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F5 Networks Selects Westcon Group as First Global Distributor

F5 expands current partnership to enhance worldwide channel sales opportunities

New York, July 24, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today named Westcon Group the company’s first global distribution partner. With this expanded relationship, Westcon and F5 Networks now offer global programs for traditional partners, managed service providers (MSPs), and global cloud providers. The partnership provides for deeper security engagement and competency, enabling the F5 channel to better address worldwide market opportunities.

The announcement was made during F5’s Agility Summit 2012, an invitation-only customer and partner conference, held July 23–25 in New York.

“Organizations are increasingly global in nature, and our channel partners need specialized worldwide programs to satisfy new requirements,” said Dean Darwin, SVP, Worldwide Partner Organization at F5. “Cloud and service providers need a standardized approach to efficiently support all types of users and business efforts around the world. Through the partnership, we’ll be able to leverage Westcon’s network of globally focused resources and better serve the security and IT needs of customers worldwide.”

Westcon is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center, and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. Westcon has previously served as an F5 distributor in the Americas, EMEA, and in parts of Asia Pacific. Today’s announcement signals the expansion of Westcon’s authority to distribute F5 solutions in many new countries and deepens the companies’ strategic relationship. The agreement ensures a comprehensive sales engagement process for F5’s channel and better addresses global needs with new programs and streamlined procedures.

Through this partnership with Westcon, F5 can more effectively:

• Streamline and unify distribution services to address global initiatives
• Develop worldwide programs to better address partner and customer priorities
• Leverage channel sales distribution investments and resources across the globe

By extending the partnership, F5 now benefits from Westcon’s worldwide reach, its proven ability to coordinate efforts between global customers and resellers, and Weston’s expertise with leading cloud and service providers that support multinational companies. In addition, F5 gains enhanced visibility into business and market opportunities for organizations operating on a global scale.

“Westcon prides itself on working with premier technology vendors to jointly address the most challenging IT priorities of our diverse partner base,” said Bill Corbin, Executive Vice President of Global Vendor Relationships, Westcon Group. “In particular, organizations look to us to ensure their network and connectivity solutions are reliable, secure, and supported every step of the way. We’re excited to share this broad-based, global expertise with F5, helping customers get the most out of F5’s powerful security and Application Delivery Networking solutions.”

F5 2012 Agility Awards

In addition to today’s announcement of its global distribution partnership with Westcon, F5 also announced the recipients of the company’s 2012 Agility Awards, recognizing excellence and innovation in F5’s customer and partnership community.

About Westcon Group, Inc.

Westcon Group, Inc. is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. Westcon’s teams create unique programs and provide exceptional support to accelerate the business of its global partners. Strong relationships at every level of the Westcon Group organization enable partners to receive support tailored to their needs. From global logistics and flexible customized financing solutions to pre-sales, technical and engineering assistance, the company works with partners to respond with agility and speed to changing market conditions so they can achieve the fastest time to revenue. Westcon Group’s portfolio of market-leading vendors includes: Cisco, Brocade, Fujitsu, Polycom, Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, Avaya, Check Point, and Blue Coat. For more information, please visit:www.westcongroup.com.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5 and the F5 logo are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Networks DevCentral Gains Cloud Agility and Scale with Enterprise-Grade Control in the Bluelock Cloud

Collaboration with industry leader Bluelock demonstrates how F5’s application delivery virtual appliances enable cloud advantages with an enterprise frame of mind

SEATTLE, June 13, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it has migrated its global online community, DevCentral^TM, to a cloud environment. DevCentral runs F5^® cloud-enabled ADN solutions in multiple Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, while adhering to IT best practices for scale, control, and security.

Additional Resources

• F5 ADN Cloud Computing Solution
• Bluelock Video – Case Study
• ADN Platform Management – White Paper
• SlideShare Presentation

Until now, DevCentral was deployed in a one-size-fits-all enterprise IT environment that also supported financial applications and key business functions. To support the team’s business plans to grow and strengthen its global community, DevCentral needed to accelerate and optimize its DevOps initiatives.

