10/06-05   -   Pressmeddelande

Juniper Networks announces J-Partner service affiliation program in Emea

J-Partners Recognized and Rewarded for Offering Professional Services

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., June 9th, 2005 — Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) has announced the Juniper Networks Services Affiliation Program – a new and enhanced benefit to the Juniper J-Partner program. This new channel offering recognizes and rewards Juniper Networks channel partners, called J-Partners, who deliver business critical services and solutions to their customers and reinforce Juniper Networks’ focus on a value-based program.

Juniper Networks Service Affiliation Program is designed to deliver value to channel partners in four fundamental ways by: driving incremental professional services revenue, providing access to practice-enhancing tools, increasing potential partner-to-partner collaboration and offering differentiation to J-Partners carrying the Service Affiliation badge. By leveraging and promoting channel partners’ deep expertise and services practices in networking and security technologies, Juniper Networks increases its capacity for professional services and affirms the company’s channel-friendly customer services model.

“Juniper Networks’ Service Affiliation Program allows Juniper and its J-Partners to deliver the high value-add services that enterprises of all sizes require," said Gert-Jan Schenk, Juniper Networks’ vice president of channels in EMEA. “While providing unique incentive opportunities, the program also ensures that partners have access to appropriate resources, training and tools to help them address customers’ toughest networking and security challenges."

The Service Affiliation program rewards and promotes channel partners who deliver any combination of security and networking professional services around these six core technologies or practices including:
- Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Networks (SSL VPN) design and implementation
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) design and implementation
- Firewall/VPN migration
- Security audits
- Network design and implementation
- Router migration

To obtain the Service Affiliation program designation, the J-Partner must meet a stringent list of prerequisites including; proof of an established service practice, dedicated professional services engineers with technical proficiency and technical certifications as well as support programs and tools. On an annual basis, Juniper Networks will verify and certify existing services practices with these top tier partners. This new program will reside in the J-Partner Services program and is an addition to the Authorized Support Center and the Authorized Education Center programs currently offered to J-Partners.

For more information about Juniper Networks and the J-Partner program, please visit:http://www.juniper.net/partners/.
About Juniper Networks, Inc.

Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company’s purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks’ portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world’s most demanding networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.