Editing Juniper Networks (section)

===Routers and switches===
Juniper Networks' first product was the [[Junos]] router operating system, which was released on July 1, 1998.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=July 1, 1998|title=Juniper Networks Inc. Launching Product, Software for Internet}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Infoworld|first=Stephen|last=Lawson|date=July 6, 1998|title=Juniper unveils Junos routing code for Net}}</ref> The first Juniper router was made available that September and was a core router for internet service providers called the M40.<ref name="Pavlichek2002">{{cite book|author=Doris E. Pavlichek|title=Juniper Networks Reference Guide: JUNOS Routing, Configuration, and Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZAQR-_TJJcC|year=2002|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|isbn=978-0-201-77592-1}}</ref>{{RP|8}}<ref name="eleven"/> It incorporated specialized [[application-specific integrated circuit]]s (ASIC) for routing internet traffic that were developed in partnership with IBM.<ref>{{cite news|date=September 16, 1998|title=Juniper ships speedy router|first=Ben|last=Heskett|url=http://news.cnet.com/Juniper-ships-speedy-router/2100-1033_3-215617.html|publisher=CNET|access-date=December 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Start-Up One-Ups Cisco With Its 'Internet Router'|last=Lee|first=Yvonne |newspaper=Investor's Business Daily|date=September 23, 1998|page=A11}}</ref> It had ten times the throughput of comparable contemporary Cisco products.<ref name="eleven">{{cite news|title=Juniper hopes to boost 'Net with massive M40 router|first=Jeff|last=Caruso|newspaper=Network World|date=September 21, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper: Worth the price?|last=Schaff|first=William|newspaper=InformationWeek|date=August 23, 1999}}</ref> The M40 was followed by the smaller M20 router in December 1999<ref name="one"/> and the M160 in March 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-238503.html&tag=st.ne.1002|title=Juniper trumps Cisco at its own game|date=March 28, 2000|publisher=CNET News  |access-date=February 4, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper to Introduce System For Faster Net Switching|first=Seth|last=Schiesel|date=March 28, 2000|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/28/business/juniper-to-introduce-system-for-faster-net-switching.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref>

By 2000, Juniper had developed five hardware systems and made seven new releases of its Junos operating system.<ref name="Inc2001">{{cite book|author=IDG Network World Inc|title=Network World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56|date=April 23, 2001|publisher=IDG Network World Inc|pages=56–|issn=0887-7661}}</ref> That April, Juniper released the second generation of the internet processors embedded in its core routers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper Networks to upgrade all its routers to Internet Processor II|last=Wirbel|first=Loring|newspaper=Electronic Engineering Times|date=April 17, 2000}}</ref> In April 2002, Juniper released the first of the T-series family (originally known under the code-name Gibson), which could perform four times as many route lookups per second as the M160.<ref name="unveil">{{cite news|title=Juniper unveils 'Gibson' core router|first=Jim|last=Duffy|newspaper=Network World|date=April 29, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Staying Competitive -- Juniper Rolls Out Routers|first=Sandra|last=Rufolo|newspaper=VARBusiness|date=July 26, 2004}}</ref> The first products of the TX Matrix family, which could be used to combine up to four T-series routers, was released in December 2004.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper's, Cisco's Products Face Off in Core Router Space|first=Ed|last=Gubbins|newspaper=Telephony|date=December 13, 2004}}</ref>

By 2003, Juniper had diversified into three major router applications: core routers, edge routers and routers for mobile traffic.<ref name="Pavlichek2002"/>{{RP|9}} Juniper's first major diversification from core routers was when it entered the market for edge routers, by acquiring the e-series product family (originally known as ERX) through the purchase of Unisphere in 2000.<ref name="fifteen"/><ref name="cautious">{{cite news|title=Networking Gear Firm Takes Cautious Route; Things Are Better, But...; Company execs hopeful about a recovery, though they"re "not convinced"|first=Mike|last=Angell|date=July 24, 2003|page=A10|newspaper=Investor's Business Daily}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper Nabs Unisphere for $740M|publisher=Light Reading|date=May 20, 2002|url=http://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/juniper-nabs-unisphere-for-$740m/d/d-id/580524|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref> By 2002, both Cisco and Juniper had increased their focus on edge routers, because many ISPs had built up abundant bandwidth at the core.<ref>{{cite news|title=Anticipated routers stir up a new core-edge debate|last=Suppa|first=Carly|newspaper=Network World Canada|date=April 19, 2002|url=http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/anticipated-routers-stir-up-a-new-core-edge-debate/24617}}</ref> Several improvements to Juniper's software and its broadband aggregation features were released in late 2003. At this time, Juniper had the largest market-share (52%) of the broadband aggregation market.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper enhances edge offerings|first=Jim|last=Duff|newspaper=Network World|date=July 7, 2003|url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/2334843/lan-wan/juniper-enhances-edge-offerings.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112062148/http://www.networkworld.com/article/2334843/lan-wan/juniper-enhances-edge-offerings.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 12, 2015|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref> In 2003, Juniper entered the market for cable-modem termination systems with the G-series product family after the acquisition of Pacific Broadband.<ref name="multichannel"/> The product family was discontinued later that year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper terminates G-series|newspaper=Network World Canada|date=August 22, 2003}}</ref>

