Saudi Ministry Migrates to High-Performance Network From Juniper Networks

Integrated End-to-End Solution Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 35%, Improves
Performance by 55% and Secures Business Critical Assets
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance
networking, today announced that the Ministry of Culture and Information, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia`s agency responsible for state broadcasting, printing
and information services, has built a new high-performance network for voice,
video and data using an end-to-end integrated infrastructure solution from
Juniper Networks. The Juniper solution includes switching, routing and security
technologies, and has been designed to provide a fast, reliable, secure
infrastructure for the ministry`s mission-critical network traffic and
applications while reducing total cost of ownership.

"Rather than upgrade our existing network, we decided to migrate to a more
flexible IP network with Juniper that would deliver 55% faster performance and
security while lowering operating costs by 35%," said Dr. Abdulaziz Almulhem,
chief information and strategy officer, Ministry of Culture and Information.
"Juniper`s best-in-class network infrastructure solutions deliver the high
levels of throughput, reliability and quality of service that we require for our
sensitive and bandwidth-hungry applications."

The Ministry of Culture and Information is responsible for all information
services in Saudi Arabia, including television broadcasting, radio broadcasting,
publication of printed material and foreign press relations. Information and
news is provided to the public through the Ministry`s network of radio and
television broadcasting stations, and through the publication and distribution
of books and other material. The Ministry of Culture and Information has 38
local publication offices, eight centers for local information and seven centers
for foreign information.

The Ministry of Culture and Information has deployed Juniper Networks EX Series
Ethernet Switches and M Series Multiservice Edge Routers in its corporate
backbone network. By deploying a switching and routing solution that leverages
JUNOS Software - a single source operating system integrating routing,
switching, security and network services from Juniper - the Ministry can
streamline network operations and improve the availability, performance and
security of business applications. A commissioned study has estimated costs
savings of using JUNOS Software to be as much as 41%.

The Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN Appliances provide market-leading,
browser-based SSL VPN security capabilities to serve the Ministry`s remote
access needs with best-in class endpoint security, granular access control, and
scalability. The SA Series works with the Juniper Networks IDP Series Intrusion
Detection and Prevention Appliances to automatically block malicious traffic
coming from outside the network, with the Juniper Networks ISG Series Integrated
Security Gateway delivering scalable network and application security.

Additional security technology implemented includes Juniper Networks NetScreen
Series Security Systems with integrated firewall, VPN and traffic management
functionality, Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service protection at
scale to secure the core implementations within The Ministry of Information and
Culture`s network; and the Juniper Networks WXC Series Application Acceleration
Platform, a WAN optimization solution that helps maximize WAN investments and
improve application response times for the Ministry`s branch offices.

"Organizations now demand more from their networks, in terms of simplicity,
performance and value for money," said Gert-Jan Schenk, senior vice president of
operations EMEA, Juniper Networks. "Juniper Networks high-performance
infrastructure solutions help The Ministry of Culture and Information to create
an innovative and operationally efficient environment that helps to reduce costs
and raise productivity without compromise."

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper
offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and
trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications
over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional
information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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