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Juniper Networks Wins Four Top Awards at Interop Tokyo 2024

The QFX5240 Switch won the “Best of Show” Grand Prix award, alongside three other runner-up and special prize awards, testament to Juniper’s commitment to delivering exceptional end-to-end operator and end-user experiences

TOKYO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Juniper® Networks (NYSE:JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, today announced that it has won multiple “Best of Show” awards at Interop Tokyo 2024, maintaining its impressive winning streak of continuous wins at the prestigious industry conference since 2007. The awards recognize Juniper’s commitment to ensuring every connection is reliable, measurable and secure for every device, user, application and asset, through the industry’s premier AI-Native Networking Platform.

This year, Juniper received four awards, including three for “Best of Show” across the following categories:

• “Best of Show” Grand Prix      Award (Network Infrastructure – AI Infrastructure/Data Center): QFX5240      Switch

• “Best of Show” Grand Prix      Runner-Up Award (New Wave): Marvis      Minis

• “Best of Show” Grand Prix      Runner-Up Award (Security – Targeted Threat/Cybersecurity Measures): SRX1600      & SRX2300      Series Firewalls

• Special Prize: PTX10002-36QDD      Packet Transport Router

The “Best of Show” awards regularly receive hundreds of nominations from across the industry, being evaluated each year by a prominent judging panel of industry experts and executives. Last year, Juniper’s award winners included the EX4400-24X and EX4100 Ethernet Switches, as well as the MX10004 Universal Routing Platform.

With a rich tradition since 1994, Interop Tokyo has grown into one of the largest networking computing trade shows in Asia, noted for being a leading showcase of cutting-edge networking products, solutions and services on a global stage. Attracting over 150,000 attendees (including co-located events) each year, it features an extensive agenda of keynotes, seminars, conferences and live product demonstrations by leading networking companies from across the world.

Award-Winning Product Highlights:

AI Data Center: QFX5240 Switch

• Providing the foundation for      AI Data Centers, the QFX5240 Switch is built on Broadcom Tomahawk 5      silicon and offers high-density 800GbE ports in a 2U fixed form factor,      which is twice the capacity of the previous generation.

• It is designed to meet the      advanced networking requirements of large-scale clusters and works      seamlessly with the Juniper® Apstra      Intent-Based Networking platform, ensuring smooth operation for AI and      machine learning workloads during training and access. In addition, Apstra      is now integrated with the Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA),      bringing AIOps to the data center.

• As a cornerstone of AI      networks, these switches enable fast job completion times (JCT) and      accelerate training through high GPU utilization.

Marvis Minis

• Proactively simulates user      connections digitally to learn the network configuration via unsupervised      machine learning and proactively highlight network issues, working with      Mist AI™ to instantly validate network configurations and find/detect      problems before they have a chance to negatively impact end user      experiences.

• The tool constantly learns as      it ingests more data, using its growing knowledge base to proactively      correct issues in real time, reduce the number of trouble tickets and      accelerate issue resolution.

• As the first AI-Native      Networking Digital Experience Twin, Minis transforms how IT teams interact      with enterprise networks across wireless access, wired access and SD-WAN      domains.

SRX1600 & 2300 Series Firewalls

• The Juniper Networks™ SRX      Series Firewalls are an integral part of the Juniper      Connected Security portfolio, protecting the network edge, data      center network and cloud applications.

• Powered by the Junos      operating system, the firewalls are available in physical form factors      like the single-rack SRX1600, SRX2300, SRX4300 and SRX4700, alongside virtual      and containerized form factors.

• All are managed by Juniper      Security Director Cloud for a unified management experience and      consistent security policy enforcement across a hybrid network.

800GbE Networking: PTX10002-36QDD Packet Transport Router

• 800GE networking for the AI      era, engineered to revolutionize the industry with three key tenets:      sustainability, performance, and automation.

• Ensures sustainability for      environmentally conscious networking, including through energy-efficient      silicon, optimized chassis designs and advanced power management      capabilities, as well as through intelligent automation capabilities to      reduce total cost of ownership.

• Delivers adaptable scale and      performance through an ultra-compact fixed form factor router, that      supports diverse 400GbE and 800GbE WAN and data center use cases across      both service provider and enterprise networks.

• Both the PTX10002-36QDD      and the LC1301-36QD      modular line card feature the Express 5 Silicon, designed to scale and      transform data center networking for AI workloads as part of Juniper’s      AI-Native Networking Platform.

Supporting Quote

“It is an honor to have won four prestigious awards at Interop Tokyo this year, continuing our proud tradition of consecutive top wins over the past 17 years. Our peers continue to recognize the capabilities of Juniper’s truly innovative AI-Native Networking Platform, purpose-built to leverage AIOps to assure the exceptional end-to-end and end-user experiences. Looking forward, we are excited to continue delivering the right data, the right real-time response and the right infrastructure to all our customers, in Japan and across the world.”

- Tomohiro Furuya, VP & Country Manager, Japan, Juniper Networks

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