Networking company Juniper Networks is encouraging customers to upgrade their routers to fix a serious vulnerability in its operating system.
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Juniper Networks this week announced it is obtaining privately held SMobile Systems, a developer of security program for smartphones and tablets, for $70 million in funds.
SMobile’s products are designed to protect devices walking on Android, Apple iOS, Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile operating systems from viruses, adware, identity theft and other threats. The program also provides parental and enterprise controls.
Juniper will add the SMobile program to its Junos Pulse program platform for smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks.
Junos Pulse is intended to bring integrated connectivity, security and application acceleration to those devices, and the addition of SMobile will facilitate a secure mobile Web experience, Juniper says.
Citing information from Infonetics Research, Juniper says the mobile client security market will be over $1 billion by 2014.
Juniper expects to close the acquisition within days. Thirty SMobile employees will transition to Juniper. SMobile CEO Neil Book and CTO Daniel Hoffman will document in to Juniper’s Access and Acceleration business unit, headed by Vice President and General Manager Sanjay Beri.
Juniper Networks has sent new equipment, high speed networks to help telecommunications companies and Internet service providers build faster networks.
Juniper’s high-flying, which competes with Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and others, is best known for its high-speed routers carrying information over Internet networks.
Juniper shares jumped over a product announcement today, also in the word of the company sealed a contract with the ISP Verio’s national team worth $ 7 million. The shares rose more than 14 percent to 332, close to the company high of 335.75.
Juniper networking equipment offered for the “core” of the Internet, or backbone through which information travels net. new router for high speed business ready for the “edge” of a network, where service providers in contact with other service providers and Internet companies.
Juniper executives said the company needed to expand their range of network equipment to help remove the ISP network congestion and provide more network services to customers.
“As we move high-bandwidth in the center, you need to carry high bandwidth at the edge, Juniper’s vice president of marketing, said Joe Furgerson. “ISPs are providing more services to the largest consumers of bandwidth, and that’s not a market that is well served.”
The new device, called the M20 router, will allow network providers to offer more services such as Web application hosting and distribution of audio and video across the Web.
Forrester Research analyst, said Brendan Hannigan new product line of Juniper will help you better compete against Cisco, which already sells routing devices.
“There are more dollars at the edge,” said Hannigan. “If they continue to grow, they must go beyond being a central router company. It’s hard being a simple product of the single undertaking.”
Juniper went public in June and had one of the most successful IPOs of the year.
Dell and Juniper Networks have signed a technology collaboration network that will develop products for virtualized data centers.
On Tuesday, the companies announced they will work together in aligning data center virtualized based on open standards. Collborate also on products based on enhanced converged Ethernet (CEE) and iSCSI, both technologies are intended to make networks more profitable to run.
As part of the agreement, Dell will sell network equipment, Juniper Networks, following a similar agreement with Brocade, which was extended in September. It plans to rename Juniper routers, switches and gateways PowerConnect services under its J-Series products, while selling Brocade storage and network equipment under the brand PowerConnect B-Series.
The agreement is designed to allow companies to build its data center and network infrastructure – including offices, remote workers, customers and business partners – with the team from a single provider, the companies said.
“This agreement will help solve many of our most serious challenges, including the dramatic increase in security issues, once again dispersed workforce and challenges caused by the arrival of the virtualized data center,” said Dell senior vice president, Brad Anderson , in a statement.
Dell will sell, service and support of Juniper products – including the MX-series routers, EX-series switches and Ethernet services SRX Series gateways, they all JUNOS software running on the FreeBSD derivative. The products will be available through Dell’s direct and channel PartnerDirect.
Several companies are looking for technologies such as Ethernet and convergence in the use of virtualized servers to simplify deployment and maintenance of data centers. For example, Cisco networking company earlier this year introduced its first blade and rack server products on an initiative calling for Unified Computing (UC), a move that analysts say has been responsible for company such as IBM and Dell hardware to work more closely with networking companies such as Brocade and Juniper. IBM announced an agreement to OEM Brocade in April.
The company has a relatively new market for Juniper, which made its name with routers used by telecommunications companies. The company launched its Ethernet switch portfolio last year and has sold switches to the likes of NYSE Euronext, which is used to build data centers in New York and London.
Juniper is competing with Cisco UC and HP BladeSystem Matrix with a project called Stratus, intended to simplify and accelerate the networks. Stratus-based products will not arrive until 2010 or 2011, but at least in theory, Juniper plans to go further than any of Cisco and HP, according to Datamonitor analyst Rik Turner.
“Neither the supplier [Cisco or] HP proposes something as radical as the architecture of a single layer of Stratus,” Turner said in a July report, published at the time of trying to Juniper with NYSE Euronext. “The fact that the giant global stock markets, whose tolerance is obviously minimal latency, has been with Juniper is a strong endorsement of the vendor’s road map.”
Juniper Networks and Polycom have teamed on a joint telepresence and videoconferencing offering that’s designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
In a statement Monday, Juniper and Polycom said they will optimize their platforms so service providers can offer video and telepresence cheaply. The argument: it’s cheaper for enterprises to deploy telepresence as a service from their network providers instead of building out their own networks.
The deal with Juniper highlights Polycom’s partnership strategy. Polycom last week announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens. Polycom also highlighted a telepresence demo with IBM at CES 2010. The aim for Polycom: forge partnerships that allow it to surround Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.