Type: Public
On the web: http://www.juniper.net
Employees: 8,772
Employee growth: 21.3%

Juniper Networks has managed to blossom in a landscape dominated by Cisco. The company designs and sells network infrastructure equipment are used to deploy and manage services and applications across Internet protocol (IP) networks. Its products include routers, network traffic management software, virtual private network and firewall devices, data center and WAN acceleration tools, intrusion detection and prevention systems. It also offers systems integration and support services. Juniper sells directly and through resellers to network service providers, enterprises, government agencies, and schools. Verizon and AT&T are the company's top clients. More than half of Juniper's sales are made overseas.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $4,093.3M
One year growth: 23.4%
Net income: $618.4M
Income growth: 428.6%

Officers:
Chairman: Scott G. Kriens
CEO and Director: Kevin R. Johnson
Vice Chairman and CTO: Pradeep S. Sindhu

Competitors:
Alcatel-Lucent
Cisco Systems
Huawei Technologies

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