New Juniper-Sponsored Research by RAND Corporation on Cyber Black Markets

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, finds the cyber black markets have a mature economy with characteristics akin to those of a thriving metropolitan city. A new global report, sponsored by Juniper Networks and conducted by the RAND Corporation, reveals several economic indicators that cyber black markets have reached unprecedented levels of maturity and growth.

While there has been significant research measuring different parts of the hacker black markets, RAND's report, "Markets for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data: Hackers' Bazaar," examines for the first time these markets in their entirety and applies economic analysis to better understand how they function. RAND found significant levels of economic sophistication, reliability, accessibility and resilience in the products, distribution channels and actors involved in the black markets.

RAND's report, confirmed by Juniper's vast experience in the network security ecosystem, suggests the cyber black markets are a mature and growing multi-billion-dollar economy with a robust infrastructure and social organization. RAND found these black markets, like any other economy, react to market forces like supply and demand, and continue to evolve.

Highlights:

Juniper Networks likens the hacker black markets to a thriving metropolitan city with diverse communities, industries and interactions.

Storefronts - Like other forms of e-commerce, many data records, exploit kits and goods are bought and sold from storefronts -- which can encompass everything from instant messaging chat channels and forums to sophisticated stores. RAND found some organizations can reach 70 to 80,000 people, with a global footprint that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Service Economy - RAND found that not only goods, but criminal services are available for purchase. These tools, sold on the black market as traditional software or leased like any other managed service, can help enable the most unskilled hackers to launch fairly elaborate and advanced attacks. For example, RAND found botnets, which can be used to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, are sold for as low as $50 for a 24-hour attack.
Hierarchal Society - Much like a legitimate business, RAND found it takes connections and relationships to move up the (cyber) food chain. Getting to the top requires personal connections and those at the top are making the lion's share of the money.
Rule of Law - There is indeed honor among thieves. RAND found many parts of the cyber black market are well structured, policed and have rules like a constitution. In addition, those who scam others are regularly banned or otherwise pushed off the market.
Education and Training - RAND identified widely available tools and resources on the black markets that teach criminals how to hack, including instructions for exploit kits and where to buy credit cards. This access to training has accelerated sophistication, a broader set of roles and has helped facilitate entry into the hacker economy.
Currencies - Transactions in the cyber black markets are often conducted by means of digital currencies. Bitcoin, Pecunix, AlertPay, PPcoin, Litecoin, Feathercoin, and Bitcoin extensions such as Zerocoin are a few. RAND found many criminal sites are starting to accept only digital crypto currencies due to their anonymity and security characteristics.
Diversity - While RAND found cybercriminals from China, Latin America and Eastern Europe are typically known for quantity in malware attacks, those from Russia tend to be thought of the leader in quality. RAND also found areas of expertise and focus among different countries. Many Vietnamese criminal groups, for example, mainly focus on e-commerce hacks. Cybercriminals from Russia, Romania, Lithuania and Ukraine focus on financial institutions. Many Chinese cybercriminals specialize in intellectual property. And U.S.-based cybercriminals primarily target U.S.-based financial systems. In addition to a diverse set of cybercriminals, RAND also found more cross-pollination between these groups than ever before.
Criminals - Even the criminal cyber black market has criminals. Known as "rippers," these specific bad guys do not provide the goods or services they claim.
The research report, "Markets for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data: Hackers' Bazaar," is based on in-depth interviews conducted by RAND between October and December 2013, with global experts who are currently or formerly involved in the market, including academics, security researchers, reporters, security vendors and law enforcement. It is the first of a series of reports from RAND that are sponsored by Juniper Networks.

JUNIPER NETWORKS EXPANDS SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING PORTFOLIO TO HELP SERVICE PROVIDERS BUILD HIGH-IQ NETWORKS

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation introduced new solutions that expand on its open standards-based software-defined networking (SDN) portfolio to enable carriers to accelerate service creation and build networks that deliver a customized end-user experience. Together with its Contrail technology, Juniper’s solutions give service providers the ability to increase network utilization and deliver new, customized services to their customers in real-time. With these latest developments, Juniper now offers the industry’s only open, secure, multi-layered, multi-domain SDN solution.

Service providers remain under significant pressure to stay profitable in the face of a data deluge driven by high-definition video streaming, mobile data, cloud computing and Internet-connected devices. At the same time, consumers now expect more customized experiences. According to a recent Bain & Company study, consumers paid an average of 28 percent more for customized goods than “off-the-shelf” products from the same manufacturer.[1] Today, however, service providers must perform complicated and cumbersome manual network changes that prevent the possibility of dynamic bandwidth, function and service provisioning.

Juniper Networks is expanding its SDN portfolio with new software and hardware to help service providers build high-IQ networks and cloud environments. These networks are secure, automated and scalable, enabling rapid service provisioning based on actionable intelligence.

