Juniper to expand Indian Excellence Center Date:   Thursday , January 06, 2011 California based network solutions vendor Juniper Networks plans to expand its India Excellence Center (IEC) by adding 750 seats with 450 equipment racks at a new site in Bangalore over the next two years. The new office will be located at Bangalore’s new Prestige Exora Business Park and is being developed in two phases. This expansion is part of Juniper’s plan to continue its expansion in India. The IEC participate in activities including hardware and software development, test engineering, field trials, program management, quality assurance, technical documentation and product line management. IEC also provides 12-hour-a-day global customer support covering all Juniper products and operates a Finance Shared Services Center, which delivers functions to Juniper Finance, an open network infrastructure that allows financial service organizations to keep up with business requirements in a rapidly changing environment, organizations across the world. “Any Product that Juniper ships today will have a substantial amount of its work done in India,” said dhar Sarathy, Managing Director of IEC, Juniper Networks. Currently their India Excellence Center (IEC) in Bangalore employs 1,800 staff and 300 development partners. “This expansion reflects our ongoing commitment to increasing the depth of experience and expertise in the India region, which is becoming increasingly important not just as a source of engineering talent but also as a fast-growing market for Juniper Networks,” said Sarathy.