Juniper's first enterprise switch product was the EX 4200, which was released in 2008. In a comparative technical test, ''Network World'' said the EX4200 was the top performer out of network switches they tested in latency and throughput, but its multicast features were "newer and less robust" than other aspects of the product.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper switch proves to be credible choice|first=David|last=Newman|newspaper=Network World|date=July 14, 2008|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/797306/lan-wan-juniper-switch-proves-to-be-credible-choice.html|access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> Juniper Networks announced the T1600 1.6 Terabits per second core router in 2007 and the newer T4000 4 Terabit router in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper Expands Core Routing Power with T4000|author=Sean Michael Kerner |date=November 15, 2010|url=http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3913216/Juniper-Expands-Core-Routing-Power-with-T4000.htm|newspaper=Enterprise Networking Planet}}</ref> In 2012, it released the ACX family of universal access routers.<ref>{{cite news|title=New ACX Routers Usher in Universal Access|first=Sean|last=Kerner |date=February 8, 2012|url=http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/new-acx-routers-usher-in-universal-access-.html|publisher=Enterprise Networking Planet|access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper launches ACX Universal Access router range|first=Jim|last=Duffy |date=February 8, 2012|url=http://www.techworld.com/news/networking/juniper-launches-acx-universal-access-router-range-3335891/#sthash.LgMkXLlG.dpuf|access-date=January 10, 2015|newspaper=Network World}}</ref> In 2013, the company made several new releases in the MX family of edge routers: it introduced a smaller version of its core routers called PTX3000, and several new enterprise routers were released.<ref name="SWOT"/><ref>{{cite news|title=PTX3000 aimed at metro networks, Tier 2/3 providers|first=Jim|last=Duffy|date=March 18, 2013|newspaper=Network World|access-date=January 10, 2015|url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/2164485/lan-wan/juniper-unveils-smaller-core-router.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809061734/http://www.networkworld.com/article/2164485/lan-wan/juniper-unveils-smaller-core-router.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 9, 2015}}</ref> Seven months later, Juniper acquired WANDL, and its technology was integrated into the NorthStar WAN controller Juniper announced in February 2014.<ref name="nwww"/>

In February 2011, Juniper introduced QFabric, a proprietary protocol<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228952/cisco-subnet/trill---spb---fabricpath---qfabric---flat-network-confusion-.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612143418/http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228952/cisco-subnet/trill---spb---fabricpath---qfabric---flat-network-confusion-.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 12, 2016|title=Trill? SPB? FabricPath? QFabric? Flat Network Confusion!|publisher=Network News |access-date=August 11, 2015}}</ref> methodology for transferring data over a network using a single network layer. Several individual products for the QFabric methodology were released throughout the year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper to Unveil New Networking System|first=Cari|last=Tuna|date=February 23, 2011|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703529004576160690841809326|access-date=December 23, 2014|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> In October 2013, Juniper introduced another network architecture called MetaFabric and a new set of switches, the QFX5100 family, as one of the foundations of the new architecture.<ref name="dafbdjna">{{cite news|title=Juniper Launches MetaFabric Network Architecture, Switches|first=Jeffrey|last=Burt|newspaper=eWeek|access-date=January 10, 2015|url=http://www.eweek.com/networking/juniper-launches-metafabric-network-architecture-switches.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150414174031/http://www.eweek.com/networking/juniper-launches-metafabric-network-architecture-switches.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 14, 2015|date=October 29, 2013}}</ref>

In February 2014, several software and hardware improvements were introduced for Juniper routers, including a series of software applications ISPs could use to provide internet-based services to consumers.<ref name="nwww">{{cite news|title=Juniper broadens SDN for carriers|first=Jim|last=Duffy|date=February 23, 2014|newspaper=Network World|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/687340/lan-wan-juniper-broadens-sdn-for-carriers.html|access-date=December 22, 2014}}</ref> In December 2014, Juniper introduced a network switch, OCX1100, that could run on either the Junos operating system or the [[Open Compute Project]] open-source software.<ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper Networks Embraces Open Source Hardware with Newest Switch|url=http://www.crn.com/news/networking/300075010/juniper-networks-embraces-open-source-hardware-with-newest-switch.htm|newspaper=CRN|date=December 4, 2014|first=Kristin|last=Bent|access-date=December 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software|first=Jim|last=Duffy|newspaper=Network World|date=December 3, 2014|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/933322/juniper-unbundles-switch-hardware-software.html|access-date=December 23, 2014}}</ref>