Foreword
In early 2004, when I was the product manager for Firewall VPN systems at NetScreen Technologies, I remember saying to a coworker, “Juniper Networks should acquire us. It just makes sense. They could take advantage of our security expertise, and we could get access to their great routing technologies. And they’ve got some great chassis technology that we could take advantage of in our next-generation security systems … It would be a real win-win.”
Little did I realize that discussions of the pending acquisition were already well underway. Within months, the acquisition of NetScreen Technologies by Juniper Networks was completed, and the combined teams were forging ahead on a plan to build a next-generation security system worthy of the pedigree of the two companies: NetScreen’s award-winning, high-performance security systems and Juniper Networks’ market-leading, high-performance carrier-class routers.
But in order to combine these technologies in an optimal manner, it was crucial to understand the environments into which these systems would be deployed. And we did exactly that. We went into the field and worked, and listened, and polled and tested, until we felt confident in our ability to deliver high levels of security, massive performance and scale, rock-solid high availability, and the robustness of the best carrier-class routing systems. The result of these efforts was the Juniper Networks ...
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