The new SDN solutions from Juniper – which will help carriers address impending 5G demands – reduce complexity, enable networks to securely and intuitively adapt to user preferences in real-time and make existing hardware more efficient and versatile. These innovations will enable service providers to:

1.       Automate network operations for simplicity and agility in response to dynamic service needs, while reducing operational costs.

·         Juniper today is unveiling Junos® Fusion, software that can control thousands of independent network elements – either from Juniper or a third-party – from a single management plane. A large network may have multiple core routers, hundreds of edge routers and tens of thousands of additional touch points for transport, aggregation and backhaul, such as microwave, mobile or optical devices. With Junos Fusion, service providers can reduce network complexity and operational costs by collapsing those underlying transport elements into a single point of control from the Juniper Networks® MX Series or PTX Series routing platforms. Junos Fusion is fully interoperable with third-party solutions and is extensible to SDN control.

·         Combining Junos Fusion with the Juniper Networks Contrail controller and Junos Space network management software provides a powerful portfolio of capabilities to simplify the network and make it more responsive to changing service offerings and needs. Junos Fusion will be available Q2 2014.



2.       Scale the network infrastructure with silicon and SDN to deliver the performance and efficiency needed to economically meet demand.

·         Juniper is expanding its SDN portfolio with Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller, a new traffic-engineering controller leveraging open, industry-standard protocols built to optimize service providers’ transport networks. Expected to be available in the second half of 2014, the NorthStar Controller will automatically identify and program the optimal path within a multi-vendor network, based on operator-defined performance and cost requirements. This will allow service providers to increase utilization, create service-oriented network paths and dynamically adjust to changing network conditions. As a result, service providers can better support dynamic mobile and cloud traffic, avoid costly over provisioning, mitigate wasted CAPEX spend and reduce planning cycles of current static networks.

·         Through the integration of WANDL technology, recently acquired by Juniper Networks, NorthStar Controller is equipped with highly intelligent analytics and modeling capabilities to enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of an operator’s network infrastructure.

·         Today, Juniper is also introducing its 1 TB line cards adding further scale to the PTX Series router. Available in Q2 2014, the new line cards double the PTX router’s per-slot capacity to provide operators with more usable per-path bandwidth, yield greater network efficiency and reduce additional CAPEX and OPEX.


3.       Create new customizable services rapidly using an intelligent and programmable network to increase revenue and brand equity.

·         Creating value for service providers is predicated on knowing what users are doing on the network and being able to act on it quickly. Today, with the new Junos Video Focus, Junos Subscriber Aware, Junos Application Aware and Junos Policy Control  products available on the MX Series routers, operators can use the MX in the Gi-LAN as a Service Control Gateway (SCG) to custom-tailor service experiences not only based on who is using the network, but what they are using it for. These SCG functions will be available in mid-2014.

·         Together with Juniper Networks Contrail, service providers can leverage that intelligence to immediately implement Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and quickly provision new services, such as security firewalls like Firefly Perimeter and DDoS Secure, as well as adapt to changing business needs. In addition, service providers can create different service experiences and service chains for different subscribers, based on device, network or application, and charge accordingly.

·         Today, Juniper also introduced the CSE2000 Carrier Services Engine, a purpose-built, NEBS-compliant server platform for the service provider environment. This provides customers with the flexibility to virtualize network functions on the router, in a carrier-grade central office (CO) or on a standard x86 server in the data center, providing the ability to optimize service location based on performance and cost requirements. The CSE2000 is available now.


To assist customers with the transition to highly customizable networks, Juniper Networks offers a full range of professional services. These include assessment, planning and migration services to support customers with roadmap development, design, deployment and integration with their existing service provider operations.

Juniper Networks will be showcasing its innovations in Hall 2, Booth #2061 at Mobile World Congress 2014. In addition, the company will be demonstrating its NorthStar and Contrail Controllers for NFV and SDN at OFC 2014, taking place March 11 – 13 in San Francisco at Booth #309, and at MPLS World Congress, taking place March 18 – 21 in Paris at Booth #102.

Quotes:

"At Sprint, we are committed to delivering the most innovative and high-quality network services on the market. Doing this effectively requires a network that is increasingly scalable, agile and automated. Juniper's approach to service provider networks is exciting as it focuses on the need to evolve networks so services can be brought to market at a faster pace."
- Iyad Tarazi, vice president, Network Development, Sprint


"Juniper's approach is exciting to see as NTT Communications looks to the future evolution of networks. NTT Communications views the ultimate goal of enabling network virtualization and automation as critical to the continued and rapid growth of network importance to our customers. Juniper's view on networks of the future aligns very closely with NTT Communications' vision and we look forward to providing our customers with the great experience they have come to expect from us."
- Kempei Fukuda, director, Network Services, NTT Communications

