> I got the following message when I went to the site listed by
> you...."The page you requested is available only to paid
subscribers.
> DO NOT waste others time without checking out dependencies first!!!
It takes a rude guy to figure out that you might have made a mistake.
Sorry
folks here it goes again.....
-Pran
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December 5, 1997
Start-Up Juniper Gets $6 Million
In Funding From AT&T, Anschutz
Dow Jones Newswires
Juniper Networks Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up tha=
t is
trying to build a device to speed up Internet
communications, said Thursday that it has secured an=
other
$6 million in funding, this time from a group of
companies including AT&T Corp.
The new round of financing comes on
top of $56 million already pledged [Go] Hot
by a number of large Start-Up
telecommunications-equipment makers Juniper Strikes
and technology firms. Backers Deal With IBM
include Telefon AB LM Ericsson, (Nov. 5)
Lucent Technologies Inc., Northern [Go] Makers o=
f
Telecom Ltd., 3Com Corp., Siemens Telecom
AG, Newbridge Networks Corp. and Equipment Join =
to
WorldCom Inc.'s UUNet Technologies Invest in New
unit. The investors will have the Project (Aug. 2=
9)
opportunity to integrate Juniper's
technology with their existing products.
Juniper, of Mountain View, Calif., has ambitious pla=
ns to
develop key components for high-speed networking dev=
ices
in a bid to challenge networking-market leader Cisco
Systems Inc.
Juniper Chief Executive Officer Scott Kriens said th=
e
funding from AT&T and the Anschutz Family Investment=
Co.
LLC is significant because it came from companies th=
at
operate networks where Juniper's products might be
deployed. The Anschutz Family Investment owns a majo=
rity
interest in Qwest Communications International Inc.,
which is building a fiber-optic network.
Juniper aims to marry advanced chip technology with =
a new
breed of switch router -- a computer that directs da=
ta
between far-flung networks -- that can process
information at rates of billions of bits per second.
Right now, the top speed of switches for the backbon=
es of
major public networks range up to about 622 million =
bits
a second, but operators can improve potential
through-put, or capacity, by linking the switches
together. Juniper and several competitors are seekin=
g
speeds of 2.4 billion bits per second or more, and
through-put rates of 60 billion bits or more. The
technology is considered essential to ending bottlen=
ecks
on the Internet.
Juniper, which is $20 million and two years into its
development effort, has shied from discussing its
progress.
Last month, Juniper announced a deal with Internatio=
nal
Business Machines Corp. in which IBM agreed to make
custom specialty chips known as ASICs, or applicatio=
n
specific integrated circuits, for Juniper.
Networking start-ups always face long odds, because =
of
the expense of developing such complex products, the
furious competition, and the presence of Cisco, whic=
h is
trying to squeeze out challengers by offering an
end-to-end line of products. Cisco is testing a devi=
ce
that provides performance similar to the planned Jun=
iper
router.
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