U.S. Federal Government
The fundamental mission of federal organizations is to serve and protect citizens – and high-performance networks are now essential to that mission. Juniper Networks continues to build a highly successful portfolio of federal clients who demand fast, reliable, and secure collaboration capabilities throughout the enterprise, from the data center and the desktop to geospatial applications involving multiple partners and huge amounts of data.
Partnering with the leading systems integrators and solutions providers, Juniper Networks serves an extensive roster of U.S. defense, intelligence and civilian agencies, helping them to transform legacy administrative, executive, judicial and defense systems into next-generation applications that enable high-speed, secure collaborative environments.
Juniper Networks provide the backbone infrastructure of some of the nation's most mission-critical systems. Juniper is also a thought leader in Continuity of Operations Programs (COOP) and telework deployments, and in transitioning to the new IPv6 platform.
Solutions
Key Juniper solutions to support federal agencies include:
IPv6
Implementing the next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is quickly becoming a reality for most U.S. federal agencies. Juniper helps organizations achieve a smooth changeover and capture IPv6's benefits. These include better-quality service, heightened security, improved network management, and overall enhanced performance. With Juniper's support, federal agencies making the IPv6 transition gain the optimum knowledge needed to plan, implement and deploy the move while meeting their timelines.
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Emergency Preparedness/Continuity of Operations
Continuity of Operations (COOP) is critical to ensure that government agencies can provide services in times of crisis. Juniper's broad expertise helps agencies understand the considerations and processes necessary to create a COOP plan. This includes developing the necessary strategies, policies, concept of operations, and systems needed to support mission-critical activities in emergency situations.
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Data Center Consolidation
To reduce costs and complexity, federal government organizations are consolidating data centers to fewer sites, but IT must continue to ensure application availability and performance to all users, regardless of distance. Moreover, tomorrow's data centers must offer more than "Green IT" — but also provide increased power and bandwidth, as well as a smaller footprint. Juniper Networks products and services deliver advanced support of these goals.
> Learn more about Data Center Consolidation
Secure Collaboration
Defense, civilian, State/Local, and education/research networks must increasingly support the secure, real-time communication needs of a wide variety of users and partners. Juniper solutions allow communities of users to analyze, produce and disseminate information to support all network-based applications, from intelligence data to financial transactions, serving citizens, first responders, and war fighters in the field.
Geospatial Solutions
The integration and transport of high-volumes of data to support defense and civilian applications, across global geographies, is increasingly paramount to agency success. Juniper Networks helps users provide a common view of necessary data, imagery and information to support real-time battlefield analysis, border patrol surveillance, or other systems requiring huge amounts of data.
Software Development Kit (SDK) Solutions
Thanks to the open architecture of JUNOS software, Juniper customers and partners can develop new, specialized JUNOS applications using a powerful set of development resources, including a software development kit (SDK) that offers intelligent and secure interfaces to routing and service functions. The convergence of intelligent networks and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches allow systems integrators and customers to develop and deploy next generation services across their major programs.
Federal Security Compliance
In today's world, federal agencies must effectively deal with network security challenges even as they authenticate people, prepare for disasters, and audit and report on compliance. Juniper helps federal organizations achieve secure networking along with compliance. For example, Juniper supports FISMA, HSPD-20, HSPD-12 and Teleworking requirements.
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Everything over IP
Juniper's Circuit-to-Packet (CTP) products provide the advanced technology and features required to reliably transport legacy TDM and other circuit-based applications across next-generation IP networks. These products deliver the field-proven flexibility, performance and reliability that federal government applications require — from those deployed by first responders to military communications.
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WAN Acceleration
Juniper helps federal government organizations define and adopt a broad-based approach to WAN optimization that accelerates the widest cross section of their business applications, improves the flexibility of their delivery systems and provides the necessary monitoring and reporting to track application performance.
