SUNNYVALE, CA, Feb 22, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ethernet Switching Alex Gray is scheduled to discuss recent innovations in data center network architectures that deliver a quantum leap in performance, scale and simplification during a keynote address to the Ethernet Technology Summit on Thursday, February 24 at 11:00 am PST in Santa Clara, Calif. In addition, Juniper will participate in panel discussions during the Summit that will highlight the impact of the 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) standard as well as the optimal deployment of Ethernet technology in data centers and cloud computing environments.

Wednesday, February 23, 8:30 am PST: Luc Ceuppens, vice president for product marketing, Juniper Networks, will participate in a panel discussion chaired by Michael Howard of Infonetics that will review implementation of the 100 GbE standard and the next steps network architects should be considering as they plan for next-generation network deployments.

Wednesday, February 23, 8:30 am PST: Dhritiman Dasgupta, director of product marketing, Juniper Networks, will participate in a panel discussion chaired by Seamus Crehan of Crehan Research on rethinking data center architectures in light of the new flexibility, scalability and throughput characteristics that are now essential to handle virtualization, cloud computing and mobile networks.

Thursday, February 24, 8:30 am PST: Chandra Pandey, director of solutions engineering, Juniper Networks, will participate in a panel discussion chaired by Anil Vasudeva of IMEX Research on optimizing data center to cloud (D2C) architectures with Carrier Ethernet.

The Ethernet Technology Summit is the only Silicon Valley conference and exhibition featuring the latest advances in Ethernet networking, including the new specifications for 40/100 GbE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Energy-Efficient Ethernet. The three day conference opens on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at the Marriott Hotel, 2700 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, Calif. For additional information on the Summit and sessions, please visit the Ethernet Technology Summit website at http://www.ethernetsummit.com/.

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