Company type | Division |
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Industry | IT security, Computer software, Computer hardware |
Founded | 1997 |
Defunct | 2004 |
Fate | Acquired by Juniper Networks |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Ken Xie, CTO, CEO, and Co-Founder, Yan Ke, Co-Founder, Feng Deng, Co-Founder, Robert Thomas, CEO, Anson Chen, VP R&D, Nir Zuk, CTO |
Products | Network security and access solutions and appliances. |
Parent | Juniper Networks |
Website | www.juniper.net |
NetScreen Technologies was an American technology company that was acquired by Juniper Networks for US$4 billion stock for stock in 2004.[1][2]
NetScreen Technologies developed ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances that delivered high performance firewall, VPN and traffic shaping functionality to Internet data centers, e-business sites, broadband service providers and application service providers. NetScreen was the first firewall manufacturer to develop a gigabit-speed firewall, the NetScreen-1000.[3]