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{{Short description|American multinational technology company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Juniper Networks, Inc.
| logo = [[File:Juniper Networks logo.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| image = Juniper Networks Headquarters Sunnyvale.jpg
| image_caption = Juniper's headquarters in Sunnyvale
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{Unbulleted list|{{NYSE|JNPR}}|[[S&P 500]] component}}
| industry = [[Networking hardware]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1996|02|06}}
| founder = [[Pradeep Sindhu]]
| hq_location_city = [[Sunnyvale, California]]
| hq_location_country = United States
| key_people = {{Plainlist|
* [[Scott Kriens]] ([[chairman]])
* Pradeep Sindhu (vice chairman)
* Rami Rahim ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
}}
| revenue = {{decrease}} {{US$|5.07&nbsp;billion|link=yes}} (2024)
| operating_income = {{decrease}} {{US$|292&nbsp;million}} (2024)
| net_income = {{decrease}} {{US$|288&nbsp;million}} (2024)
| assets = {{increase}} {{US$|10.0&nbsp;billion}} (2024)
| equity = {{increase}} {{US$|4.78&nbsp;billion}} (2024)
| num_employees = 11,271 (2024)
| website = {{URL|juniper.net}}
| footnotes = <ref name=Annual10K2024>{{cite web|title= Juniper Networks, Inc. 2024 Annual Report (Form 10-K) |url= https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1043604/000104360425000025/jnpr-20241231.htm |date=February 24, 2025 |publisher=[[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]}}</ref>
}}

'''Juniper Networks, Inc.''' is an American [[multinational corporation]] headquartered in [[Sunnyvale, California]]. The company develops and markets networking products, including [[Router (computing)|routers]], [[Network switch|switches]], [[network management]] software, [[network security]] products, and [[software-defined networking]] technology.

The company was founded in 1996 by [[Pradeep Sindhu]], with [[Scott Kriens]] as the first CEO, who remained until September 2008. Kriens has been credited with much of Juniper's early market success.<ref name="forbestopexec">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2000/12/08/1208topexecskreins.html|title=Top Tech Execs: Scott Kriens|date=December 8, 2000|work=[[Forbes]]|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref> It received several rounds of funding from [[venture capital]]ists and [[telecommunications]] companies before [[Initial public offering|going public]] in 1999. Juniper grew to $673 million in annual revenues by 2000. By 2001 it had a 37% share of the core routers market, challenging [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]]'s once-dominant market-share.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.networkworld.com/article/730972/lan-wan-cisco-vs-juniper.html|title = Cisco vs Juniper|last = Duffy|first = Jim|date = June 7, 2010|work = Network World|access-date = April 20, 2015}}</ref><ref name="aoiuhfedo"/> It grew to US$4 billion in revenues by 2004 and $4.63 billion in 2014. Juniper appointed [[Kevin Johnson (executive)|Kevin Johnson]] as CEO in 2008, [[Shaygan Kheradpir]] in 2013 and Rami Rahim in 2014.

Juniper Networks originally focused on [[core router]]s, which are used by [[internet service provider]]s (ISPs) to perform [[Whois|IP address lookups]] and direct [[internet traffic]]. Through the acquisition of [[Unisphere Networks|Unisphere]], in 2002, the company entered the market for [[Router (computing)|edge routers]], which are used by ISPs to route internet traffic to individual consumers. In 2003, Juniper entered the [[IT security]] market with its own JProtect security toolkit before [[Takeover|acquiring]] security company [[NetScreen Technologies]] the following year. In the early 2000s, Juniper entered the enterprise segment, which accounted for one-third of its revenues by 2005. Since 2014, Juniper has been focused on developing new software-defined networking products.<ref name="SWOT" /> In early 2024, Juniper agreed to be bought out by [[Hewlett Packard Enterprise]] (HPE) for approximately $14 billion.