M Series and EX Series to Connect over 30 Million Research and Education Users Throughout Asia-Pacific

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that its M Series Routers and EX Series Ethernet Switches have been deployed in the third generation of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3), greatly improving scale and efficiency while facilitating the transition to IPv6. TEIN3 provides a dedicated high-capacity Internet network for research and education communities across 11 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and the Juniper infrastructure will enable TEIN3 to deliver advanced services such as next-generation video conferencing, virtual classrooms, remote consulting and other services while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

TEIN3 offers Asia-Pacific a gateway for global collaboration, enabling more than 30 million users in 4,000 research and educational organizations across the region to participate in joint projects such as the fight against malaria, forecasting extreme weather conditions and improving health via telemedicine. The TEIN3 project is coordinated by DANTE, a not-for-profit organization that operates regional networking projects in Europe, Latin America and the southern Mediterranean rim.

“Researchers rely on TEIN3 to transfer tremendous amounts of data concerning very important projects ranging from preventing disease to astrophysics, so it’s absolutely critical the network delivers high levels of scale, performance and reliability,” said Dai Davies, general manager of DANTE. “We decided to go with Juniper because in our experience Juniper does what it says it will do.”

Additionally, TEIN3 connects researchers with their peers in Europe and other parts of the world via linkage to GÉANT2. Asian locations already connected include Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. There are plans to further expand the TEIN infrastructure for connectivity in the South Asian subcontinent.

Juniper Networks M Series Multiservice Edge Routers are deployed in the world’s largest networks, delivering advanced IP/MPLS edge routing services at scale that enable high-performance service providers and enterprises to rapidly deploy new services while minimizing the total cost of ownership.