Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the trade chief in community innovation, and Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS), a worldwide provider of superior wi-fi techniques, right this moment introduced a brand new expertise alliance to ship open, wired and wi-fi networking options for enterprise, authorities and training buyer segments. The corporations will work to ship a unified wired and wi-fi answer, in addition to collaborate on international go-to-market alternatives to ship confirmed, carrier-class community efficiency, resiliency and scale to mid-size and giant enterprise prospects.
Gartner predicts that end-user spending on enterprise wi-fi LAN (WLAN) gear will develop from $5.3 billion in 2015 to $7.8 billion worldwide in 2019. Ruckus and Juniper Networks consider this improve is being pushed largely by an inflow of latest WiFi-enabled units and cloud functions being introduced into the office by workers. This places new ranges of efficiency and bandwidth strain on the campus community infrastructure, from WiFi entry factors to the community core, creating the want for a versatile, safe and built-in wired and wi-fi community answer.
News Highlights
With a powerful heritage of delivering open, standards-based and carrier-grade options, Juniper Networks and Ruckus are nicely geared up to meet and exceed the distinctive calls for on the enterprise campus community. The aim of this expertise alliance is to ship community flexibility and decreased whole price of possession for its joint prospects.
– Best-in-Class Performance and Scale: Combining Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches with Ruckus ZoneFlex entry factors and SmartZone (SZ) Wi-Fi administration platform will ship carrier-class networking options to numerous enterprise environments and allow straightforward community enlargement as enterprise calls for develop.
– Simplified, Automated and Secure Network Management: Both Ruckus Wireless 3+1 SmartZone clustering and Juniper’s Virtual Chassis expertise scale back the variety of logical wired and wi-fi units for administration and automation, in addition to guarantee most availability. Juniper Networks Junos Space Network Director offers visibility and administration of the switching infrastructure to simply handle rising networks and new service classes. Comprehensive safety might be achieved with 802.1x community entry management on each Ruckus Smart WiFi and Juniper Networks EX Series Switches. Ruckus will ship easy, safe BYOD provisioning and onboarding, whereas the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways will ship next-generation firewall capabilities.
– Open-Standards Based Solutions: Building on Juniper’s Open Converged Framework, the deliberate alliance is predicated on open, standards-based {hardware} and software program merchandise from each Juniper Networks and Ruckus, guaranteeing funding safety for patrons as their wired and wi-fi community calls for evolve.
Supporting Quotes
“As a long time Cisco wired and wireless shop, we really needed a ‘best-in-class approach in order to offer students, staff and guests an exceptional wired and wireless experience across our entire district. Standardizing on Juniper Networks switches and firewalls and Ruckus Smart WiFi has allowed us to not only realize a lower total cost of ownership, more importantly, it also has empowered us to deliver more pervasive performance and reliable network services with a unified wired and wireless infrastructure that scales to meet virtually any wired or wireless demand we can anticipate.”
– Mike Leseberg, director of IT for Richland School District, Richland, WA
“Our decision to deploy best-in-class Juniper switches to complement our new Ruckus Wireless Smart WiFi network has been driven by the insatiable demand for reliable, high-speed wireless connectivity that requires a wired infrastructure ideally suited to support it. With a Juniper switching infrastructure supporting our new Wave 2-based 802.11ac Ruckus Smart WiFi network, we will be able to more cost-effectively scale our network service performance to address user demands and client technology innovations that are becoming increasingly difficult to anticipate. For us, the collaboration between Juniper and Ruckus is a win-win solution for our students and staff.”
– Aaron Heath, lead community/server specialist at Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, MO
“Enterprises around the world are being challenged to accommodate the use of more and more mobile devices and applications, while still maintaining a secure, high-performance operating environment. Juniper Networks provides the wired infrastructure critical for serving as the backbone for the Smart WiFi networks we deliver. This ‘no-compromise’ partnership offers the value and ROI that businesses are looking for, with the performance, flexibility and scalability they demand.”
– Dan Rabinovitsj, chief working officer, Ruckus Wireless
“The network infrastructure of our enterprise customers is experiencing incredible performance pressure due to the influx of mobile devices in the workplace connecting to mission-critical apps and to content in the cloud. Building on Juniper’s Open Converged Framework, teaming with Ruckus ensures carrier-grade levels of scale and performance through our interoperable wired and wireless solutions to solve the WiFi capacity and coverage challenges that our enterprise customers face.”
– Jonathan Davidson, govt vice chairman and basic supervisor, Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks
Additional Resources
– Datasheet: Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches
– Product Page: Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex R710
Source: Gartner, Inc. “Forecast: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 2012-2019, 1Q15 Update”, March 2015
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) delivers innovation throughout routing, switching and safety. Juniper Networks’ improvements in software program, silicon and techniques remodel the expertise and economics of networking. Additional info may be discovered at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.internet) or join with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.
About Ruckus Wireless
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) is a worldwide provider of superior wi-fi techniques for the quickly increasing cell Internet infrastructure market. The firm presents a variety of indoor and out of doors “Smart WiFi” merchandise to cell carriers, broadband service suppliers, and company enterprises, and has roughly 52,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus expertise addresses WiFi capability and protection challenges attributable to the ever-increasing quantity of visitors on wi-fi networks due to accelerated adoption of cell units reminiscent of smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wi-fi voice, video, and knowledge expertise improvements, reminiscent of adaptive antenna arrays that stretch sign vary, improve shopper knowledge charges, and keep away from interference, offering constant and dependable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content material and companies over normal 802.11 WiFi. For extra info, go to http://www.ruckuswireless.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press launch accommodates forward-looking statements that contain a lot of assumptions, uncertainties and dangers together with, amongst different issues, statements regarding the deliberate alliance between Juniper Networks and Ruckus, the measurement of the market alternative, the integration of Juniper Networks’ and Ruckus’ merchandise and the efficiency and advantages of these merchandise to prospects. Actual outcomes or occasions might differ materially from these anticipated in these forward-looking statements on account of sure elements, together with delays in scheduled product availability, incompatibility of applied sciences, the failure of Juniper Networks and Ruckus to precisely predict rising technological tendencies, and different elements listed in the most up-to-date report on Form 10-Ok and Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for every of Juniper Networks and Ruckus. All statements made on this press launch are made solely as of the date of this press launch. Juniper Networks and Ruckus undertake no obligation to replace the info on this launch in the occasion information or circumstances subsequently change after the date of this press launch. Any future product, characteristic, enhancement or associated specification that could be referenced on this press launch are for info functions solely, are topic to change at any time with out discover and are usually not commitments to ship any future product, characteristic, enhancement or associated specification. The info contained on this press launch is meant to define Juniper Networks’ and Ruckus’ basic product route and shouldn’t be relied on in making a buying determination.
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