“DevCentral has grown into a flourishing, global community of IT professionals who leverage F5 products to improve business agility. Rapid delivery of features and capabilities that make it easy for members to connect with peers, engage in discussion, and share best practices has always been a top priority,” said Jeff Browning, Sr. Director, Product Management at F5 Networks. “With our move to Bluelock’s public cloud environment, we’ve increased DevOps agility, achieving faster, more frequent application updates that optimize development cycles. This results in accelerated delivery of new features to satisfy our community, with the scale afforded by a more dynamic cloud environment—gracefully supporting our growth plan for years to come.”

DevCentral’s deployment of virtual cloud appliances mirrors traditional data center design, including best practices for routing and replication. Collaboration with Bluelock, where advanced cloud design comes together with proven F5 ADN capabilities, provides DevCentral with the following benefits:

• Simplified lifecycle migration from development, to test, to production, resulting in more frequent, lower risk upgrades

• Reduced complexity without relying on traditional replication schemes required for disaster recovery and high availability

• Cost-effective operational consistency among all deployments to provide predictable configuration and testing

• Clear visibility across infrastructure, platforms, and applications to provide edge-to-core troubleshooting, performance analysis, and more

• Closer workgroup collaboration enabling DevOps through a common set of virtual data center tools and services shared between operations and development teams

“Bluelock and F5 Networks have a long history together, helping our mutual customers achieve agility and scalability in the cloud, and we can now take that to the developer community,” said Pat O’Day, Chief Technology Officer at Bluelock. “We’re pleased to see our partnership and Bluelock’s leading Virtual Datacenter solution directly helping the DevCentral team innovate and collaborate more easily while remaining secure—all in the spirit of building an even better community.”

“F5's DevCentral has been the gold standard for vendor-driven communities to date,” said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “DevCentral allows IT departments to leverage the power of the community to help accelerate and customize data center operations and application support. By migrating DevCentral to a Bluelock cloud environment, F5 has further increased the value of DevCentral by ensuring customers are always working with the latest versions of F5's products and have access to all of F5’s capabilities. This will result in customers being able to leverage F5's technology faster, to a broader set of applications with minimal risk.”

Achieving Cloud Benefits with Assurance of Enterprise Best Practices

Many enterprises have reservations about migrating to the cloud due to security and performance concerns. Regardless of deployment location, websites face heightened risks in today’s multi-vector threat scenarios. Social communities, built on user engagement and interaction, expose even greater threat vectors. The lack of acceleration and optimization services in the cloud can inhibit the deployment of solutions to improve application performance. To address these security and performance risks, DevCentral has employed a multi-faceted security strategy that utilizes F5’s BIG-IP^®Local Traffic Manager^TM with data center firewall services, BIG-IP Application Security Manager^TM, and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager^TM along with the BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager^TM, BIG-IP WebAccelerator^TM, and BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager^TM solutions. Together, these represent an industry first: a true cloud-enabled ADN that delivers the agile benefits of the cloud while leveraging established best practices from the enterprise.

Today, F5 also announced a cloud licensing program that enables enterprise-class ADN solutions in the cloud. Providing a unified architecture for both private and public clouds with virtual editions of its award-winning BIG-IP platform, F5 now offers its advanced ADN solutions in a utility billing model.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, Access Policy Manager, Application Security Manager, BIG-IP, DevCentral, Global Traffic Manager, Local Traffic Manager, WAN Optimization Manager, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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JUNIPER NETWORKS RELEASES NEW MYKONOS SECURITY SOFTWARE TO STOP WEB ATTACKS

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JUNIPER NETWORKS RELEASES NEW MYKONOS SECURITY SOFTWARE TO STOP WEB ATTACKS

New Software Offers Improved Protection, Simplified Management and Increased Scalability

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 30, 2012) - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, announced major platform enhancements to its Mykonos Web Security Software, which uses ground-breaking Intrusion Deception™ Technology to defend against web-based threats in real-time. The new release of Mykonos Web Security provides 30 new features and enhancements that strengthen protection against a wider range of attackers and hacking techniques, simplify configuration for security administrators, and boost scalability to help ensure holistic protection as traffic volumes increase.

