit Juniper Networks official website: www.juniper.net