“At Telekom Malaysia we have embarked on an aggressive program to create services faster, simplify network operations through automation and scale cost-effectively to meet demand. The next quantum leap in performance and flexibility requires a new network architecture: leaner, adaptable in real-time to changing service and traffic conditions, and flexible to meet our customers’ demands. Juniper offers a vision of the network we are trying to build: we are excited to see Juniper working with us to help realize this vision.”
- Giorgio Migliarina, chief technology and innovation officer, Telekom Malaysia

“Expanding Juniper’s SDN portfolio aimed at service providers will enable custom service creation opportunities for carriers. What is new and different is Juniper’s approach to open, multi-vendor network management of NFV-based services, such as virtual firewall and VPN, which is what service providers are saying they need in order to grow revenues and satisfy consumer and enterprise requirements for flexible service offerings.”

- Nav Chander, research manager, IDC

 “Historically, service provider networks have expanded economies, given voices to the otherwise unheard, and brought people and communities closer together. Imagine what the next evolution of the network could deliver if it could inherently eliminate complexity for end users and operators, adapt on the fly to deliver experiences based on user preferences, and if intelligent software could be added to make existing hardware more efficient and versatile. That is what Juniper will deliver with an optimized, automated, high-IQ network that allows for real-time customization.”
- Rami Rahim, executive vice president, Platform Systems Division, Juniper Networks

JUNIPER NETWORKS LAUNCHES PRODUCTION-READY SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING SOLUTION TO BRING NETWORKING INTO THE CLOUD ERA

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced the availability of Juniper Networks Contrail, a standards-based and highly scalable network virtualization and intelligence solution for software-defined networks (SDN). Contrail is a production-ready SDN solution shipping today that is based on stable and proven networking standards. Contrail creates a virtual network, enabling seamless integration between physical and virtual networks while providing service providers and enterprises with a solution that is simple, open and agile. This network virtualization and intelligence solution has been in trials with more than 40 global customers. Juniper Networks is also unveiling new technology development partnerships and product integrations with Contrail that will help customers pragmatically and confidently evolve to SDN.


Enterprises are looking for more efficient ways to build private, public and hybrid clouds to increase application deployment agility. However, traditional networking has not kept pace and can still be manual, static and complex. Contrail virtualizes the network, brings advanced networking capabilities into the hypervisor and integrates with cloud orchestration systems, to enable seamless automation and orchestration across multiple cloud platforms. The solution also offers a robust analytics engine, providing a real-time view into network operations. Network and cloud service providers are under tremendous pressure to develop, deploy and monetize new services, but most services are difficult to reconfigure or adapt to changing user demands. Contrail empowers these customers to quickly bring new services to market by providing a smooth transition with automatic provisioning and dynamic service chaining in cloud environments that run on x86-based servers. The commercial version of Contrail is available today through Juniper Software Advantage and is offered as both a perpetual and subscription software license.  Perpetual license is priced at US$1,700 per socket and one year subscription license at US$1,000 per socket.


News Highlights:

·         Juniper Networks Contrail – Formerly known as JunosV Contrail, the network virtualization and intelligence solution is comprised of all the components needed to create a virtual overlay network: SDN controller, vRouter, and analytics engine. In trial with leading service provider and enterprise customers, Contrail has proven the following benefits:

o   A simple way to connect physical networks with a virtual environment and provision underlying services, reducing the time, cost and risk for customers when configuring the network.

o   Juniper Contrail seamlessly integrated with Juniper Networks flagship virtual firewall, Firefly Perimeter, which is the first of many Juniper SDN-enabled security services that provides unparalleled performance, scale and coverage across virtualized data centers.  With this integration customers benefit from simplified orchestration, provisioning and management of service-chained virtual and physical security services.

o   Eliminates the risk of vendor-lock-in for customers by leveraging a standards-based architecture that integrates with a wide variety of hypervisors, physical networks and cloud orchestration platforms including compatibility with both CloudStack and OpenStack platforms.

o   Seamlessly integrates with most industry switches and routers today including the Juniper Networks MX, EX and QFX Series, providing customers with a quick and easy migration path to SDN without any disruption to underlying physical network architecture and investment.

o   Accelerates the connection of virtual resources and enables the federation of private, public or hybrid cloud environments, increasing the speed of business and service innovation for customers by making the network more dynamic, flexible and automated.

o   Fast troubleshooting and diagnostics through unique analytics capability, enabling customers to manage their networks more intelligently and efficiently.

·         Technology Development Ecosystem Partners – Juniper also announced technology partnerships that enable the development of solutions through integration with Contrail to facilitate SDN and cloud deployment, enable dynamic service chaining and improve visibility and insights into network operations. New partners include Cedexis, CheckPoint, Citrix, Cloudscaling, Dorado Software, Flash Networks, Gencore Systems, Gigamon, Guavus, ISC8, Lumeta, Mirantis, Red Hat, RiverBed, Sandvine, SevOne, Silver Peak, Sonus Networks, and Websense.

