Juniper Networks and Amdocs Showcase Joint Virtualized Customer Premises Equipment Solution at Mobile World Congress

Companies to Demonstrate Jointly Developed NFV-based Solution Enabling Service Providers to Rapidly Deliver a Range of Enterprise Services

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MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona - March 1, 2015 - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the leader in network innovation, and Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience solutions, will showcase an automated virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution to meet enterprise customer demands for new, user-defined services here at Mobile World Congress. The jointly developed offering will be demonstrated at Amdocs' booth (Hall 3, Booth 3G10).

Available today, the vCPE solution, which leverages Juniper Networks® vMX router and vSRX firewall to deliver full-featured capabilities and industry-leading performance as a virtual function, enables service providers to quickly introduce a broad set of services for their enterprise customers using virtual CPE. In addition, the joint offering also utilizes Juniper Networks Contrail™ Networking, an open SDN solution for cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV).

The Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator allows provisioning and rapid fulfillment of both virtual and physical network functions services. As part of the joint offering, Juniper and Amdocs are also providing a user portal for self-service selection, a service catalog and service creation capability, and a wide range of delivery and managed services options to help service providers transition to an IT cloud operating model.

"Service providers recognize the business value of software-powered service chaining as they seek to make their networks more dynamic and better able to adapt to rapid change," said Gabriel Brown, senior analyst at Heavy Reading. "Virtual CPE is one of the primary use-cases for NFV and there is clear evidence that service providers will invest in the technology if they have the software solutions they need to achieve true service agility."

"Together Amdocs and Juniper Networks are delivering an end-to-end virtualized service offering that enables service providers to achieve the unprecedented agility of cloud providers and accelerate the provisioning of a wide range of virtual enterprise services, without sacrificing the performance and scalability of their network," said Mike Marcellin, senior vice president of marketing and strategy at Juniper Networks. "By integrating Juniper's virtual routing and security platforms through open interfaces and leveraging the powerful service chaining that Contrail brings, Amdocs is able to seamlessly integrate physical and virtualized network functions into a platform for service delivery."

"Service providers around the world are embracing network virtualization to lower costs as well as to develop an agile platform to create new revenue opportunities," said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. "This vCPE solution from Juniper and Amdocs provides a logical starting point for service providers on their journey to a virtualized environment - enabling programmable service chains that bring together the physical and virtual networks. It leverages the strengths of both companies and delivers an end-to-end, extensible automated solution that can be deployed right now. Amdocs' heritage of service management and orchestration gives us a unique understanding of the communications market."

About Juniper Networks
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About Amdocs
For more than 30 years, Amdocs has ensured service providers' success and embraced their biggest challenges. To win in the connected world, service providers rely on Amdocs to simplify the customer experience, harness the data explosion, stay ahead with new services and improve operational efficiency. The global company uniquely combines a market-leading BSS, OSS and network control and optimization product portfolio with value-driven professional services and managed services operations. With revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2014, Amdocs and its more than 22,000 employees serve customers in over 80 countries.

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Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, 2015.

Media Contacts:
Sara Preto
Fusion PR for Amdocs
Tel: +1-212-651-4214
E-Mail: sara.preto@fusionpr.com

Jennifer Miu
Juniper Networks
Tel: +1-408-936-6438
E-Mail: jmiu@juniper.net

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