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Juniper Networks Rated 'Positive' by Leading Analyst Firm's Evaluation of Network Access Control
Evaluation Criteria Include Offering Strategy and Overall Viability
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LAS VEGAS, April 28, 2008 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, announced it received a "Positive" rating in Gartner's recently published MarketScope for Network Access Control (NAC), 2008.¹ The report evaluates vendors based on the company's understanding of the NAC market; its marketing, sales and offering (product) strategy; sales execution and pricing; and its overall viability (business unit, financial, strategy, organization).
According to the MarketScope, Gartner has defined the NAC market to be those vendors that sell appliance-based or endpoint software-based NAC solutions. To be included in the MarketScope, vendors' solutions must be composed of the policy, baseline and access control elements of NAC.
"We believe the Positive rating of our Unified Access Control solution is proof positive of Juniper's leadership in product development and execution," said Sanjay Beri, vice president, Access Solutions, Juniper Networks. "Ensuring that employees, contractors and guests - connecting in a wired or wireless way from any device, and from any location - are dynamically provisioned with the right access control and security policies on the network is a critical problem for enterprises. Juniper's UAC is a comprehensive, proven solution that best solves this problem. Because of Juniper's ongoing ability to deliver best-in-class, innovative security solutions based on a highly scalable and open network infrastructure, customers have greater choice and control in quickly meeting high-performance business requirements."
The report also stated, "Gartner estimates that the NAC market grew 87% from 2006 to a total of $225 million in 2007. Gartner anticipates that the market will grow approximately 100% in 2008."
To view a copy of "MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008," compliments of Juniper Networks, go to http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/juniper/vol3/article4/article4.html.
About the Gartner MarketScope
The Gartner MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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.
1) Gartner, Inc., "MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008" by Lawrence Orans, John Pescatore, Mark Nicolett, March 25, 2008
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