·         Juniper Partner Advantage Cloud Program - Introduced on Sept. 12 and part of Juniper’s Partner Advantage Program, Partner Advantage Cloud consist of training and certification to ensure high levels of cloud and SDN knowledge. The program will provide new revenue opportunities for Juniper’s Elite partners while providing mutual customers with a network of trusted advisors, designed to move them forward with SDN confidently. New partners include ICT Networks, NERA Telecommunications, Nissho Electronics and Xantaro Group.

·         Juniper and IBM Solution – Juniper announced a new partnership with IBM that integrates Contrail with IBM’s SmartCloud Orchestrator. The resulting joint technology solution allows customers to deploy and manage highly scalable cloud infrastructures with the ability to provision services rapidly across virtualized compute, storage and network resources to increase business agility.



In a related announcement, Juniper Networks today introduced OpenContrail, an open source software platform that makes the core software powering Contrail available through an open source license. Customers will benefit from the innovation driven through OpenContrail’s open source community, while at the same time giving them the confidence that comes with a product that has undergone Juniper Networks rigorous quality assurance testing. OpenContrail is available for download at www.opencontrail.org. Full press release with details can be found here: Juniper Networks Introduces OpenContrail: An Open Source Solution to Foster Innovation and Adoption of Software-Defined Networking.

Quotes:


“Cyberport is a leading information and communications technology hub in the Asia-Pacific region.  As we evolve into offering cloud services, we evaluated Juniper Contrail and are impressed with its ability to provide a secure multi-tenant cloud architecture leveraging OpenStack, our orchestration platform.  Since Contrail is based on proven networking standards and protocols, we expect it will provide seamless integration with our existing network.”
-          Dr. David Chung, chief technology officer, Cyberport, Hong Kong


“ISPrime is a leading hosting provider, and we pride ourselves on the performance and availability of all our systems, including the network. When we were evaluating a virtual networking solution to enable our new cloud services, we required a level of performance and agility that was not available with traditional solutions. We found that Juniper Network Contrail delivers the advanced networking capabilities we require, while working together with our existing MX Series platforms to offer rich networking capabilities that span both the physical and virtual network.”
-          Phil Rosenthal, chief technology officer, ISPRIME



“We have been using Juniper Networks Contrail solution for several months now, and have been impressed with its ability to speed service introduction by automating the provisioning of virtual networks, and enable new types of services by orchestrating network connectivity across public, private and hybrid clouds. Contrail was also able to integrate seamlessly with our existing homemade orchestration system.”

-          Mathieu Paonessa, network architect, Jaguar Network


“As SunGard continues to expand our cloud service portfolio, it is important for us to ensure that our cloud network is flexible, scalable and dynamic—and SDN technologies like Juniper Networks Contrail solution can bring this agility to the network. Juniper’s Contrail SDN controller is unique because it brings advanced layer 3 IP/MPLS routing capabilities into the hypervisor, while integration with orchestration platforms like CloudStack makes it simple to manage. This enables us to extend our existing network into the virtual word without the need to train server staff in routing protocols.”
-          Nik Weidenbacher, principal engineer, SunGard Availability Services


Partner Quotes

“By combining Cedexis Radar and Juniper Networks Contrail, we will deliver on the SDN vision of web and mobile experiences that are uniquely optimized for actual end users.  The ability to use real-time big data sets, such as Cedexis Radar real end-user telemetry to shape and control Contrail SDN-enabled networks, will provide performance benefits for end users along with control, differentiation and costs benefits for enterprises.”
-          Marty Kagan, chief executive officer, Cedexis, Inc.


“By integrating Check Point’s security services with Juniper Networks Contrail, our customers will have a more simplified solution that offers greater choice and flexibility in building highly secure and agile virtual networks. Check Point believes the time is right to move SDN toward widespread adoption and looks forward to participating in Juniper Networks’ SDN Technology Partner Program. Contrail’s service chaining capabilities allows our customers to automate service insertion in virtual networks to address the increasing demand for this important need.”
-          Alon Kantor, vice president of business development, Check Point Software Technologies


“A leading provider of solutions that are powering the Cloud Era, Citrix has a proven track record of helping its customers build some of the world’s largest and most successful public and private clouds. The integration of two open-source based technologies, Juniper Contrail with Citrix CloudPlatform addresses customer demand for choice and flexibility. Juniper Networks and Citrix are providing our joint customers with an agile and open platform for building and delivering powerful cloud services on existing physical and emerging software defined networks.”
-          Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix


“With Contrail, Cloudscaling is able to provide a turnkey, open architecture, elastic cloud infrastructure solution that it highly interoperable with both existing data center environments and elastic public clouds. The Contrail SDN Controller is the foundation for the Open Cloud System’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking capability, enabling provisioning of virtual networks on demand with full control of the network fabric.”
-          Azmir Mohamed, vice president of product management, Cloudscaling


