Editing Juniper Networks (section)

===Competition===
By 2001, Juniper controlled one-third of the market for high-end core routers, mostly at the expense of [[Cisco Systems]] sales.<ref name="three">{{cite news|last=Files|first=Jennifer|title=Juniper in High-Speed Chase of Cisco|newspaper=The San Jose Mercury News|date=May 27, 2001|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26404354/from-archive-2001-juniper-high-speed-chase-cisco|access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name="street">{{cite web|url=http://www.thestreet.com/tech/networking/1184179.html|title=Juniper Snatching Router Market Share From Cisco|date=November 22, 2000|publisher=The Street.com|access-date=February 4, 2009|archive-date=December 5, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205095943/http://www.thestreet.com/tech/networking/1184179.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to ''[[Businessweek]]'', "analysts unanimously agree[d] that Juniper's boxes [were] technically superior to Cisco's because the hardware does most of the data processing. Cisco routers still relied on software, which often results in slower speeds."<ref name="two"/> However, Cisco provided a broader range of services and support and had an entrenched market position.<ref name="five"/><ref name="two"/> The press often depicted Juniper and Cisco as a "[[Goliath|David versus Goliath]]" story.<ref name="one"/><ref name="twelve">{{cite news|first=Peter|last=Purton|date=March 15, 2000|title=Juniper Networks is purpose-built to serve a new market, an internet infrastructure capable of connecting 520 million people|newspaper=Financial Times}}</ref> Cisco had grown through acquisitions to be a large generalist vendor for routing equipment in homes, businesses and for ISPs, whereas Juniper was thought of as the "anti-Cisco" for being a small company with a narrow focus.<ref name="economist"/><ref name="two"/><ref name="fifteen">{{cite news |last=Harvey |first=Fiona |author-link=Fiona Harvey |date=January 17, 2001 |title=Relentless competitor in the shadow of a giant |newspaper=Financial Times}}</ref>

In January 2001, Cisco introduced a suite of router products that ''Businessweek'' said was intended to challenge Juniper's increasing market-share.<ref name="two"/> According to ''Businessweek'', Juniper's top-end router was four times as fast at only twice the cost of comparable Cisco products.<ref name="seven">{{cite news|title=Juniper: The Upstart That's Eating Cisco's Lunch|date=September 10, 2000|url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2000-09-10/juniper-the-upstart-thats-eating-ciscos-lunch|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150414173956/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2000-09-10/juniper-the-upstart-thats-eating-ciscos-lunch|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 14, 2015|access-date=December 12, 2014|newspaper=BusinessWeek|first=John|last=Shinal}}</ref> Cisco's routers were not expected to erode Juniper's growing share of the market, but other companies such as [[Lucent]], [[Alcatel-Lucent|Alcatel]], and startups Avici Systems and Pluris had announced plans to release products that would out-pace Juniper's routers.<ref name="two"/>

Juniper introduced a suite of routers for the network edge that allowed it to compete with Cisco. Juniper's edge routers had a 9% market share two months after release.<ref name="three"/> Both companies made exaggerated marketing claims; Juniper promoted its products as stable enough to make IT staff bored and Cisco announced lab tests from ''[[Light Reading]]'' proved its products were superior to Juniper, whereas the publication itself reached the opposite conclusion.<ref name="three"/> By 2002, both companies were repeatedly announcing products with faster specifications than the other in what ''Network World'' called a "'speeds-and-feeds' public relations contest".<ref name="aoiuhfedo">{{cite news|title=Juniper looks beyond core routers|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/25521/juniper_looks_beyond_core_routers/|last=Stephen|first=Lawson|newspaper=Network World|date=March 25, 2002|access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref>

By 2004, Juniper controlled 38% of the core router market.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Dan|newspaper=The San Jose Mercury News|date=November 19, 2004|title=Juniper Networks gains more ground on Cisco}}</ref> By 2007, it had a 5%, 18% and 30% share of the market for enterprise, edge and core routers respectively.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Network World|first=Jim|last=Duffy|date=April 17, 2008|access-date=November 19, 2014|title=Cisco's IOS vs. Juniper's Junos|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/803758/data-center-cisco-s-ios-vs-juniper-s-junos.html}}</ref> [[Alcatel-Lucent]] was unsuccessful in challenging Juniper in the core router market but continued competing with Juniper in edge routers along with Cisco.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cisco Talks Tough Over Juniper Gear|first=Don|last=Clark|date=September 12, 2011|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111903532804576564620338230988?mod=googlenews_wsj&mg=reno64-wsj|access-date=December 22, 2014|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Company says market is ripe now for the 7950 XRS, which scales to 32Tbps and 160 100G Ethernet ports|first=Jim|last=Duffy|date=May 22, 2012|newspaper=Network World|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/709910/lan-wan-10-years-later-alcatel-lucent-revisits-cisco-and-juniper-in-the-core.html|access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref>