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As part of our corporate citizenship and sustainability strategy, Juniper aims to reduce energy consumption and resource depletion by designing and delivering energy-efficient technologies, products and solutions that maximize the utility of the network. Juniper's fast, secure and reliable high-performance networking solutions help companies drive efficiencies in their operations and to do so at scale, thereby ensuring a low total cost of ownership through upgradeability and redeployment, low space and energy requirements, and consolidated network management. The inherent nature of the network also allows companies to deliver products and services to customers in a way that is often less negatively impactful on the environment than traditional ways of doing business.

Juniper designs with the environment in mind, utilizing recyclable, reusable and reclaimable components in its products and packaging. We work to take back products in accordance with the EU's WEEE program, and ensure that the health and safety of the workers building our products and solutions, as well as the health of the communities in which the products are recycled or disposed.

Through our own programs as well as international standards bodies like ITU and membership organizations like ATIS, we collaborate with governments, other vendors in the industry, and service provider and enterprise customers to develop and implement energy efficiency metrics that can be used to measure the energy efficiency of the network—ensuring that the most work gets done at the least energy cost.

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Juniper Networks invests significant engineering and financial resources into research and development of energy-efficient and responsible networking products and tools. Building on its innovative technological legacy, the company continues to deliver solutions that provide increased throughput using less energy than competing products on the market, giving customers the opportunity to reduce their space, energy and cooling requirements, including:

• SRX Series - industry's first Dynamic Services Gateway, is a new category of devices that offers an extensible solution to scaling integrated services and networking capabilities on a single platform. The innovations delivered by this architecture will allow customers to accelerate new service deployments, while saving up to 75 percent on space and using up to 50 percent less power than alternative solutions.
• The T-Series Router - a multi-terabit capable core router - consumes 40 percent less power, requires 40 percent less cooling, and takes up half the physical space of competitive platforms.
• Juniper Control System (JCS) - industry's first high-performance control plane scaling system - enables customers to implement service-specific network virtualization. In addition to the control and scale benefits, this virtualization reduces operational and capital costs by consolidating network equipment and functions, resulting in space and energy savings of up to 60% over traditional solutions.
• TX-Matrix Plus - The TX Matrix Plus architecture is designed to support up to 25 Tbps of capacity by integrating up to sixteen T1600s, and all the energy efficiencies they deliver, into a single multi-chassis routing node. This multi-chassis router can be managed as a single, unified router, or combined with the JCS 1200 to enable the secure virtualization of core routers — which creates efficiencies by consolidating networks, services and functionality.
• The EX-Series - Ethernet switch family - using Juniper's Virtual Chassis technology, which enables up to 10 EX 4200 series switches to be interconnected and managed as a single logical device, the EX-series switches occupy up to 80 percent less space and consume up to 53 percent less power than competing solutions offering similar port densities. In addition, the Virtual Chassis technology enables customers to add capacity as needed, maximizing network utility while helping to eliminate unnecessary space, energy and cooling consumption.
• MX Series Router - Carrier Ethernet routing and switching family - offers energy efficient Carrier Ethernet solutions that are 2.5 to 3 times more power efficient than competing products.

Beyond the individual peformance of the solutions in Juniper's portfolio, it's high-performance networking enables customers to achieve maximum leverage from their network infrastructure, reducing complexity and delivering operational simplicity that can produce energy efficiency benefits. Juniper Networks offers a broad range of integrated high-performance networking products, offering customers the simplicity and efficiencies associated with replacing a number of single, discrete devices with a single solution

• Juniper offers a range of solutions in each product family, so that a customer can choose the one that is most appropriate for their deployment. These right-sized solutions prevent over-engineering that can result in wasteful energy consumption. Juniper has brought many innovations to market to ensure customers can deploy only what they want and need to ensure maximum utility.
• Juniper's application acceleration technology is designed to improve the performance of business critical applications across the WAN and translates into more efficient use of application servers, reducing the need to deploy more infrastructure and resulting in less energy and cooling consumption.

Juniper strives to create products with extended life cycles to help divert hardware from landfills and reduce overall waste. In addition to adhering to the strictest standards for reuse, recycling, and reclamation of information technology, we help customers "future-proof" and extend the life of their network infrastructure.

JUNOS® Software, a single operating system that spans our full product portfolio, and modular architecture ensures that new offerings are compatible with previous high-performance networking infrastructure. This maximizes the utility of the infrastructure and enables customers to deploy new solutions with minimal architectural changes or disruption.

The modular architecture also allows for the reuse of existing hardware and line cards. For example, Juniper PICs can be reused in almost all of our network infrastructure solutions. The existing T640 Core Router chassis can be used to upgrade to a T1600. Juniper's innovative approach allows customers to extend the life of their hardware and achieve the industry-leading 1.6 Tbps of throughput without having to replace and dispose of chassis hardware.

Juniper Networks offers a variety of remote access (SSL VPN) products that efficiently support an organization's mobile and remote users. Our solutions facilitate telecommuting to reduce pollution and address the energy costs associated with operating very small offices. By deploying our market-leading SSL VPN gateways, Juniper customers are able to efficiently scale their network and provide mobile users access to resources.

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Many Juniper solutions include virtualization features, which maximize the utility of the infrastructure by enabling multiple individual instances of a solution to run in a single physical device, to deliver efficiency gains. For example:

• Juniper routers support virtual routers and its firewalls support virtual systems, enabling a single device to independently process and manage traffic from different customers (e.g. in the case of a service provider) and different rule sets (e.g. for different parts of the same enterprise network).
• Juniper also has a carrier-class SSL VPN solution with end-to-end virtualization capabilities that enables service providers to offer remote and extranet access, disaster recovery and Intranet LAN security services (e.g. wireless LAN, VoIP) to their enterprise customers worldwide. Being able to maintain the integrity of many independent systems within a single physical device means that multiple devices no longer need to be deployed in the network, saving space, energy and cooling costs.
• With the TX Matrix Plus and JCS 1200, Juniper enables the hardware virtualization of the highly scalable, adaptable T1600 core routers. These routers can be partitioned — on a per slot basis — into multiple virtual routers, each of which might represent services or network element types, and which can share resources such as interconnecting links and uplinks. This unique ability ensures service providers can maintain the appropriate levels of administrative and service-specific separation, security and management while still recognizing the significant efficiency and cost-savings benefits of virtualization.

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