SUNNYVALE, CA, Mar 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced its participation in the Eclipse Foundation, a leading open source community made up of millions of users focused on building an open development platform and cultivating an open source community and ecosystem of complementary products and services.

Joining the Eclipse Foundation can further extend open development capabilities to Juniper's ecosystem of software developers building applications on the company's Junos(R) software products, many of whom already use the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse developers can benefit from the opportunity to quickly create and introduce new applications using the Junos and Junos Space Software Development Kits (SDKs). Juniper is committed to building products and solutions for developers to more easily access previously unavailable data at the network level. By building solutions with Junos products, developers can now create better insight into networks as data is exposed through APIs for application development.

"In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Juniper Networks can provide its customers and partners with a richer development environment for creating applications to optimize their network assets and create new revenue opportunities while reducing cost, complexity and time," said Mike Harding, vice president of Junos Space Business Unit, Juniper Networks. "Eclipse is an elite organization and this is a great opportunity to bring faster productivity to new Junos software solutions."

The Junos Space SDK provides a RESTful, Web services-based application programming interface (API), and a rich set of tools to create, test, simulate and deploy network applications. In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Juniper Networks developers can benefit from a familiar open source environment and the Eclipse IDE. In addition, the new partnership facilitates building and extending relationships with Eclipse members to create synergy in the networking and open source space, and provide better tools and products to customers.

"Juniper Networks understands that open development platforms are critical to networking software," said Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse executive director. "We are excited to add Juniper to our growing roster of members. As a member of the Eclipse Foundation, Juniper will provide the tools and frameworks needed by the Eclipse ecosystem to build Junos-based solutions."

For more information or to download the Junos Space SDK, please visit www.juniper.net/eclipse

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).

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