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]
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| Date | Company | Business | Country | Value (USD) | References | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Layer Five, Palo Alto, CA. Founded : 1997 | Intellectual property development and licensing | 19,000,000 | [14] [15] | |||
| 2 | Pacific Advantage Ltd (PAL), Hong Kong. Founded : 1994 | Sales and marketing organization | $4 million in stock | [16] [17] | |||
| 3 | Micro Magic Inc., Sunnyvale, CA. Founded : 1995 | ASIC design firm | $260 million in stock and cash | [18] [19] | |||
| 4 | Pacific Broadband Communications, San Jose, CA. Founded : 1999 | CMTS and broadband solutions | 200,000,000 | [20] [21] | |||
| 5 | Unisphere Networks, Westford, MA, a subsidiary of Siemens. Founded : 1999 | Networking equipment manufacturer, Edge routers | $585 million, which includes $375 million in cash and 36.5 million shares | [22] [23] | |||
| 6 | NetScreen Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA. Founded: 1997 | Network security and access solutions and appliances. | 4,000,000,000 | [24] [25] | |||
| 7 | Kagoor Networks, San Mateo, CA. Founded: 2000 | Provider of session border control (SBC) products for VoIP networking | 65,700,000 | [26] [27] [28] | |||
| 8 | Peribit Networks, Santa Clara, CA. Founded: 2000 | Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization technology | $337 million in cash, stock and assumed stock options. | [29] [30] [31] | |||
| 9 | Redline Networks, Campbell, CA. Founded : 2000 | Development of Application Front End (AFE) technology. | $132 million in cash and assumed stock options. | ||||
| 10 | Acorn Packet Solutions, Mc Lean, VA. Founded : 2002 | Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and other circuit-based applications across next-generation IP networks. | $8.7 million | [32] [33] | |||
| 11 | Funk Software, Cambridge, MA. Founded : 1982 | Network access security solutions | $122 million | [34] [35] | |||
| 12 | Ankeena Networks, Santa Clara, CA. Founded : 2008 | New media infrastructure technology | $100 million | [36] [37] | |||
| 13 | Blackwave Networks, Acton, MA. Founded : 2008 | Video Storage and delivery | Undisclosed | [38] | |||
| 14 | Trapeze Networks, Pleasanton, California Founded : 2002 | WLAN systems and management software | $152 million | [39] [40] | |||
| 15 | Altor Networks, Redwood Shores, California Founded : 2007 | Virtual network security | $95 million | [41] [42] | |||
| 16 | Brilliant Telecommunications, Campbell, CA Founded: 2004 | Synchronization technology | $4.5 million | [43] | |||
| 17 | Mykonos Software, San Francisco CA Founded : 2009 | Intrusion Deception Systems | $80 million | [44] | |||
| 18 | Contrail Systems, Santa Clara, CA. Founded: 2012 | Software-defined network controllers | $176 million | [45] [46] | |||
| 19 | Webscreen Systems, Bracknell UK Founded : 2002 | dDoS | $10 million | [47] | |||
| 20 | WANDL, Piscataway NJ Founded : 1986 | Network software solutions for design, planning and operations | $60 million | [48] | |||
| 21 | January, 2016 | BTI Systems, Kanata, ON, CanadaFounded: 2000 | DWDM and Optical Transmission | not disclosed | |||
| 22 | December 1, 2016 | Appformix | Cloud operations management and optimization technology | $47.9 million | |||
| 23 | Sept 2, 2017 | Cyphort | Security analytics for advanced threat defense | not disclosed | [49] | ||
| 24 | November 29, 2018 | HTBASE | Software-Defined Enterprise Multicloud | not disclosed | [50] | ||
| 25 | March 04, 2019 | Mist Systems | AI Driven WLAN | $405 million | [51] | ||
| 26 | September 28, 2020 | Netrounds | Intent-Based Networking and Automated Closed Loop Assurance | not disclosed | [52] | ||
| 27 | October 19, 2020 | 128 Technology | Accelerating the Industry Transformation from Network-Centric SD-WANs to User-Centric AI-Driven WANs | $450 million | [53] | ||
| 28 | Apstra | Intent-Based Networking for Data Center Networks | not disclosed | [54] |
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 |