“The integration of Dorado’s Redcell products with Juniper Networks Contrail helps us support service providers to recognize immediate benefits from their Network Function Virtualization (NFV) initiatives by providing a predictable path to operationalizing industry-leading SDN solutions, like Contrail.”
-          Chris Simon, director of service provider business unit, Dorado Software


“Flash Networks' Harmony solutions support deployments in a virtualized network environment, enabling mobile operators to accelerate, optimize, and monetize their data traffic with increased network flexibility and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership. Flash Networks is committed to delivering the best possible performance to our customers, and Juniper’s Contrail pioneering open standards-based IP solution for network as a service (NaaS) will allow us to deliver Harmony on mobile operators' cloud-based networks, even more efficiently and cost effectively.”
-          Liam Galin, president and chief executive officer, Flash Networks



“As a spinoff from the University of Pennsylvania, Gencore is pleased to engage Juniper Networks, and develop our SDN solutions on the Juniper software platforms. Contrail is a proven SDN architecture that enables us to rapidly deploy next-generation software-based network functions and analytics services on our Gencore Scalanytics platform. The combined use of Scalanytics and Contrail allows for more agile network infrastructures, applications, and services that react quickly to reconfigure themselves dynamically.”
-          Dr. Boon Thau Loo, co-founder of Gencore Systems and Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania



“Gigamon is pleased to join the Juniper Networks SDN Technology Partner Program. Gigamon is committed to providing pervasive visibility into all networks and topologies including SDN architectures like that provided by Juniper’s Contrail platform. We anticipate that operators will see greater provisioning ease and automation using Contrail’s service chaining workflow in conjunction with Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric, which provides the additional intelligence and packet modification required to send the right data to the right tools. Our joint customers can look forward to greater value through this partnership to maintain traffic visibility as they evolve their networks from physical to virtual and SDN models.”
-          Peter Finter, chief marketing officer, Gigamon


“As the industry evolves towards software-defined networks, the need for streaming analytics will become much more critical.  Essentially serving as the brains behind the network, analytics can help service providers dynamically provision networks, utilize resources more efficiently and realize immediate business value, We are excited to partner with Juniper  to help communication service providers realize the full potential of intelligent data driven networks as they transition to SDN.”
-          Roy Singh, chief technology officer, Guavus


“Cloud Computing is spurring innovation and changing the way we think about technology. At IBM we believe open source and open standards are essential for even greater levels of innovation, which is why we are excited to partner with Juniper Networks on an open solution that will provide our mutual customers with the ability to deploy and manage highly scalable cloud infrastructures through the seamless integration of IBM’s SmartCloud Orchestrator and Juniper’s Contrail SDN controller. Both companies’ commitment to open source cloud technologies provides our customers with choice and a platform for managing heterogeneous environments.”

-          Angel Diaz, vice president, Software Standards and Cloud Labs, IBM


“As Juniper Networks’ first Australian cloud specialist partner, ICT Networks is committed to working together with Juniper to help our customers evolve toward SDN and cloud orchestration platforms. Our investment in building a Juniper Networks Contrail lab and ensuring our technical staff are trained using the Partner Advantage Cloud specialization to design, install and support the Contrail solution will assist us as we guide our customers in their journey toward robust SDN and cloud deployments.”
-          Robert Kingma, chief executive officer, ICT Networks


“Integrating ISC8’s cybersecurity products into Contrail will help service providers dramatically speed up the deployment of virtualized networks and customized security services while also ensuring that those deployments are secure against the most advanced and sophisticated threats. As a Juniper Networks SDN Technology Partner, we look forward to helping customers keep their valuable network investments one step ahead of the always evolving security threat landscape.”
-          Bill Joll, president and chief executive officer, ISC8, Inc



“Juniper's vision for SDN through the Contrail family embraces open standards-based IP solutions. We are looking forward to working with Juniper to expand options for our clients as they move to the open, cloud and virtualized network environments and to keep those clients in a state of continuous cyber situational awareness through the use of IPsonar ESI.”
-          Matt Webster, chief technology officer, Lumeta



“The integration of Juniper Network Contrail with Mirantis’ Fuel helps customers build SDN-enabled OpenStack clouds easily and safely. As the leading OpenStack company we've seen our customers achieve huge improvements in the speed, flexibility and utilization of their IT infrastructure. Juniper's SDN solution, integrated with Fuel and OpenStack brings our customers one step closer to the fully automated data center running on open source technology.”

