Flextronics (and Juniper Networks Inc. on July 19 announced a global outsourcing relationship whereby Flextronics will provide a portion of new product introduction, manufacturing, and logistics services on a worldwide basis for Juniper's security and networking products.
"Today's announcement underscores the advantages that Flextronics provides to leading OEMs. A key benefit for Juniper is our unique ability to seamlessly and efficiently transfer large-scale, complex products to low-cost regions," said Michael Clarke, president of Flextronics' Infrastructure segment. "Additionally, our market segment approach enables us to focus resources specific to Juniper's particular market need."
"We're excited about our partnership with Flextronics," said Kevin Q. Smith, vice president, operations, Juniper Networks. "Juniper is committed to partnering with industry-leading organizations like Flextronics, as it continues to grow and expand its worldwide footprint. We are impressed with the breadth and depth of the global vertically integrated services offered by Flextronics and look forward to working with them to ensure we continue to maintain our momentum in the global market."
Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company's purpose-built, high-performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks' portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding networks.
Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile OEMs. With fiscal year 2006 revenues from continuing operations of US$15.3 billion, Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in over 30 countries on five continents. This global presence provides design and engineering solutions that are combined with core electronics manufacturing and logistics services, and vertically integrated with components technologies, to optimize customer operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market.
