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]
Date | Company | Business | Country | Value (USD) | References | |
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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 | |
13 | November 8, 2010 | Blackwave Networks, Acton, MA. Founded : 2008 |
Video Storage and delivery | United States | Undisclosed | |
14 | November 16, 2010 | Trapeze Networks, Pleasanton, California Founded : 2002 |
WLAN systems and management software | United States | $152 million | |
15 | December 6, 2010 | Altor Networks, Redwood Shores, California Founded : 2007 |
Virtual network security | United States | $95 million | |
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 | |
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 | |
20 | December 16, 2013 | WANDL, Piscataway NJ Founded : 1986 |
Network software solutions for design, planning and operations | United States | $60 million | |
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 | |
25 | March 4, 2019 | Mist Systems | AI Driven WLAN | United States | $405 million | |
26 | September 28, 2020 | Netrounds | Intent-Based Networking and Automated Closed Loop Assurance | United States | not disclosed | |
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 | |
28 | December 7, 2020 | Apstra | Intent-Based Networking for Data Center Networks | United States | not disclosed |
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 |
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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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