-          Adrian Ionel, chief executive officer, Mirantis


“We are pleased to continue to strengthen our relationship with Juniper Networks, and the value we provide to customers, as one of the select resellers to achieve the Cloud specialization within the Partner Advantage program. We believe our training and readiness on SDN and orchestration based on Juniper Networks Contrail solution will help us serve our service provider and enterprise customer base and build on the success that led to NERA Telecommunications winning Juniper’s 2012 Service Provider Partner of the Year in Asia-Pacific.”
-          Samuel Ang, chief executive officer, NERA Telecommunications


“Nissho has been one of the leading resellers and systems integrators of Juniper Networks solutions since 1998. Now with our new Cloud Specialization, we are pleased to be one of the select systems integrators authorized to help our customers adopt Juniper’s cloud, virtualization, SDN and Orchestration technologies. Our technical staff has been fully trained on the Juniper Contrail, we have built a Contrail lab within our organization and we are actively engaged with some of our customers who are looking to move forward with production deployments in Japan.”
-          Toshi Kibe, director & managing executive officer, GM Marketing Division, Nissho Electronics


“Organizations continue to make strategic decisions to adopt an open hybrid cloud because they want choice in vendors and the ability to leverage their existing infrastructure investments.  Juniper's SDN Technology Partner Program embraces open environments and we are looking forward to working with Juniper to expand options for organizations moving to the cloud through the Red Hat OpenStack ecosystem and with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure.”
-          Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, virtualization, Red Hat


“As enterprises look to move beyond SDN to implement SDDCs, Riverbed Stingray is well positioned to support large-scale automated ADC deployments in an as-a-service model with the recently released Stingray Services Controller. ADCs have to be cloud-aware, as dynamic as the application itself, and able to fit into changing environments. Riverbed offers the ideal ADC solutions to support SDDCs and accelerate multi-tier applications quickly and cost-efficiently across any private, public, and hybrid cloud environment. Through the Juniper Networks SDN Technology Partner program, Riverbed and Juniper will work to mitigate the complexities associated with application delivery.”
-          Jeff Pancottine, senior vice president and general manager of Stingray, RiverBed


“Our involvement in Juniper’s SDN Technology Partner Program provides further evidence of Sandvine’s commitment to SDN and policy innovation. As the only policy vendor with an announced SDN & Network Functions Virtualization [NFV] strategy for its platform, Sandvine has foreseen the need for application- and subscriber-aware feature sets in a Software Defined Network, including Network Services Chaining. We see SDN as a means of continuing our innovation leadership into the next realm of policy control: virtualization.”
-          Don Bowman, chief technology officer, Sandvine


“In working with the Juniper Networks Contrail solution, we address a primary concern of any customer considering the move to a SDN or Network as a Service deployment – how to leverage a SDN without losing real-time visibility of how things perform--which is the first step in quickly identifying and rectifying network service disruption.” Murray continued, “SevOne wants to work with network vendors that demonstrate thought leadership and a desire to support multi-vendor networks.  Juniper Networks is a perfect fit.”

-          Casey Murray, vice president of global strategic alliances, SevOne


“As enterprises and service providers begin the transition to virtualized network infrastructure, Juniper’s Contrail controller will greatly simplify insertion and service chaining for solutions like Silver Peak virtual data acceleration. As the leader in virtualized network services, Silver Peak is excited to join Juniper Networks SDN Technology Development Partner Program with a focus on reduced cost and faster time to deployment for our mutual customers.”
-          Marc Trimuschat, vice president of alliances for Silver Peak



“Sonus Networks is an early partner of Juniper as we are working together on network function virtualization.  The introduction of Contrail, an open SDN controller simplifies networking in the virtualization world and we believe is the next step in increasing the service provider's ability to monetize service delivery.  This is illustrated by the Contrail product which we anticipate will provide customers with greater agility in deploying Sonus Networks’ award-winning SBC as a virtualized network service.”

- David Tipping, Vice President and General Manager, Sonus SBC Business



“Our partnership with Juniper Networks around Contrail supports our commitment to providing agile and efficient Websense® TRITON® security to protect organizations from the latest advanced threats and data theft,” said Russ Dietz, Websense CTO. “Contrail’s automated and scale-out service chaining feature will assist joint customers when deploying Websense TRITON in virtualized software defined networks while reducing operational costs.”
-          Russ Dietz, chief technology officer, Websense



“Becoming a Juniper Networks’ Partner Advantage Cloud partner means Xantaro can design and support unique cloud-based solutions to help meet our customers’ expectations and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market environment. Leveraging Juniper Networks Contrail SDN solution also means we can bring innovative solutions to help customers grow their business through new revenue opportunities.”
-          Gerold Arheilger, chief technology officer, Xantaro Group



“SDN has tremendous promise to drive agility, fuel innovation, and reduce costs for both enterprise and service providers.  Customers are excited by this potential, but until now, SDN has been a lot of hype and not much reality.  That changes today with the release of Juniper Networks Contrail and OpenContrail. Together with our broad partner ecosystem, Juniper has not only delivered on our SDN strategy, but we are providing customers with a solution that meets their business needs and eliminates the barriers that have stifled network innovation.”
-          Bob Muglia, executive vice president, Software Solutions Division, Juniper Networks 


