Juniper Networks, Inc. announced that Yahoo Japan Corporation has deployed a Juniper Networks(R) QFX3000-M QFabric(TM) System at its new environmentally friendly "Shirakawa Data Center." It is a large-scale IT data center that covers the Tokyo metropolitan area and East Japan. It now operates a single-layer network fabric based on Juniper Networks QFabric technology to deliver more cost-effective, low-latency performance and linear scalability. The Juniper Networks QFX3000-M QFabric System, deployed at the Shirakawa Data Center, supports up to 768 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) with low latency, providing YAHOO! Japan customers with a high-quality online experience, no matter where they are. As it scales data center operations at Shirakawa, YAHOO! Japan can easily upgrade to a QFabric QFX3000-G QFabric System, which can deliver even higher performance and functionality by supporting up to 6,144 10GbE ports as a single switch. Juniper Networks MX960 3D Universal Edge Router is also implemented at the site, providing YAHOO! Japan with unmatched flexibility and reliability to support advanced services.

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Relay IP has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Sprint Nextel Corporation, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Bloomberg L.P., Hitachi Cable America, D-Link Corporation, Avaya, Hewlett-Packard Company, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, TIBCO Software, BT Group, SAVVIS Inc., Zhone Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Allied Telesis, and Adtran (the "Defendants"). Relay is asserting infringement related to U.S. Patent number 5,331,637, entitled Multicast Routing Using Core Based Trees. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants have infringed, and continue to infringe, the claims of the patent in suit by using the accused IP Multicast systems and methods covered by the claims of the Relay patent.

Juniper Networks, Inc. introduced JunosV Contrail, a family of products which includes the JunosV Contrail Controller, an open, standards-based controller for software-defined networks. JunosV Contrail will reduce the time, cost and risk for customers to deliver new network and security services. With Juniper Networks(R) JunosV Contrail family of products, the network is no longer a roadblock to speed, scale and agility -- instead, it delivers an unparalleled ability to adapt to changing business needs. Built on intellectual property from Juniper's recent acquisition of Contrail Systems, JunosV Contrail family of products will deliver a virtual network solution that easily integrates into existing data centers to centralize control across different client IT architectures and multiple cloud platforms. The solution virtualizes the network to enable seamless automation and orchestration among private and public cloud environments, elastic management of IP-based network and security services, and a 'Big Data for Infrastructure' offering for enhanced analytics, diagnostics and reporting. The new Juniper Networks JunosV Contrail family of products together provides the following benefits: a quick and efficient way to deliver and manage networking as a service, by virtualizing the network for seamless automation and orchestration among private and public cloud environments. Elastic management of IP-based virtual network and security services, which enhances the efficiency and agility in how customers deploy and use network resources. API support to enable new virtualized services to automate and control the network. The ability to gather deep analytical information from across all aspects of the network, giving customers unprecedented visibility and clarity while dramatically simplifying operations and enabling faster and more informed decision making on network resource utilization. The JunosV Contrail family of products is scheduled to be available for purchase in the second half of 2013 under the Juniper Software Advantage licensing program. Building on Juniper's 4-step SDN roadmap, JunosV Contrail family of products will enable customers to continue to address one or all four steps of SDN -- regardless of the maturity of their networks.