Juniper Networks Earns ’Company Of The Year’ In 2007 Varbusiness Annual Report Card Security Appliances Category

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) today announced the company was awarded the “Company of the Year” in the Security Appliances category for product and partnership in this year’s Annual Report Card (ARC) survey from CMP Channel’s VARBusiness Magazine.

“This is an incredibly rewarding moment for Juniper Networks and our distribution and alliance partners,” said Frank Vitagliano, senior vice president, worldwide channels and U.S. enterprise operations. “Our channel momentum is being fueled by partner enablement, product innovation and partner-branded solutions. Our continued investments in these three areas earned us the ARC award in security appliances and will continue to drive our growth and the growth of our J-Partners.”

The annual VARBusiness ARC awards recognize outstanding partner programs and vendor service in 15 product and service categories including mobile computers, mainstream business servers, voice networking hardware, data and information management software, and security appliances. Category winners are selected based on the survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting organizations, value-added resellers, solution providers and software developers.

“Vendors participating in the VARBusiness Annual Report Card are graded by their own solution provider partners, making the ARC the IT channel’s most defining research on vendor/partner relationships for twenty-two years,” said Robert C. Demarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel. “We applaud each of the vendors named to this year’s ARC and congratulate the winners of each category.”