View a demo of how Mykonos Web Security works here.

Web applications and websites are under constant attack and are the most popular targets for hackers because they remain the largest unprotected threat in corporate networks. A Ponemon Institute survey found 73 percent of organizations have been hacked at least once in the past two years through insecure web applications.

The Mykonos Web Security solution uses deception to create detection points -- or tar traps -- to identify malicious actors in real-time as they attempt to hack their desired target. Once attackers are identified, Mykonos Web Security prevents them from compromising critical information, wastes their time by presenting false vulnerabilities and provides valuable intelligence to thwart future attacks. This active, intelligence-based approach uses Mykonos' Intrusion Deception™ System -- the only system that truly neutralizes threats as they occur -- giving companies the upper hand by using attackers' actions against them without relying on signatures or passively restricting traffic. With Mykonos Web Security, Juniper Networks is transforming the security industry and changing the ROI of hacking by making it costly, time consuming and tedious for attackers to chase after false data.

Release Highlights

• Enhanced security protections: Mykonos Web Security now detects a wider range of attackers and hacking techniques, protecting against more threats, as well as provides new countermeasures, including:
  • Preventing brute-force authentication attacks that rapidly guess combinations of usernames and passwords to gain access to systems. Mykonos Web Security prevents the attacker from using any compromised credentials even if an attacker happens to 'guess' the correct password.
  • Defending against directory traversal attempts that are used to map websites to gain additional information on how to attack them.
  • Integrating third-party software vulnerability protection into Mykonos Web Security, which helps prevent against known software vulnerabilities typically targeted by automated attack scripts. Mykonos Web Security now integrates a large library of known third-party attack data into its tracking, profiling, and response systems.
• User-friendly and intuitive interface: A simplified interface unifies the security console and configuration, making it easier for customers to manage systems, as well as provides a new setup wizard tool to quickly deploy without assistance from Juniper Networks.
• Greater performance clustering: Mykonos Web Security now supports throughput greater than 1Gb/second by enabling customers to add multiple slaves to a clustering model. In effect, this allows for Mykonos Web Security to protect higher-volume web properties.
• Comprehensive approach to security: The new version of Mykonos Web Security provides a significant new layer of defense against web attacks and builds on the successful SRX and vGW platforms as a key component of Juniper's strategy to deliver a comprehensive and automated approach for data center security.

Supporting Quotes

"Web-based threats have become a major concern and companies require a proactive solution with real-time prevention to augment traditional-network security defenses. Mykonos is the first company to detect hackers during the reconnaissance phase of an attack. We can track, profile and, most importantly, respond to an attacker before the damage is done."

-David Koretz, vice president and general manager, Mykonos Software, a Juniper Networks Company

"Juniper's Mykonos Web Security solution addresses the critical security issues that enterprises face today. At a time when buyers are questioning whether their investment in legacy solutions is providing adequate protection from today's threats, Juniper is providing an innovative solution."

-Jeff Wilson, principal analyst, Infonetics Research

Additional Resources:

• Mykonos Web Security Demo Videos: http://youtu.be/zyxvyGgHULg
• Mykonos Web Security New Features Demo Video: http://youtu.be/TUlm4ljXDCg
• Technical Specs of Mykonos Web Security:http://www.mykonossoftware.com/technical-specs-ambler.php
• Mykonos Web Security Data Sheethttp://www.mykonossoftware.com/pdf/datasheet.pdf
• Web Application Security Statistics:http://www.mykonossoftware.com/statistics.php
• Juniper Security Intelligence Center: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/security/
• Juniper.Net Community: www.juniper.net/community
• Juniper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Junipernetworks
• Juniper on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JuniperNetworks

About Juniper NetworksJuniper 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 is a registered trademark of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks logo is a trademark of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

JUNIPER NETWORKS ANNOUNCES DATE AND WEBCAST INFORMATION FOR ITS 2012 FINANCIAL ANALYST MEETING

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JUNIPER NETWORKS ANNOUNCES DATE AND WEBCAST INFORMATION FOR ITS 2012 FINANCIAL ANALYST MEETING

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 29, 2012) - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced the company will host a Financial Analyst Meeting on June 12, 2012 in Sunnyvale, Calif., beginning at 1:00 p.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), which will be preceded by a Technology Chalk Talk at 11:00 a.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). Registration and webcast information are posted on the Investor Relations page on the Juniper Networks website athttp://investor.juniper.net.

