Industry Recognition

May 1, 2008
Top Ten Worldwide IT Security Software Vendor
Government Insights
In its new report, A Government Perspective of the Worldwide Top 10 IT Security Vendors, Government Insights, an IDC company, analyzed the ten largest IT security software vendors across all industries, noting Juniper Networks security solutions and the company's growing presence within the U.S. federal government, state and local government, and international government markets. The report notes Juniper's "broad family of certified network security solutions for enterprises, service providers, and government entities," including integrated firewall, IP security (IPSec) virtual private networks (VPN), and intrusion prevention systems and appliances, as well as secure sockets layer (SSL) VPNs and unified access control portfolios.

March 25, 2008
MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008
Gartner Magic Quadrant
Juniper's Unified Access Control (UAC) NAC product builds on Juniper's strength in the SSL VPN and inline network IPS markets, and on its acquisition of Funk Software's Radius and 802.1X products. Juniper UAC provides a wide array of enforcement options, lacking only DHCP enforcement. In UAC 2.1, Juniper used Shavilk's NetChkProtect patch-level assessment technology and increased the number of remediation partners working with UAC. Juniper has been a driver of open standards for NAC and its entry into the enterprise switching market enables it to provide strong infrastructure-based NAC solutions in the future.

Based on product improvements and some large customer wins, Juniper has moved up from the 2007 ranking of Promising to Positive in 2008.

March 06, 2008
A New Name on the Enterprise Networks Short List: Juniper
IDC report
Juniper announced a new commitment to serving enterprise networks. This commitment consists of a targeted market segment, a line of LAN switches, and a series of partnerships with major IT vendors including IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Juniper has long professed the desire to "solve the hardest networking problems" and serve customers that demand a best-of-breed performance, reliability, and security. Despite this, the company's enterprise product line limited customer conversations and solutions to point products and not to overall network architecture. The EX switch portfolio fills this hole and enables Juniper to bring holistic network solutions to the table. A blank slate enabled Juniper to design a portfolio of switch products that share many of the best features and functions found across the switch market today in form factors that appear to exhibit port densities, scale, and space and power savings expected in a brand new platform. The network is in a renaissance driven by voice and video, client device growth, business dependence on the network, intelligent networks winning over dumb pipes, and an evolving service oriented IT architecture. In this context, Juniper's entry into the enterprise networks marketplace has been a long time coming, but also well timed to help network managers address new flows and demands on the network. The use of JUNOS as a single code base, updated quarterly, across switching, routing, and security appliances is attractive in terms of maintaining consistency and security across a network.

The $37 billion enterprise networks marketplace is full of fierce competitors, but it is refreshing to see a vendor with Juniper's heritage and financial resources expand and commit to serving one of the most dynamic markets in IT. Juniper, welcome to the short list.

February 14, 2008
Magic Quadrant for Network Intrustion Prevention System Appliances, 1H08
Gartner Magic Quadrant
Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain leaders, vendors must have demonstrated a track record of delivering successfully in enterprise IPS deployments and in winning competitive assessments. Leaders produce products that provide high signature quality and low latency, are innovating with or ahead of customers' challenges (such as using endpoint intelligence to make more-efficient detections) and have a range of models. Leaders continually win selections and are consistently visible on enterprise shortlists.

December 14, 2007
Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007
Gartner Magic Quadrant
Leaders exhibit an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in their product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. We expect a Leader to be growing the market as a whole, and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Leaders in the WOC market need to have a broad feature set, including QOS, generic compression, protocol acceleration and file system acceleration, with the majority of features proven in substantial real-world implementations. They also need to be able to offer sales and support on a global basis.

December 6, 2007
Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q07
Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant considers which vendors likely will dominate sales and influence technology directions through 2010, as well as which vendors are most visible among clients, generate the greatest number of requests for information and contract reviews, and account for the most new and ongoing installations in Gartner's client base.

September 13, 2007
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, 2H07
Gartner Magic Quadrant
The enterprise network firewall market is mature yet significantly dynamic. The demands made on network firewalls are changing, and firewalls need to interoperate as part of the larger security ecosphere.

The Leaders quadrant contains a mix of large and midsize vendors, with the common element of making products that are built for enterprise requirements. These requirements include a wide range of models, support for virtualization and virtual LANs, and a management and reporting capability that is designed for complex and high-volume environments, such as multi-tier administration and rules/policy minimization. NGFW capability is an important element as enterprises move away from having dedicated IPS appliances at their perimeter and remote locations. Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability rather than treating the firewall as a commodity and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products. Common characteristics include handling the highest throughput with minimal performance loss and options for hardware acceleration.