Additional Resources:
·         Juniper Networks Contrail homepage

·         Juniper Networks SDN homepage

·         More information on OpenContrail

·         More information on Juniper Technology Partner Program

·         More information on Juniper Partner Advantage Cloud Program

·         More information on IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator

·         Technical data sheet on Juniper Networks Contrail

·         Blogs:

o   Bob Muglia: Juniper Ships Open, Simple, Agile Conrail Controller

o   Ankur Singla: Why Open Source?

o   Aruna Ravichandran: The Open Cloud Network Journey begins today with Juniper Contrail

o   Decoding Software-Defined Networking by Bob Muglia

·         Videos: Juniper Networks Unveils its SDN Strategy

·         Juniper Contrail Customer Case Studies

o    ISPrime

o    Jaguar Network

o   SunGard


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JUNIPER NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH VMWARE TO UNIFY VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL DATA CENTER NETWORKS

 Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with VMware to deliver a broad range of solutions for unifying virtual and physical networks within a virtualized data center environment. These solutions, which will include VMware NSX™ L2 Gateway integration and VXLAN routing capabilities across access, aggregation, core and edge tiers of the data center network, will offer enterprise customers seamless management of workflows across virtualized and non-virtualized systems. Juniper Networks’ VXLAN routing and gateway capabilities enable both intra- and inter-data center solutions and accelerate the transition to software-defined networking (SDN).

Increasingly, enterprises are looking to SDN and network virtualization as a means of easily deploying, managing, and orchestrating public and private cloud networks - tasks that have grown more complex due to the combination of physical and virtual assets. The partnership between Juniper Networks and VMware represents a shared commitment to delivering simplified, flexible solutions that enable customers to more easily migrate to SDN as their business needs evolve.

Highlights:

·         VMware NSX Integration: Juniper Networks is working closely with VMware to develop a broad range of networking solutions that will deliver VMware NSX Layer 2 Gateway functionality to programmatically enable connectivity between virtual and physical network environments. VMware NSX L2 Gateway Services will be offered on Juniper Networks® EX Series and QFX Series core, aggregation and access switching platforms, and MX Series edge routers, providing customers with unparalleled levels of IT flexibility through support for nearly any virtualized data center deployment scenario. VMware NSX L2 Gateway Services are expected to be generally available in mid-2014.

·         Hardware-accelerated VXLAN Routing: To support multi-tenancy or business continuity/disaster recovery initiatives, enterprises need to route network traffic between virtual networks either within a single - or across multiple - data centers. New VXLAN routing capabilities on Juniper Networks MX Series and EX9200 Series Switches will specifically address these needs. These capabilities are expected to be available in mid-2014.

·         Advanced Data Center Automation: To help enterprise customers streamline data center operations across physical and virtual environments, Juniper Networks offers a range of network automation solutions designed to simplify the arduous and time-consuming tasks of network provisioning, day-to-day management and orchestration of network resources. For VMware environments, Juniper Networks offers comprehensive management and advanced analytics as well as troubleshooting capabilities for both physical and virtual infrastructures via its Junos® Space Network Director and will provide integrated management capabilities through a plug-in for VMware vCenter™ Server.

·         Virtual Security Capabilities: Juniper Networks is also working with VMware to extend development of its leading virtual security product portfolio to ensure future integration with VMware NSX and new security and networking application programming interfaces (APIs). Juniper’s wide range of virtual security solutions for VMware environments provides customers with the ability to implement a comprehensive network security solution to protect virtual data center assets.

·         Validated Blueprint for the Virtualized Data Center: Juniper Networks is developing a validated reference architecture that provides customers with a proven methodology for architecting and building out a simplified, integrated network framework to support virtualized data centers. This blueprint, which is expected to be available later this year, will outline technology requirements, best practices and recommended approaches for successfully building a network foundation to support a number of advanced capabilities such as predictable application behavior, streamlined workflow-based configuration and quality of service across physical and virtual networks with ease.


Highlights:

·         Juniper Networks will be showcasing a range of data center and security technology solutions at VMworld 2013 (Booth #1613), including:

o   Connecting virtual and physical networks via VMware NSX integration

o   Data center automation with Junos Space Network Director

o   Virtual security for public and private clouds

o   Counter security for virtualized data centers and cloud environments

·         Masum Mir, senior director of product management for data center products at Juniper Networks, will be speaking at a session entitled, “Bridging and Automating Data Center Infrastructures in a Virtualized and Non-Virtualized World,” on Tuesday, August 27 from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. PT

·         Ashwin Krishnan, senior director of product management for security products at Juniper Networks, will present a session entitled, “Achieving Security Agility in the Virtualized Data Center,” on Wednesday, August 28 from 2 – 3 p.m. PT

