Juniper Completes Trapeze Acquisition: How It Will Benefit the Industry

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One month ago, we announced that Juniper Networks signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trapeze Networks, a technology leader in enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) systems and management software. Today I’m pleased to announce that we have completed the purchase and that Trapeze Networks is now part of Juniper Networks.

I’ve been talking to many customers over the past few weeks about what this acquisition means for Trapeze customers and what it means for Juniper customers. 

With this acquisition, Juniper adds WLAN to our existing campus and branch switching, routing and security offerings for our customers.  We believe the combination of Trapeze and Juniper innovation will deliver clear technology advantages for our customers that reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. 

Trapeze customers will be able to leverage Juniper’s expanded and increasingly integrated portfolio composed of end-to-end wired and wireless switching, routing and security infrastructure that increases productivity and delivers lowest TCO.

Customers have asked me how long they need to wait to realize the benefits of integration between Juniper and Trapeze products and solutions. Trapeze’s WLAN solutions combined with Junos^® Pulse client software can provide a seamless, secure, and easily managed roaming experience for today's wireless devices roaming between home, hotspots, and enterprise wireless environments.  

I wish a warm welcome to Trapeze customers who will now be able to leverage Juniper’s expanded and increasingly integrated portfolio composed of end-to-end wired and wireless switching, routing and security infrastructure to increase productivity. We plan to offer the same high levels of 24x7 follow-the-sun service and support for our expanded portfolio.

A few customers have asked about our investment plans in the Trapeze family of products.  We see WLAN as a long-term strategic fit. Juniper is a networking company that has bought an innovative, wireless networking access company and we plan to make this part of not only our product line but integrate it into our solutions going forward.

Juniper plans to invest in Trapeze’s existing overlay controller solution and in product integration. We also plan to introduce new access points, controllers, and software features, building on the existing Trapeze technology platform, based on Trapeze work in flight today and accelerated by Juniper IP and substantially increased R&D investment.

This acquisition advances Juniper’s vision for the new network, where customers will be able to build an end-to-end routing, security, wired and wireless switching infrastructure that improves users’ experience and increases their productivity regardless of location, at the lowest total cost of ownership.  Together, we plan to simplify enterprise networks to enable a seamless, high-quality, secure user experience to a mobile workforce.  I’m excited about the new opportunities this presents for Juniper and our customers.

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I think it will super exciting with the integration of trapeze and how it integrates into the Qfabric.  Now Finally juniper has the whole suite of capabilities. Juniper really means business. The success it achieve at such a short time for switches and now wireless. There is just so much of potential.