July 25, 2007
Toolkit Best Practices: Vendor Influence Map for Enterprise Networking
Gartner Vendor Influence Curve Report
The Vendor Influence Curve (VIC) road map provides guidance on the implications of using the VIC process for enterprise networking. When using the VIC, network architects and other related network team members need to perform specific activities to gain the most benefit.

July 20, 2007
The Forrester Wave^TM: WAN Optimization Appliances, Q3 2007
Juniper in Leaders category
Juniper has demonstrated early innovation in the most critical optimization techniques like caching, data de-duplication, and advanced compression. Juniper came in as the second strongest vendor all around. Its WX and WXC WAN optimization appliances are some of the most sophisticated, with particularly high scores for deployment capabilities, compression, and its comprehensive management system. However, Juniper leads the pack with the strongest overall strategy. Juniper alone promises a compelling network-based strategy, as well as an application delivery strategy, which is more of an overlaid architecture. Moreover, Juniper exhibits a commitment to a best-of-breed technology that can be deployed as a standalone system, embedded within network infrastructure, or logically integrated with security infrastructure. And, despite the feature-function mix, Juniper turns out to be surprisingly cost-effective with the second-lowest solution cost. Given this strategy and the fact that it's one of the largest vendors in this space, we recommend Juniper for companies that want additional investment protection and to ensure that WAN optimization is not just inserted as a tactical near-term fix. Juniper's ability to marry WAN optimization with SSL VPN, IPS, and application delivery infrastructure is impressive. Moreover, Juniper is adept at targeting managed services alternatives, which Forrester believes is critical to the mainstream adoption of WAN optimization.

June 2007
Security and Information Protection: Technology Trends and Vendor Ratings
Nemertes Security Benchmark: Juniper Networks ranked #1 in all categories
As security's profile in the enterprise continues to rise, IT executives place priority most often on security infrastructure improvements (mainly driven by growth in bandwidth), process and governance improvements, and information protection and identity management—these latter driven by compliance fears. Enterprises have security and information protection in their viewfinders as a top priority for IT in 2007. They are backing that up with more money to spend on security initiatives, and an increasing commitment to equip security staff with tools that automate and accelerate their work rather than adding staff—giving the carpenters power tools rather than hiring more sets of hands.

In this report, Nemertes surveyed enterprises in order to create vendor ratings in three categories. Juniper received the highest vendor ratings overall and the highest ratings in each category of Nemertes' Security survey: security vendor customer service and support, strength of technology, and value from security vendors. Additionally, Juniper's lowest score was higher than any other vendor's highest score.

December 2006
Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q06
Gartner SSL VPN Report
The Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network is established as an alternative and a complementary technology to IPsec VPN for remote access. Consolidation of vendors and competition in end-user security and usability make SSL VPNs appealing. Juniper Networks holds a leading position by maintaining, year after year, a balance of highly effective sales, marketing and support, features, and road maps. Juniper is on more than 80% of preliminary and final shortlists presented by Gartner clients. Juniper ties with F5 in being regarded by its peers as the most-competitive threat. Juniper's share of three-year cumulative seats deployed topped 1.2 million, more than three times the average of companies surveyed for this report. Juniper continues to invest well in messaging, timely features, and future wants and needs, not only for end-user buyers, but also in preparation for a serious foray into carrier services. Gartner credits continuing leadership in SSL VPN to the fact that Juniper, as with NetScreen before it, has fostered the original Neoteris team that developed the SSL VPN product and has gone further to embrace the fundamentals of the SSL VPN to transform other Juniper product lines than any other incumbent networking vendor. Juniper maintains high market growth without a need to cut prices, which remain at the high end of the range reported to Gartner based on published rates and discounts. Buyers respond to the company's strength, brand, global presence, and good local sales and support experiences. However, Gartner client feedback does not indicate that the rest of Juniper's products contribute to the success of selling the SSL VPN products.

