Company 128 Technology founded in 2014 developed the platform of "virtual routers" which allows to connect geographically remote offices, data centers and cloud resources. For this purpose physical routers were traditionally used; platform 128 Technology allows to virtualize them that, in turn, gives the chance to reduce and operating expenses, and to simplify managerial transactions.
History
2020: Acquisition by Juniper Networks company
The Juniper Networks company purchases for nearly half a billion dollars company 128 Technology, the producer of a software platform for corporate networks. It became known on October 20, 2020.
According to developers, the platform allows to optimize as much as possible data routing in corporate networks that also positively affects functioning of network applications - and data security as the platform proceeds from a paradigm of "zero trust": the virtual router ciphers all traffic, regulates authorization and processes only those network requests which completely correspond to security policy of the company; all the rest is cut.
Juniper counted that profitability of platform 128 Technology exceeds a similar indicator of traditional solutions based on SD-WAN for 40-75%, depending on a situation.
Sredstav security and optimization of 128 Technology it is going to integrate with the Juniper Mist AI platform which, by the way, the company also purchased: in 2019 405 million dollars were paid for it. Mist is intended for optimization of functionality of corporate networks - wire and wireless for what machine learning technologies are used.
 | Integration of optimization appliances and data protection is quite logical for the supplier of network technologies, as well as acquisition of the advanced developments allowing to replace traditional hardware routers - a software platform. Virtualization of network routers has a number of advantages over use of hardware, security - not the last of their number. Already because it is simpler to correct errors in completely software environment, than to update firmwares at the same time for thousands of hardware devices, believes Anastasia Melnikova, the information security expert of SEC Consult Services company.
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The deal will have to be closed by the end of January, 2021.
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