Juniper-Riverbed to offer for WAN optimisation solns

BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks announced that it has partnered with wide area network (WAN) optimisation service provider Riverbed Technology to deliver WAN optimization solutions.

Juniper will license Riverbed’s application delivery controller (ADC) technology for approximately $75 million.

This technology partnership will enhance Juniper’s capabilities in network domains across the enterprise, including in data centre, across WANs, and consumer and business devices through new application networking technologies that manage, scale and optimize any application’s use of the network.

Riverbed and Juniper will begin a joint effort to integrate Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile technology into the Juniper's Junos Pulse client to provide a mobile acceleration solution for mobile phones and tablets.

Bob Muglia, executive vice president, Software Solutions Division, Juniper Networks, said: "We are excited to partner with Riverbed to bring innovative, ground-breaking technologies to our enterprise customers. Riverbed’s application acceleration and WAN optimization solutions will complement our strategic focus on delivering high-performance networking infrastructure and further enhance our position in both data center and consumer and business device domains. Our joint efforts with Riverbed will enable us to push the future of application networking.”