HPCwire Honors Juniper Networks with Coveted "Editors' Choice" Award

HPCwire Honors Juniper Networks with Coveted "Editors' Choice" Award

Leading News Source for High Productivity Computing Honors Juniper Networks

SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 19, 2006 - Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) today announced that it has earned HPCwire's "Editors' Choice" award for the Most Important High Productivity Computing (HPC) Networking Product or Technology category. Juniper's broad portfolio of high-performance routing, security and application acceleration products enable organizations focused on data-intensive computing to create an open, best-in-class network to support HPC applications.

"As businesses and organizations around the globe continue to add computing power to its networks, they need best-in-class technology to deliver the performance, reliability and security required to keep their advanced systems running at increasingly higher levels," said Steven Wastie, vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks. "This recognition from HPCwire further validates that our high-performance routing, security and application acceleration solutions are the best in the industry for supporting computationally intense applications and platforms."

HPCwire is the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of HPC technologies. Each year, HPCwire polls its global database of contributing editors and industry luminaries to determine the winners of these prestigious awards. HPCwire's "Editors' Choice" winners have been determined by votes of an advisory group and alumni panel of recognized luminaries, contributors and editors influential in the HPC ecosystem.

About Juniper Networks, Inc.

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