The Financial Analyst Meeting and Technology Chalk Talk will be available live via webcast at their referenced start times. Please visit the following link to view a webcast:http://investor.juniper.net.

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.

Brocade and NEC Expand Efforts to Drive Market Adoption of Software-Defined Networking

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Brocade and NEC Expand Efforts to Drive Market Adoption of Software-Defined Networking

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Collaboration Enables Customers to Build Highly Scalable, Programmable Networks and Foster Rapid Innovation and Deployment of Services

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/22/2012 -- Brocade^® (NASDAQ: BRCD) and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced an expanded collaboration to bring to market combined solutions around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow switching, including network virtualization.

Brocade and NEC will jointly market solutions for network virtualization, large-scale data center infrastructure management, traffic engineering and Wide Area Network (WAN) flow management, with an open standards-based approach. Brocade and NEC will market these high-value solutions built around Brocade's OpenFlow-enabled products and NEC's award-winning Programmable Flow Controller.

As part of the collaboration, Brocade and NEC are committing to ongoing certification, interoperability and solution validation testing. To this end, Brocade and NEC will establish joint solution labs in key regional offices to test and demonstrate their solutions. The current Brocade and NEC OpenFlow-enabled products successfully completed interoperability testing in 2011.

Brocade and NEC are collaborating on technology and implementation alignment, including OpenFlow standards, tunnel technology and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help ensure ongoing innovation and seamless deployment by joint customers.

Brocade and NEC recently demonstrated their technology and joint solutions at the Open Networking Summit 2012 in Santa Clara, California and Interop, Las Vegas. Additional demonstrations are planned for upcoming industry events, including Interop Tokyo (June 13 to 15, 2012).

"The combined NEC and Brocade SDN solutions will give customers the ability to design, deploy, monitor and manage secure, multi-tenant networks from a single point of control," said Mitsuhiro Murooka, vice president, NEC Enterprise Technologies IT. "Brocade and NEC customers will be able to achieve greater service agility, granular traffic control and significant productivity gains by adopting a software-defined network architecture."

"Through standards-based solutions like OpenFlow, the SDN and underlying network can be coupled to optimize service performance and cost. A key objective for Verizon is to virtualize the network and converge the orchestration of the virtualized networks with VMs in the data centers to create a true cloud," said Stuart Elby, vice president, network architecture and technology, Verizon, and founding board member of Open Networking Foundation (ONF).

"Stronger definition of network behavior in software is a growing trend, and open interfaces are going to lead to faster innovation," said Dan Pitt, executive director, Open Networking Foundation. "We are excited to be joined by leading global companies to help develop and implement advanced networking capabilities for today's operators and enterprises."

"SDN enables network operators to rapidly deploy innovative services and access powerful analytics through programmatic control, unlocking the intelligence of their data center and wide area networks," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager, service provider business, Brocade. "Our collaboration with NEC ensures we deliver high-value solutions that can be seamlessly deployed in our customers' networks to realize the benefit of SDN."

Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow Solutions
 In June 2010, Brocade was one of the first major networking vendors to publicly endorse OpenFlow, which is a major component of a new approach to networking called SDN. SDN involves several components, including standards-basedOpenFlow, which delivers to service providers and network operators granular control of their network infrastructures. Brocade delivers OpenFlow capabilities across its high-performance switching and routing products, enabling flow control up to 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) speeds. With its partners, Brocade builds compelling cloud networking solutions for service providers and network operators worldwide. These solutions alleviate the burden of operational complexity for customers that are building and managing hyper-scale cloud infrastructures.

