Stories about: NetScreen Technologies

Juniper is reportedly looking to buy either Aruba Networks or Meru Networks to strengthen its presence in enterprise networks through a formidable wireless LAN offering.

A former Cisco executive this week pulled the curtains back on a start-up company developing a real-time IP video processing and collaboration platform.

In 2007,we designated more than 90 start-ups as worth watching. After a second look, we picked these 10 as offering what matters most in the enterprise -- agility, seamless integration and pervasive connectivity.

The subplot of the routing vs. switching debate was the fierce competition between Cisco and enterprise rivals Bay, 3Com and Cabletron. Over time, Cisco also deepened its focus on the service provider market, where start-up Juniper Networks, with the financial backing of several Cisco rivals in data and telecommunications, was becoming a formidable router alternative.

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New companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security.

Juniper Networks this week named Mark Bauhaus executive vice president and general manager of its enterprise-focused Service Layer Technology group.

A California startup backed by US$4 million in venture funding and a team of former Juniper Networks executives says that it has developed a way to make networking products and applications more secure. Mu Security says it will soon begin selling a new vulnerability assessment product that lets technology vendors and enterprise developers test their products with known hacker techniques, allowing them to fix bugs before products are put into use.

Juniper Networks has shuffled upper management and filled a six-month void in its top marketing position, part of what the company claims is a "structured succession plan."

Juniper Networks has extended its lineup of hardware platforms for SSL VPNs (Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networks), rolling out new devices for small, medium-sized and large enterprises.

One year has passed since Juniper closed the books on its acquisition of VPN and intrusion-prevention vendor NetScreen Technologies, but the company has yet to parlay its year-old enterprise security presence into a broader corporate business.