Editing Juniper Networks (section)

===Software defined networking===
According to a 2014 [[SWOT analysis]] by MarketLine, in recent history Juniper has been focusing on [[software-defined networking]] (SDN).<ref name="SWOT"/> It acquired SDN company Contrail Systems in December 2012. The following month Juniper announced its SDN strategy, which included a new licensing model based on usage and new features for the Junos operating system.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper finally talks SDNs|first=Jim|last=Duffy|newspaper=Network World |date=January 15, 2013|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/668177/lan-wan-juniper-finally-talks-sdns.html}}</ref> In February 2013, Juniper released several SDN products, including the application provisioning software, Services Activation Director and the Mobile Control Gateway appliance.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper adds SDN to mobile networks|first=Jim|last=Duffy|newspaper=Network World|date=February 21, 2013|url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/2163592/lan-wan/juniper-adds-sdn-to-mobile-networks.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216105414/http://www.networkworld.com/article/2163592/lan-wan/juniper-adds-sdn-to-mobile-networks.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2016|access-date=February 16, 2015}}</ref>

In May 2013, Juniper announced an SDN controller called JunosV Contrail, using technology it acquired through Contrail Systems.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Network World|date=May 6, 2013|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/673068/lan-wan-juniper-closer-to-cisco-in-shipping-sdn-brains.html|title=Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains|access-date=December 23, 2014|first=Jim|last=Duffy}}</ref> A series of SDN products were released in February 2014, such as a network management software product, Junos Fusion, and an SDN controller called NorthStar. Northstar helps find the optimal path for data to travel through a network.<ref name="nwww"/>

Every year, since 2009, Juniper holds SDN Throwdown competition to encourage students from universities across the world to access NorthStar Controller and build a solution around it to optimize network throughput. In the 2019 competition, team led by Sumit Maheshwari (Rutgers University) took first place.<ref>{{cite news|date=Feb 26, 2019|url=https://soe.rutgers.edu/story/rutgers-team-wins-junipercomcast-sdn-throwdown-competition|title=Rutgers Team Wins Juniper Comcast SDN Throwdown Competition|access-date=March 13, 2019|archive-date=March 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329025200/https://soe.rutgers.edu/story/rutgers-team-wins-junipercomcast-sdn-throwdown-competition|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jialu Sun (Santa Clara University) led his team to a second-place finish.<ref>{{cite news|date=Feb 26, 2019|url=https://www.scu.edu/engineering/alumni/five10-report/archives/may-2019-five10-report/|title=SCU Team Wins 2nd place Juniper Comcast SDN Throwdown Competition|access-date=March 13, 2019}}</ref>