Security manufacturer Juniper to bring MIPS support for FreeBSD

When it comes to new features in an open source operating system, these features come from the community of developers who are contributors to a number of business companies. The latest FreeBSD 8.0 operating system has benefited from both contributions.

Especially in the latest FreeBSD 8.0, Juniper (NYSE: JNPR) has contributed to the experimental MIPS support by the renowned network manufacturer. MIPS is an important RISC chip architecture, widely used embedded devices, especially in consumer electronics network equipment market.

"Juniper is a longtime supporter of open networks, including open standards in the Web, open APIs in our products," said Mike Bushong, director of Juniper Network product management. "Returning to the community, contributing FreeBSD is just one way of working, We have been serving for over 10 years. "

Juniper participation in FreeBSD, not limited to mips,juniper Junos operating system kernel originated from Freebsd,junos now applies to almost all Juniper network products, but also authorized to third-party vendors, including Juniper OEM to Dell and IBM.

Although Juniper does not publish FreeBSD directly in their commercial products, Junos will continue to benefit from FreeBSD, as described in Bushong, and juniper upgrades the operating system every 90 days to 1998 years.

"Today, we still use FreeBSD as our underlying operating system," Bushong said, "and FreeBSD has proven to be very flexible in the innovation of the manufacturer, which is very reliable, outstanding and scalable in the networked world."

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