About NEC ProgrammableFlow ControllerNEC was first to market with a generally available OpenFlow network solution, called ProgrammableFlow. Version 2 of its ProgrammableFlow Controller, the PF6800, won the Grand Prize and the Management, Monitoring and Testing category at Best of Interop 2012. The ProgrammableFlow software separates out the physical network from the control layer, providing customers new levels of flexibility and control to quickly deploy network services and gain the benefits of Software-Defined Networking. The PF6800, which leverages OpenFlow standardized technology, used in combination with the Brocade OpenFlow-enabled product family, eliminates most of the configuration management in traditional networks and transforming network monitoring and management by integrating real time network monitoring with remediation.

About OpenFlow and the ONFThe OpenFlow protocol is being standardized by Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Founded in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Yahoo!, ONF is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to rethink networking and quickly and collaboratively bring to market standards and solutions. ONF will accelerate the delivery and use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standards and foster a vibrant market of products, services, applications, customers and users; it includes 70 member companies (including Brocade and NEC).

About NEC Corporation of AmericaHeadquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, network and communications products and solutions for service carriers, Fortune 1000 and SMB businesses across multiple vertical industries, including Healthcare, Government, Education and Hospitality. NEC Corporation of America delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including unified communications, wireless, voice and data, managed services, server and storage infrastructure, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biometric security. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in 44 countries and more than $37.5 billion in revenues. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.

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Brocade Delivers 100 Gigabit Ethernet Solutions for Software-Defined Networks

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Brocade Delivers 100 Gigabit Ethernet Solutions for Software-Defined Networks

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Delivers First Phase of Roadmap With OpenFlow Support Across the Brocade NetIron Router Family

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/22/2012 -- Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today outlined its strategy for software-defined networking (SDN), a technology gaining broad support across network operators and enterprises on a global basis. In support of its SDN strategy, Brocade also announced that it has integrated hardware based OpenFlow support in theBrocade® MLX® Series of routers and related Brocade NetIron^® platforms, enabling customers to deploy SDN at wire-speed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance.

OpenFlow is a protocol standardized by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and a key component of SDN. OpenFlow enables programmatic control of network infrastructures and rapid network service development and deployment.

The strategy Brocade introduced today will guide the company's SDN investments, marketing and partner relationships to deliver highly flexible, end-to-end networking solutions. The focus of these solutions will be on network virtualization, automation and simplification in large-scale data centers, along with traffic engineering and flow management on high-speed networks. The Brocade strategy provides a clear upgrade path to SDN, leveraging existing network investments and enabling network operators to start now with a low level of risk as they begin to provide services in a highly predictable, non-disruptive manner.

The Brocade SDN strategy includes the following key technologies and capabilities:

• Resilient and auto-forming Ethernet fabrics will enhance SDN. Brocade VCS^® Fabric technology is optimized for virtualized applications through its active-active topology and virtual machine (VM)-aware intelligence that enables seamless VM mobility without manual configuration, including the network policies associated with each VM. In addition, multiple switches that make up the fabric can be managed and programmed as one logical switch, dramatically reducing operational complexity and improving SDN controller scalability. Finally, VCS fabrics, with a self-forming and self-healing architecture, are highly resilient to help increase availability.
  
• Network virtualization via overlay technologies will offer flexibility to networks, enabling on-demand infrastructure in highly scalable multi-tenancy environments. Brocade products have a tunnel technology-agnostic design that supports overlay technologies such as Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), STT, and VXLAN as well as emerging standards.
  
• Brocade will be the industry's first network vendor to deliver OpenFlow in hybrid mode. With Brocade Hybrid Mode, customers can simultaneously deploy traditional Layer 2/3 forwarding with OpenFlow. This unique capability enables network operators to integrate OpenFlow into existing networks, giving them the programmatic control offered by SDN for specific flows while the remaining traffic is handled as before. The Brocade hardware support for OpenFlow enables customers to apply these capabilities at line rate in 10 GbE and 100 GbE networks.
  