Applications
| Topics | Description |
|---|---|
| Application Acceleration | Accelerate and optimize application delivery from central data centers over end-to-end connections to reduce delay and to send/receive more traffic over constrained bandwidth links. |
| Branch Office | Ensure extended business operations at branch and remote sites by fully protecting internal systems and assuring the usability and availability of centralized applications. |
| Data Centers | Protect government application investments and consolidate servers into fewer, larger data centers with integrated capabilities that defend, secure, extend and accelerate applications. |
| Remote Users | Enable remote and mobile users to securely access, authenticate and then use centralized applications based on end-point host checks and approved access levels for particular locations and devices. |
| Security | Protect classified information and computing resources with layered security functions that mitigate emergent threats and control network access from both outside and within your network. |
| Voice over IP | Ensure that the network infrastructure is ready to support high-quality voice and video, protecting it against threats and misuse while assuring performance and availability. |
| VPNs and WAN Evolution | Migrate to secure, low-cost, converged, wide-area networks by leveraging IP/MPLS, IPSec and SSL VPN along with platforms to accelerate applications. |
| Microsoft Applications | The Juniper Networks Microsoft Resource Center provides demos, literature, case studies and tools for optimizing the performance of centralized Microsoft applications. Find Juniper solutions to specific issues related to Microsoft applications and protocols including: Exchange, WAFS/File Services, SharePoint and secure Microsoft applications. |
Customer Case Studies & Press
- Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN)
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Juniper Networks and MCI build the next-generation, MPLS-based network for the Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) to support the future of the Department of Defense Research and Engineering Community. - ESnet
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Driving DOE Collaborative Science with Juniper Networks. - U.S. Department of Labor
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U.S. Department of Labor.
Press Announcements
- Juniper Networks Gateway Platforms Earn Federal Information Processing Certification for Government Procurement Security Features
- Juniper Networks Report Describes IPv6 Security Issues & Transition Strategies for U.S. Government Agencies
- Juniper Networks Teams with Lockheed Martin on IPv6 Transition Pilot Program
- Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman TSAT Team Announces Partnership with Juniper Networks
- Survey of U.S. Government Agencies Reveals Telework as Essential to Continuity of Operations and Emergency Preparedness
- Juniper Networks Releases "IPv6 Routing and Addressing" Report to Aid U.S. Government Agencies' Transition to IPv6
- Juniper Networks and Microsoft Announce Unified Access Control and Network Access Protection to Interoperate
- Juniper Networks Named "Top Federal Program of the Year" by Government VAR Magazine
- Juniper Networks Routers First To Be Certified IPv6 Capable By Department Of Defense
- Juniper Networks SSL VPN Solutions Achieve UK Government Certification to Verify Security Capability
- Juniper Networks Enterprise Products Receive Searchnetworking.com "2007 Product Leadership Awards"
Literature
Brochure
- Juniper Networks Solution Portfolio for Public Sector Network Security
PDF 630KB - Juniper Networks Solution Portfolio for Public Sector Network Infrastructure
PDF 612KB - Helping Government Agencies Successfully Migrate from Circuit and TDM to IP
PDF 1.23MB - Juniper Networks Solution Portfolio for Public Sector Organizations
308 KB - IA Security Solutions Compliance Overview: Juniper Networks Meeting Government Security Certifications
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White Papers
- WAN Optimization Best Practices for Government Agencies
998 KB - Meeting Federal Government Compliance Requirements
588 KB - Enabling E-Government Initiatives
179 KB - Enabling the Next Generation of Networking with End-to-End IPv6
523 KB - Government Network Convergence: Expanding the Benefits of Your IP Network
442 KB - Juniper Network's Layered Security Solution
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Updated November 2006 with added UTM security capabilities and WAN connectivity. The paper describes the challenges that IT departments face in protecting resources from threats originating internally or externally, from employees and non-employees. It then concludes with a discussion of how the Juniper Networks Layered Security solution addresses these challenges. - Ensuring Business Continuity in Government: Juniper Networks Secure Access SSL/VPN Solution
674 KB - IPSec and SSL VPN Decision Criteria: A Technology White Paper by Juniper Networks
636 KB - Comparison of Firewall, Intrusion Prevention and Antivirus Technologies
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Compares firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and gateway antivirus systems, and explains the need to deploy multiple layers of security to protect networks against worms, viruses and other network attacks. - 10 Easy Steps to Secure Teleworking
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White paper on how Juniper Networks enables federal telework programs.
Solution Briefs/Notes
- Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management Solutions - Public Sector
666 KB - Juniper Networks Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Solution
363 KB - Working Through an Outbreak: Pandemic Flu Planning and Continuity of Operations
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Scott Krien's testimony at a hearing to the Committee on Government Reform