·         Jason Sauviac, senior director of technical solutions, and Doug Hanks, senior manager of technical solutions at Juniper Networks, will be speaking about “Integrated Architectures for the Virtualized Data Center,” on Thursday, August 29 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. PT

 Quotes:

“Network virtualization is rapidly transforming virtual data centers today, and as enterprises seek to simplify IT by accelerating their use of private and hybrid cloud environments, physical and virtual networks must be viewed and managed as a single unified infrastructure. Juniper Networks offers a broad level of VMware NSX integration across its routing and switching platforms, which not only provides enterprise customers with unprecedented levels of IT flexibility, but also allows them to fully maximize their data center investments. Our collaboration with Juniper is a proof point of the commitment shared by both companies to continually drive simplicity, visibility and ease of management within the software-defined data center.”
-Hatem Naguib, vice president, Cloud Networking and Security, VMware

“For many enterprise customers, SDN in the data center represents a very real way to derive greater value and IT efficiency from the network, and the advent of VMware NSX L2 Gateway integration and VXLAN routing capabilities allows for a more seamless migration to a virtual network environment. Through our partnership with VMware – which includes joint product development, technology integration and joint go-to-market strategies – we are committed to developing a range of networking solutions for use in VMware environments designed to help customers bridge their virtual and physical data center resources. VMware’s expertise in virtualized computing combined with Juniper’s SDN leadership is a powerful combination.”
-Jonathan Davidson, senior vice president and general manager, Campus and Data Center Business Unit, Juniper Networks

Additional Resources:
·         More information on Juniper Networks’ virtualized data center solutions: www.juniper.net/datacenter

·         Blog: Does your Virtual Network Need More Sizzle? Save your Bacon – Choose Juniper! by Mike Marcellin


About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.

Juniper Networks' survey on federal IT professionals conducted by Wakefield Research

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced the results of its survey of 250 federal IT professionals conducted by Wakefield Research. IT leaders and practitioners in the federal sector who were surveyed are looking to capitalize on major developments in networking technology to align investments with their top agency priorities of cutting costs (72 percent), increasing efficiency and business agility (68 percent) and meeting mandates (60 percent) as they plan for IT spending in the government’s next fiscal year, which begins October 1. As federal IT professionals plan for current and future budget cuts, agencies have to find improvements in IT efficiencies to reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. Additionally, several federal mandates are presenting federal IT workers with a unique set of obstacles as they prepare for the new fiscal year.

The survey showed that a  majority (66 percent) of respondents believe SDN – software designed to create more efficient and agile networks – will be important in accommodating federal mandates or similar efficiency and budgetary requirements with more than one-third (34 percent) claiming they currently have concrete plans to adopt SDN within the next two years. Ninety-one percent of respondents see at least one area in their agency or department that will benefit from SDN and 61 percent of those in executive or management positions consider SDN an important factor in making networking buying decisions. In fact, most respondents who plan to adopt SDN indicate that they intend to do so within the next 13 months. These findings suggest that SDN will become a reality within government faster than many have forecasted.

However, agency preparedness is lacking, with nearly two-thirds (61 percent) surveyed saying they are not familiar with SDN. Even among those familiar with SDN, 58 percent had two or more misconceptions about the implementation of SDN.  For example, 11 percent believed SDN only applied to data centers and 15 percent believed it required manual configuration of hardware. The reality is that SDN is being considered and applied in many parts of IT infrastructure, not just the network or the data center. Additionally, SDN will help remove manual configuration of hardware to orchestrate IT operations

Supporting Quotes

“We see government and service providers both applying SDN to their network operations and continuous monitoring initiatives.  Many agencies are working to automate and centralize network configuration and monitoring using tools like Chef and Puppet, enabling automated control-plane monitoring and configuration push and rollback.  At Accelerated Servers, we have been successfully applying SDN functionality to integrate continuous monitoring of network operations, security and performance.”
- Avi Freedman, CTO, Accelerated Servers

“As the research shows, government IT professionals are looking to lower costs and continue to turn to new technologies to realize efficiencies. Unfortunately, most networks lack the agility and efficiency needed to realize the full benefits of innovations like cloud. While the study shows that a significant number of federal IT professionals see how SDN will help improve business agility and efficiencies needed by agencies, the survey also points to an important knowledge gap of SDN among federal IT professionals. There is a clear need to develop a defined roadmap with an eye toward future-proofing government IT.”
- Mark Belk, chief architect for national government, Juniper Networks

Additional Resources:
·         Press release: Juniper Networks Introduces Its Vision, Strategy & Licensing Model for Software Defined Networks
·         Video: Juniper Networks Unveils its SDN Strategy
·         Blog by Juniper Networks' Bob Muglia: Decoding Software-Defined Networking
·         Juniper Networks SDN homepage
·         Federally-focused SDN blog library
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About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks www.juniper.net