Juniper Networks Unveils Software, Says Pdts Expected In 2H
By Mark Boslet
PALO ALTO, Calif., (Dow Jones)--Juniper Networks Inc., the private
well-funded startup hoping to take on networking industry leader
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), will announced Wednesday that its
routing software is being tested and used by several Internet
service providers.
The Mountain View, Calif., company, which has been secretive up
to now about its product lineup, also said it expects to have its
first products available commercially in the second half of the year.
Juniper has its sights set on developing a fast terabit-speed router
with links to the optical fiber backbones that telecommunications
carriers use to transmit electronic data. Routers today have just
begun to run at gigabit speeds, and a terabit equals about 1,000
gigbits.
Juniper last year turned heads by raising more than $60 million from
an assortment of influential telecommunications and networking
companies, including L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (ERICY), AT&T
Corp. (T), Northern Telecom Ltd. (NT), Lucent Technologies Inc.
(LU), 3Com Corp. (COMS), the Uunet Technologies division of
Worldcom Inc. (WCOM) and an alliance between Siemens AG and
Newbridge Networks Corp. (NN).
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) also has agreed to
supply chips to the company.
Juniper Chief Executive Scott Kriens said his software, Junos, has
been tested for about six months at Uunet, At Home Corp. (ATHM),
Verio Inc. (VRIO) and MCI Communications Corp. (MCIC).
"This is a fundamental piece of the (product) puzzle," he said.
Junos is designed for Internet use, stressing reliability, a modular
design that protects one application when another goes down and,
fault detection that can "rollback" the affect of an erroneously
entered command, he said.
Kriens declined to provide details about the products he plans to
release this year.
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