Juniper Networks and Riverbed Join Forces

JUNIPER NETWORKS AND RIVERBED ANNOUNCE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP TO ENABLE MORE SECURE, EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF APPLICATIONS ACROSS DEVICES, NETWORKS AND CLOUDS

• Under the terms of the agreement, Juniper Networks is licensing Riverbed’s application delivery controller (ADC) technology for approximately $75 million. This technology partnership will enhance Juniper’s capabilities in key network domains across the enterprise, including in the data center, across WANs, and consumer and business devices through new application networking technologies that better manage, scale and optimize any application’s use of the network.
• Riverbed and Juniper will begin a joint effort to integrate Riverbed’s Steelhead® Mobile technology into the Juniper Networks® Junos® Pulse client to provide a mobile acceleration solution for mobile phones and tablets.
• Riverbed and Juniper Networks will work together to deliver best-in-class WAN optimization solutions to their respective customers.
• The partnership will enable both companies to strengthen their respective application acceleration solution sets and provide customers with unmatched performance and flexibility, while reducing overall total cost of ownership.

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