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To: Scrapps who wrote (16532)	6/30/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Juniper Networks Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up that is trying to build a device to speed up Internet communications, is expected to announce Wednesday that its routing software is being tested and used by several Internet service providers. The Mountain View, Calif., company, which has been secretive about its product lineup, late Tuesday also said it expects to have its first products available commercially in the second half of the year. Juniper has ambitious plans to develop key components for high-speed networking devices in a bid to challenge networking-market leader Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO). Juniper aims to marry advanced chip technology with a new breed of switch router - a computer that directs data between farflung networks - that can process information at rates of billions of bits per second. Right now, the top speed of switches for the so-called backbones of major public networks range up to about 622 million bits a second, but operators can improve potential through-put, or capacity, by linking the switches together. Juniper and several competitors are seeking speeds of 2.4 billion bits per second or more, and through-put rates of 60 billion bits or more. The technology is considered essential to ending bottlenecks on the Internet. 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). The investors will have the opportunity to integrate Juniper's technology with their existing products. 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.