• With programmatic control of network infrastructure through partnerships with a broad set of OpenFlow controller vendors, Brocade enables service innovation via open APIs. Specifically, Brocade is delivering industry-standard OpenFlow for Layer 2/3 forwarding and the Brocade OpenScript™ engine for Layer 4/7 switching to unlock the network to increase service velocity for highly customized services.
  
• Brocade is providing a single common cloud management and orchestration interface through northbound standards-based plug-ins and standards-based RESTful interfaces. The plug-ins to cloud management frameworks -- including Cloudstack, Microsoft System Center, OpenStack, and VMware vCenter/vCloud™ Director -- provide comprehensive orchestration capabilities for cloud service delivery and automated operations.
  

In support of this strategy, Brocade is delivering an SDN-ready product family that enables customers to build a network infrastructure today that will serve as the foundation for their SDN architecture in the future. These products include the Brocade VDX^® family of data center switches, Brocade ADX^® Series application delivery switches, Brocade MLX Series of 100 GbE routers, Brocade NetIron CER Series routers and Brocade NetIron CES Series switches.

Brocade is also building an ecosystem of partners for SDN through strategic investments, solution designs and interoperability testing. Brocade recently unveiled an OpenFlow lab in Japan designed to demonstrate Brocade and partner technologies to aid in the development of tested and validated solutions. Brocade is also a member of the Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE), which seeks to advance development, increase knowledge, and encourage adoption of OpenFlow and other standards-based SDN technologies. Brocade has also participated in a number of industry multi-vendor demonstrations with NEC, including at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) in Santa Clara, CA in April 2012, and Interop Las Vegas in May 2012.

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"Software-defined networking is a networking paradigm to transition wide-area data networking from a pure transport business to a model that allows providers to optimize traffic flows based on a centralized, customizable control plane by utilizing technologies such as OpenFlow. This will enable service providers to offer cloud applications with on-demand end-to-end SLAs and innovative service offerings," said Nathan Raciborski, co-founder and CTO, Limelight Networks. "We are working closely with Brocade and other SDN technology leaders to innovate and deliver rich cloud based content services to our customers."

"As we look to build our network of the future to meet the challenges of Big Data science, we see SDN as a critical component of that. SDN creates a platform that can be uniquely and dynamically customized based on our specific needs," said Matthew Davy, chief network architect, Indiana University. "We chose the Brocade MLX because of its support for OpenFlow at speeds up to 100 Gigabit. We will be able to programmatically control the network without sacrificing performance, scalability or reliability."

"As Microsoft's cloud-optimized operating system and management solution, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 enable customers to rapidly deploy workloads to the private, public, and hybrid cloud," said Ross Ortega, principal program manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft. "Hyper-V Network Virtualization allows customers to orchestrate and automate multi-tenant clouds with high levels of reliability, scalability, and agility. Brocade's support for the NVGRE protocol will help optimize network virtualization across large datacenter environments."

"SDN will transform networking infrastructure into a platform for innovation, enabling customers to deliver new services and applications faster and at greater scale," said Ken Cheng, vice president of the service provider business at Brocade. "Brocade is already a pioneer in defining SDN standards and, by executing on our SDN strategy we believe we will be going further than any networking vendor by broadly embedding SDN technologies into our solutions."

Additional Assets:

Video: Matthew Davy, chief network architect, Indiana University, discusses his mission to create service-based platforms for innovation. www.brocade.com/launch/sdn/openflow.html

Video: Daniel Williams, director product marketing, Brocade interviews Dan Pitt, executive director Open Networking Foundation, about the Foundation, software defined networking and OpenFlow.www.brocade.com/launch/sdn/openflow.html

Video: Ken Cheng, vice president service provider products, Brocade, outlines the company's strategy for software defined networking and OpenFlow. www.brocade.com/launch/sdn/index.html

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JUNIPER NETWORKS MORE THAN DOUBLES THE CAPACITY OF THE NETWORK CORE WITH NEW UPGRADES FOR T SERIES ROUTERS

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JUNIPER NETWORKS MORE THAN DOUBLES THE CAPACITY OF THE NETWORK CORE WITH NEW UPGRADES FOR T SERIES ROUTERS

