Sources have it that Juniper is looking to acquire a WLAN networking company to help beef up its profile in the wireless networking space, according to a report on FT.com. The paper reports that Juniper is eyeing Aruba or Meru as possible suitors. Juniper has been gradually building up its enterprise aresenal after 2004’s multibillion dollar acquisition of VPN and firewall leader NetScreen technologies, notes Jim Duffy in his story for Network World. The ownership of a WLAN player would also round out Juniper as a formidable competitor to Cisco, which saw another competitor HP ProCurve pocket Colubris Networks just last month.
But is Meru up for sale? This is what Meru Networks VP of Strategic Marketing Rachna Alhawat said to Network World Wireless newsletter author Joanie Wexler in her story about the next steps for the WLAN companies that are still independent: “What’s happening in WLANs now is] similar to what happened with Gigabit Ethernet in the mid to late ’90s. The ones that had a clearly differentiated technology survived on their own. From day one we’ve been focused on technology. We weren’t built to be bought, but we’re always open to different options.”
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