List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks campus in Amsterdam

Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996.[1]

By 2001, Juniper had made only a few acquisitions of smaller companies, due to the leadership's preference for organic growth.[2] The pace of acquisition picked up in 2001 and 2002 with the purchases of Pacific Broadband and Unisphere Networks.[3] In 2004 Juniper made a $4 billion acquisition of network security company NetScreen Technologies.[4] Juniper revised NetScreen's channel program that year and used its reseller network to bring other products to market.[5]

Juniper made five acquisitions in 2005, mostly of startups with deal values ranging from $8.7 to $337 million. It acquired application-acceleration vendor Redline Networks, VOIP company Kagoor Networks, as well as wide area network (WAN) company Peribit Networks.[6] Peribit and Redline were incorporated into a new application products group and their technology was integrated into Juniper's infranet framework.[7][8]

From 2010 to September 2011, Juniper made six acquisitions and invested in eight companies. Often Juniper acquired early-stage startups, developing their technology, than selling it to pre-existing Juniper clients.[9] Juniper acquired two digital video companies, Ankeena Networks and Blackwave Inc., as well as wireless LAN software company Trapeze Networks.[9][10] In 2012, Juniper acquired Mykonos Software, which develops security software intended to deceive hackers already within the network perimeter.[11] and a developer of software-defined network controllers, Contrail Systems.[12] In 2014 Juniper acquired the software-defined networking (SDN) company WANDL.[13]

Acquisitions

Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
1 November 15, 1999 Layer Five, Palo Alto, CA.
Founded : 1997 		Intellectual property development and licensing  United States 19,000,000 [14][15]
2 January 18, 2000 Pacific Advantage Ltd (PAL), Hong Kong.
Founded : 1994 		Sales and marketing organization  Hong Kong $4 million in stock [16][17]
3 December 11, 2000 Micro Magic Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
Founded : 1995 		ASIC design firm  United States $260 million in stock and cash [18][19]
4 November 12, 2001 Pacific Broadband Communications, San Jose, CA.
Founded : 1999 		CMTS and broadband solutions  United States 200,000,000 [20][21]
5 July 2, 2002 Unisphere Networks, Westford, MA, a subsidiary of Siemens.
Founded : 1999 		Networking equipment manufacturer, Edge routers  United States $585 million, which includes $375 million in cash and 36.5 million shares [22][23]
6 April 16, 2004 NetScreen Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA.
Founded: 1997 		Network security and access solutions and appliances.  United States 4,000,000,000 [24][25]
7 May 2, 2005 Kagoor Networks, San Mateo, CA.
Founded: 2000 		Provider of session border control (SBC) products for VoIP networking  United States 65,700,000 [26][27][28]
8 July 6, 2005 Peribit Networks, Santa Clara, CA.
Founded: 2000 		Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization technology  United States $337 million in cash, stock and assumed stock options. [29][30][31]
9 May 2, 2005 Redline Networks, Campbell, CA.
Founded : 2000 		Development of Application Front End (AFE) technology.  United States $132 million in cash and assumed stock options. [28][29][30]
10 October 25, 2005 Acorn Packet Solutions, Mc Lean, VA.
Founded : 2002 		Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and other circuit-based applications across next-generation IP networks.  United States $8.7 million [32][33]
11 November 14, 2005 Funk Software, Cambridge, MA.
Founded : 1982 		Network access security solutions  United States $122 million [34][35]
12 April 8, 2010 Ankeena Networks, Santa Clara, CA.
Founded : 2008 		New media infrastructure technology  United States $100 million

[36] [37]

13 November 8, 2010 Blackwave Networks, Acton, MA.
Founded : 2008 		Video Storage and delivery  United States Undisclosed

[38]

14 November 16, 2010 Trapeze Networks, Pleasanton, California
Founded : 2002 		WLAN systems and management software  United States $152 million

[39] [40]

15 December 6, 2010 Altor Networks, Redwood Shores, California
Founded : 2007 		Virtual network security  United States $95 million

[41] [42]

16 February 21, 2011 Brilliant Telecommunications, Campbell, CA
Founded: 2004 		Synchronization technology  United States $4.5 million [43]
17 February 22, 2012 Mykonos Software, San Francisco CA
Founded : 2009 		Intrusion Deception Systems  United States $80 million

[44]

18 December 12, 2012 Contrail Systems, Santa Clara, CA.
Founded: 2012 		Software-defined network controllers  United States $176 million [45][46]
19 February 3, 2013 Webscreen Systems, Bracknell UK
Founded : 2002 		dDoS  United Kingdom $10 million

[47]

20 December 16, 2013 WANDL, Piscataway NJ
Founded : 1986 		Network software solutions for design, planning and operations  United States $60 million

[48]

21 January, 2016 BTI Systems, Kanata, ON, Canada

Founded: 2000

DWDM and Optical Transmission  Canada not disclosed
22 December 1, 2016 Appformix Cloud operations management and optimization technology  United States $47.9 million
23 Sept 2, 2017 Cyphort Security analytics for advanced threat defense  United States not disclosed [49]
24 November 29, 2018 HTBASE Software-Defined Enterprise Multicloud  Canada not disclosed

[50]

25 March 4, 2019 Mist Systems AI Driven WLAN  United States $405 million

[51]

26 September 28, 2020 Netrounds Intent-Based Networking and Automated Closed Loop Assurance  United States not disclosed

[52]

27 October 19, 2020 128 Technology Accelerating the Industry Transformation from Network-Centric SD-WANs to User-Centric AI-Driven WANs  United States $450 million

[53]

28 December 7, 2020 Apstra Intent-Based Networking for Data Center Networks  United States not disclosed

[54]

Acquisitions summary

Juniper Networks, Inc. has made 22 acquisitions, although it has not taken stake in any companies. Juniper made 1 divestiture in 2006.

Year Acquisitions Stakes Divestitures
2019 1 0 0
2018 1 0 0
2017 1 0 0
2013 2 0 0
2012 2 0 0
2011 1 0 0
2010 3 0 0
2009 0 0 0
2008 0 0 0
2007 0 0 0
2006 0 0 1
2005 5 0 0
2004 1 0 0
2003 0 0 0
2002 1 0 0
2001 1 0 0
2000 2 0 0
1999 1 0 0
Total 22 0 1

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