Next Generation Multi-Chassis Support for T4000 and T1600 Routers Delivers Unmatched System Scalability and Superior Investment Protection

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 22, 2012) - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced a new capacity upgrade to the TXP multi-chassis routing system for all existing Juniper Networks® T4000 and T1600 core routers. Multi-chassis systems continue to be a critical technology for service providers to scale their network infrastructure while ensuring operational continuity and optimizing capital expenditures. The new TXP system more than doubles the capacity of the previous generation and delivers customers greater scalability and investment protection by extending the lifespan and performance of their network infrastructures built on T Series Core Routers. This capacity upgrade is done in-service and provides service providers with the financial and operational flexibility to expand network capacity where it is needed to support the growing bandwidth requirements driven by immense online video, social media and ever expanding cloud services and content.

News Highlights

• The rising adoption of always connected devices and rich media applications worldwide places tremendous demands on service provider infrastructures, causing network and equipment scaling requirements to grow rapidly. To address these challenges in an economical and operationally sustainable manner, service, content and application providers alike require solutions with unprecedented financial and operational flexibility and scale. 
  
• Juniper Networks T Series IP/MPLS multi-service core routers provide the leading features and multi-terabit scale that service providers need to handle massive growth in core bandwidth requirements. The field-proven in-service upgradability provides customers guaranteed access to future T Series platform innovation, resulting in unmatched investment protection.
  
• With the introduction of the T Series in 2002, Juniper pioneered the "modern" IP core router and redefined the market with its innovative architecture that has allowed our customers to flexibly and economically grow their network by taking advantage of the unique in-service upgrade capabilities that were engineered into the platform from the start. Since the first shipment in 2002, well over 7,000 T Series routers have been deployed in the top 200 networks worldwide allowing billions of users to enjoy the services offered by their service provider every day.
  
• The TXP multi-chassis routing system supports the following key functionality: 
  
  • Up to 4X T4000 and 8X T1600 system capacity 
  • Up to 22 Terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity 
  • Future capacity expandable up to 64 Tbps 
  • Simplified pay-as-you grow installation and expansion with standards-based cabling and pluggable optics
    
• Juniper's scalable and flexible multi-service core architecture with carrier-grade reliability and guaranteed high-performance can efficiently deliver a wide breadth of revenue-generating services while minimizing both capital and operational expenditures, ensuring customers can achieve: 
  
  • Continued scaling of existing multi-service core with a proven platform that is future ready 
  • Investment protection for current T Series customer base 
  • Operational simplicity with the flexibility to grow seamlessly 
  • In-service upgrade to provide continuity and no user interruption

The upgrade for the TXP multi-chassis system will be available for shipment in the fourth quarter 2012.

Supporting Quotes

China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC)"Juniper has been an excellent partner in helping us as we grow and evolve our network to meet increasing customer demands and the expanded capabilities of the TXP Multi-chassis system are a promising way to help us continue to expand our existing infrastructure." 
-- Jianming Zhou while visiting Juniper in his capacity as General Manager of the Technical Department at China Mobile Communications Company (CMCC).

Juniper Networks"Service providers are dependent on the infrastructure they build to deliver profitable services, but they must also be nimble and flexible to scale these services. Investment protection, operational continuity and future-ready scalability are critical components in infrastructure purchasing decisions. Expanding the capabilities of Juniper's TXP multi-chassis system, which is deployed in numerous networks worldwide, is clearly aligned with this strategy."
-- Daniel Hua, senior vice president and general manager, Core Business Unit, Juniper Networks

Infonetics Research"In order to scale their networks today, large service providers use the multi-chassis capabilities of their core routers, as scaling requirements continue to grow. Juniper's expansion of the TXP multi-chassis system will help operators meet their growth challenges due to the TXP's flexible scaling, operational continuity, and investment protection -- three components of any service provider's expansion strategy. This latest generation TXP features the innovation in the multi-chassis interconnect of off-the-shelf pluggable optics and industry-standard cabling to nicely reduce the cost and operational complexity of deploying and managing multi-chassis systems."
-- Michael Howard, principal analyst, Infonetics Research

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