Proven Wired and Wireless Products Will Enable True Carrier-Grade
Networking
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Juniper
Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, and Ruckus
Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:RKUS), a global supplier of advanced wireless
systems, today announced a new technology alliance to deliver open,
wired and wireless networking solutions for enterprise, government and
education customer segments. The companies will work to deliver a
unified wired and wireless solution, as well as collaborate on global
go-to-market opportunities to deliver proven, carrier-class network
performance, resiliency and scale to mid-size and large enterprise
customers.
Gartner predicts that end-user spending on enterprise wireless LAN
(WLAN) equipment will grow from $5.3 billion in 2015 to $7.8 billion
worldwide in 2019. Ruckus and Juniper Networks believe this increase is
being driven largely by an influx of new WiFi-enabled devices and cloud
applications being brought into the workplace by employees. This puts
new levels of performance and bandwidth pressure on the campus network
infrastructure, from WiFi access points to the network core, creating
the need for a flexible, secure and integrated wired and wireless
network solution.
News Highlights
With a strong heritage of delivering open, standards-based and
carrier-grade solutions, Juniper Networks and Ruckus are well equipped
to meet and exceed the unique demands on the enterprise campus network.
The goal of this technology alliance is to deliver network flexibility
and reduced total cost of ownership for its joint customers.
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Best-in-Class Performance and Scale: Combining Juniper
Networks® EX Series Ethernet Switches with Ruckus
ZoneFlex access points and SmartZone
(SZ) Wi-Fi management platform will deliver carrier-class
networking solutions to various enterprise environments and enable
easy network expansion as business demands grow.
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Simplified, Automated and Secure Network Management: Both
Ruckus Wireless 3+1 SmartZone clustering and Juniper’s Virtual Chassis
technology reduce the number of logical wired and wireless devices for
management and automation, as well as ensure maximum availability.
Juniper Networks Junos®
Space Network Director provides visibility and management of the
switching infrastructure to easily manage growing networks and new
service categories. Comprehensive security will be achieved with
802.1x network access control on both Ruckus Smart WiFi and Juniper
Networks EX Series Switches. Ruckus will deliver simple, secure BYOD
provisioning and onboarding, while the Juniper
Networks SRX Series Services Gateways will deliver next-generation
firewall capabilities.
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Open-Standards Based Solutions: Building on Juniper’s Open
Converged Framework, the planned alliance is based on open,
standards-based hardware and software products from both Juniper
Networks and Ruckus, ensuring investment protection for customers as
their wired and wireless network demands evolve.
Supporting Quotes
“As a long time Cisco wired and wireless shop, we really needed a
‘best-in-class approach' in order to offer students, staff and guests an
exceptional wired and wireless experience across our entire district.
Standardizing on Juniper Networks switches and firewalls and Ruckus
Smart WiFi has allowed us to not only realize a lower total cost of
ownership, more importantly, it also has empowered us to deliver more
pervasive performance and reliable network services with a unified wired
and wireless infrastructure that scales to meet virtually any wired or
wireless demand we can anticipate.”
- Mike Leseberg, director of
IT for Richland School District, Richland, WA
“Our decision to deploy best-in-class Juniper switches to complement our
new Ruckus Wireless Smart WiFi network has been driven by the insatiable
demand for reliable, high-speed wireless connectivity that requires a
wired infrastructure ideally suited to support it. With a Juniper
switching infrastructure supporting our new Wave 2-based 802.11ac Ruckus
Smart WiFi network, we will be able to more cost-effectively scale our
network service performance to address user demands and client
technology innovations that are becoming increasingly difficult to
anticipate. For us, the collaboration between Juniper and Ruckus is a
win-win solution for our students and staff.”
- Aaron Heath,
lead network/server specialist at Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, MO
“Enterprises around the world are being challenged to accommodate the
use of more and more mobile devices and applications, while still
maintaining a secure, high-performance operating environment. Juniper
Networks provides the wired infrastructure critical for serving as the
backbone for the Smart WiFi networks we deliver. This ‘no-compromise’
partnership offers the value and ROI that businesses are looking for,
with the performance, flexibility and scalability they demand.”
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Dan Rabinovitsj, chief operating officer, Ruckus Wireless
“The network infrastructure of our enterprise customers is experiencing
incredible performance pressure due to the influx of mobile devices in
the workplace connecting to mission-critical apps and to content in the
cloud. Building on Juniper’s Open Converged Framework, teaming with
Ruckus ensures carrier-grade levels of scale and performance through our
interoperable wired and wireless solutions to solve the WiFi capacity
and coverage challenges that our enterprise customers face.”
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Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper
Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks
Additional Resources
Source: Gartner, Inc. “Forecast: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market
Segment, Worldwide, 2012-2019, 1Q15 Update”, March 2015
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) delivers innovation across routing,
switching and security. Juniper Networks’ innovations in
software, silicon and systems 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.
About Ruckus Wireless
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:RKUS) is a
global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding
mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range
of indoor and outdoor “Smart WiFi” products to mobile carriers,
broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has
approximately 52,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology
addresses WiFi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the
ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to
accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video,
and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that
extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference,
providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive
multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 WiFi. For more
information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.
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Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, SmartZone, and ZoneFlex are trademarks of
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a
number of assumptions, uncertainties and risks including, among other
things, statements concerning the planned alliance between Juniper
Networks and Ruckus, the size of the market opportunity, the integration
of Juniper Networks’ and Ruckus’ products and the performance and
benefits of those products to customers. Actual results or events could
differ materially from those anticipated in those forward-looking
statements as a result of certain factors, including delays in scheduled
product availability, incompatibility of technologies, the failure of
Juniper Networks and Ruckus to accurately predict emerging technological
trends, and other factors listed in the most recent report on Form 10-K
and Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for each
of Juniper Networks and Ruckus. All statements made in this press
release are made only as of the date of this press release. Juniper
Networks and Ruckus undertake no obligation to update the information in
this release in the event facts or circumstances subsequently change
after the date of this press release. Any future product, feature,
enhancement or related specification that may be referenced in this
press release are for information purposes only, are subject to change
at any time without notice and are not commitments to deliver any future
product, feature, enhancement or related specification. The information
contained in this press release is intended to outline Juniper Networks’
and Ruckus’ general product direction and should not be relied on in
making a purchasing decision.
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