December 2006
Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances, 2H06
Gartner IPS Report
The network intrusion prevention system appliance market is in a period of maturity and consolidation. A smaller group of vendors are getting an increasing percentage of the market, but the evolving threat means that those that fail to maintain innovation ahead of market demands will be left behind. The Juniper IDP stand-alone IPS product remains competitive, and Juniper is well-positioned in the next generation firewall market (the hardware-based ISG firewalls provide up to 2 Gbps of intrusion prevention throughput). Juniper is well-positioned to use the ScreenOS to drive network IPS capability and performance. Juniper's software-based IDP IPS appliance is well-suited to shortlists where other Juniper infrastructure equipment is present, although this is not a requirement.

December 2006
The Forrester Wave^TM: SSL VPN Appliances, Q4 2006
Forrester SSL VPN Report
Forrester evaluated leading SSL VPN appliance vendors across 57 criteria and found that Juniper Networks maintains its SSL VPN leadership thanks to its superior reverse proxy technology and focus on secure mobility. Juniper is the clear leader in the SSL VPN market. Although its solution has enjoyed a much more comfortable lead in the past, Juniper continues to maintain its success by focusing on superior client access, endpoint security, and reliability. The result is the most well-rounded solution that excels at all the core requirements. In fact, the only significant downside is its price which, according to our evaluation, had the highest MSRP. However, Juniper enjoys a substantially larger customer base than the other vendors, providing it with the best "operational experience." In other words, if you're looking to deploy an SSL VPN, you can be confident that Juniper has seen similar requirements and will provide the necessary pre- and post-sales support to implement your remote access project.

September 2004
Infonetics Research Market Share Leadership
Juniper Networks Named SSL VPN Market Share Leader by Infonetics Research
In Infonetics Research, Inc.'s "VPN and Firewall Appliances and Software Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts for 2Q04" publication, Infonetics Research reports that Juniper Networks is the overwhelming SSL VPN market leader, garnering 57 percent of the world's SSL VPN revenue market share during 2Q'04. The next largest player trails with only 14 percent of the industry's revenue market share, according to the report.

July 2004
Forrester Market Leadership Award
SSL VPN Market Leadership
In Forrester Research's Market Overview report titled "SSL is the Future of Remote Access VPNs," Juniper Networks was named as the clear leader of the SSL VPN market based on its "best overall SSL VPN products and largest market share," according to the report. Juniper Networks was evaluated among 17 companies.

June 2004
Infonetics Research Market Share Leadership
Juniper Networks Named SSL VPN Market Share Leader by Infonetics Research
In Infonetics Research, Inc.'s "VPN and Firewall Appliances and Software Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts for 1Q04" publication, Infonetics Research reports that Juniper Networks is the overwhelming SSL VPN market leader, garnering 45 percent of the world's SSL VPN revenue market share during 1Q'04. The next largest player trails with only 12 percent of the industry's revenue market share, according to the report.

March 2004
Forrester Market Leadership Award
Forrester SSL VPN Wave Market Leader
In Forrester Research's first evaluation of the SSL VPN industry, Juniper is proclaimed the clear market leader in this Forrester Wave Report, due to its strongest product offering, soundest strategy, and largest market presence.

January 2004
Frost & Sullivan Security Products of the Year Award
Frost & Sullivan Security Product of the Year
Juniper's NetScreen Secure Access SSL VPN won the Security Technologies Product of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan.

September 2003
Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award
"Juniper is the dominating force in the SSL VPN product market, leading with a 36 percent market share, more than 20 percentage points ahead of the closest competitor. As Neoteris at the time, the company was the first to introduce SSL VPN product technology to the market, and has been leveraging its first mover advantage since that introduction. Juniper has done almost everything bigger, better, and faster than the competition. Juniper is easily the most visible player in this market, in which the company has led by example. For establishing itself as the prominent SSL VPN vendor, Juniper is awarded the Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award."

April 2003
Instat/MDR Market Share Leader
Application-Layer SSL VPN Market Leader
"As the first company to provide appliance-based instant secure access to applications over SSL, Juniper continues to have the leading market share. Through product innovations, strong management, and a growing technology partner program, Juniper demonstrates its leadership and commitment to solving critical customer needs in this fast-growing security category."

January 2003
Frost & Sullivan 2002 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year
2002 Network Security Entrepreneurial Company of the Year
"Juniper demonstrates superior entrepreneurial ability in identifying a unique and revolutionary product solution with significant market potential. Juniper has built a strong customer base and effective technology and reseller partnerships. Its SSL VPN technology uniquely meets today's demands for secure, browser-based remote network access."