Interop 2009: Juniper Networks to Demonstrate High-Performance Networking Solutions at Interop Las Vegas

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced its participation at Interop Las Vegas, May 17-21, 2009 in booth #2011. Through presentations and demonstrations, attendees will learn how their high-performance businesses can demand more choice and flexibility with Juniper’s Adaptive Threat Management Solutions, Data Center Solutions and Distributed Enterprise Solutions to provide industry leading performance and security while simultaneously lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

In addition, InformationWeek Analytics and Interop named Juniper Networks as a finalist for Best of Interop Las Vegas 2009. The Juniper Networks SRX650 was named as a finalist in the Infrastructure category and the SRX3600 Services Gateway was named as a finalist in the Security category. Winners will be announced at the Best of Interop Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 19 at 4:00 p.m. at Interop Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Juniper Networks Speaking Sessions

Juniper technology leaders have been invited to provide insight and expertise on data center, networking and security trends during the conference speaking program:

* Monday, May 18 at 8:30 a.m. PT: Denzil Wessels, technical marketing manager, will participate in the NAC Day full day seminar
* Wednesday, May 20 at 9:10 a.m. PT: David Yen, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Business Group, will participate in a keynote panel on “Reinventing the Data Center”
* Wednesday, May 20 at 10:15 a.m. PT: Tim Richards, director of product management and technical marketing for WAN Acceleration, will participate in the session titled, “How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery”
* Wednesday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. PT: Alex Gray, senior vice president and general manager, Branch Solutions Business Unit, will participate in the session titled, “What’s Wrong with the WAN Firewall?”
* Wednesday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. PT: Brad Minnis, director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Security, will participate in the session titled, “Green Data Center: Your Playbook of Eco-Strategies for Today and Tomorrow”
* Wednesday, May 20 at 2:00 p.m. PT: Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer will participate in the session titled, “Network Access Control – Is It Ready For Prime Time?”
* Thursday, May 21 at 10:15 a.m. PT: Amir Khan, senior director product line management, will participate in the session titled, “Is Routing Undergoing a Mid-Life Crisis?”

Juniper Networks Partner Activities at Interop Las Vegas:

* BreakingPoint Demo at Juniper Booth #2011: BreakingPoint will conduct a live demonstration including intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and firewall testing using blended application traffic and live security attacks of Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways for the branch including the SRX650.
* Ixia Booth #1813: Ixia will conduct a live demonstration and firewall testing with Juniper Networks SRX5800 Services Gateway.
* Trusted Computing Group Booth #869: Juniper will demonstrate comprehensive, standards-based access control with differentiated privileges based on user authentication and endpoint integrity, with both port-based and network-based enforcement, featuring the ability to automatically remediate non-compliant endpoints.

NAC Day Participation:

This full-day seminar will cover the concepts behind NAC, giving attendees the tools to understand both single-vendor solutions and multi-vendor NAC architectures. There will be discussions on specific issues in deploying NAC in enterprise networks, and cover key strategies attendees can use to ensure successful NAC planning and deployment. Juniper Networks is a sponsor of NAC Day, and will be exhibiting and demonstrating Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC), which combines the best of access control and security technologies while leveraging existing enterprise investments and deployments, reducing threat exposure, delivering comprehensive control, visibility and monitoring, and decreasing cost and complexity.

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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