Juniper Networks Showcases High-Performance Network Infrastructure At Interop las Vegas

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) today announced the company’s high-performance network infrastructure will be showcased at Interop Las Vegas, May 20-25, 2007. At booth #539 and throughout the show floor, attendees will learn how the Juniper Networks enterprise routing, security and application performance solutions create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications from a single network.

Juniper experts in the areas of application performance, controlling access and threat management will participate in the following speaking sessions at Interop Las Vegas:

Sunday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. PT (Breakers F): Michael Banic, senior director of product management, will give a presentation at the Interop Data Summit titled, “Data Center Initiatives for the Real-Time Enterprise.”
Tuesday, May 22 at 11:30 a.m. PT (Breakers F): Michael Banic, senior director of product management, will participate on a panel titled, “Optimizing the Network for Branch Efficiency.”
Wednesday, May 23 at 3:30 p.m. PT (Lagoon F): Karthik Krishnan, senior product line manager, will participate on a panel titled, “The Truth about NAC.”
Wednesday, May 23 at 12:15 p.m. PT: Karthik Krishnan, senior product line manager, will give a presentation titled, “Beyond Layered Services.”
Thursday, May 24 at 8:00 a.m. PT (Breakers F): Michael Peachey, product line manager, will participate on a panel titled, “Connecting Islands of Enterprise VoIP.”
Juniper Booth #539 – Solutions for High-Performance Businesses
Innovative businesses view the network as critical to their success. Unfortunately, they struggle to keep up with escalating demands and risks that compromises their effectiveness. Unlike the competition, Juniper Networks’ open infrastructure delivers greater choice and control in quickly meeting high-performance business requirements while reducing costs. Juniper Networks’ enterprise security solutions help customers more effectively mitigate threats in the increasingly extended enterprise, safeguard and improve the performance of mission-critical applications and enable a comprehensive access control infrastructure. Juniper Networks’ solutions that will be on display at Interop Las Vegas include:

Enterprise Routing: J-series Service routers
Security: Integrated Security Gateway with Intrusion Detection and Prevention (ISG with IDP) firewall/VPN and intrusion prevention platforms, Security Services Gateway (SSG) as unified threat management (UTM) devices, Secure Access SSL VPN appliances, and Unified Access Control (UAC)
Application Performance: DX application acceleration and load balancing platform and WX appliances for managed WAN acceleration solutions
NAC Day Sponsor
This full-day seminar will cover important concepts surrounding network access control. The event will cover specific issues in deploying network access control and key strategies enterprises can use to ensure successful NAC planning and implementation. A panel of leading NAC experts will debate issues and answer questions, including Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks and co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) work group, and Denzil Wessels, technical marketing manager at Juniper Networks.

InteropLabs – VoIP: Security & Integration Initiative
InteropLabs will demonstrate how Quality of Service (QoS) works with wireless LAN (WLAN) deployment methodologies using the Juniper Networks SSG 5 firewall/VPN platform. The SSG 5 will be used to prioritize VoIP traffic over a WLAN, showcasing the QoS capabilities of ScreenOS real-time, a security-specific operating system for the Juniper Networks firewall/VPN platforms. A Juniper Networks IDP 200 will be used to protect VoIP infrastructure against SIP-based attacks, detecting and mitigating SIP attacks using the “recommended policy” feature in the recently announced IDP 4.1 software.

InteropLabs – Network Access Control Initiative
InteropLabs will be demonstrating how to solve typical customer use cases for NAC using a standards-based approach. The Juniper Networks UAC solution will be deployed in conjunction with multiple solutions supporting the TNC open standards from the Trusted Computing Group, as well as network infrastructure solutions supporting the 802.1X standard.

InteropNet Security Sponsor
InteropNet is the world’s largest mobile temporary network. Juniper Networks security solutions will protect the network perimeter and the shared network operations center (NOC) services for InteropNet. Juniper Networks high-performance networking solutions supporting InteropNet include the J6350 branch services router and M7i Multiservice edge router. Juniper Networks solutions helping to safeguard InteropNet include the ISG 1000 and 2000 firewall/VPN platforms with integrated IDP, NetScreen Security Manager, Secure Access SSL VPN appliances, Steel-Belted Radius servers and Unified Access Control.

Press and Analyst Meetings
Juniper Networks executives will be attending the conference and will be available to speak with press and industry analysts on a number of technology and market trends. For press interested in scheduling briefings with Juniper Networks executives, please contact Roger Fortier (408-936-7631, rfortier@juniper.net) or Kim Markle (408-936-7673, kmarkle@juniper.net). For industry analysts interested in scheduling briefings, please contact Erin Lawrence at (408) 936-4188 or elawrence@juniper.net.