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Security:
NetScreen Leads In Security
Appliance Market Share Growth
NetScreen Technologies Inc announced that an IDC report, entitled
"Worldwide
Quarterly Security Appliance Server Tracker," reveals that NetScreen was the
only security appliance vendor among the top 5 to grow worldwide factory
revenue market share year-over-year. NetScreen's 91 percent year-on-year
increase in factory revenue resulted in a market share gain of more than five
percentage points between Q3 2002 and Q3 2003.
Additionally, the report indicates that NetScreen took the lead position in
the security appliance market for products priced under $1,000 by gaining 2.1
percentage points in factory revenue market share between Q2 2003 and Q3 2003,
while the prior quarter's leader lost 4.8 percentage points. According to the
report, NetScreen also maintained its worldwide factory revenue security
appliance market share leadership positions in the $50,000 to $99,999 and over
$100,000 price-banded product segments for the third quarter of 2003.
IDC's categorization of the security appliance market includes firewall,
virtual private network (VPN), intrusion detection and other security
categories. NetScreen attributes its gains in the under $1,000 segment to the
great value offered by its purpose-built appliances for broad security
protection in enterprise remote and telecommuter environments, the
NetScreen-5GT, -5XT and -5XP, that integrate firewall, IPSec VPN, traffic
management, denial of service protection.
"NetScreen's success in the market demonstrates enterprise customers'
recognition of the value of NetScreen's easy-to-use, purpose-built appliances
that offer advanced security functionality as well as operational and cost
advantages for highly distributed environments," said David Flynn, vice
president of marketing at NetScreen. "These results underscore that our
products are meeting real customer needs from the core of their networks to
the perimeter and remote sites."
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