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Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd.
Juniper Networks, K.K.

Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. (hereafter referred to as DIS: Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka; President: Hiroyuki Matsumoto) has concluded a distributorship agreement with Juniper Networks, K.K. (hereafter referred to as Juniper Networks: Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Tomohiro Furuya) to market Mist Systems products in Japan. In line with the agreement, DIS will strengthen the sales system of the cloud-managed wireless LAN system supplied by Mist Systems, Inc., which Juniper Networks acquired in April 2019, as well as the traditional networking and security products of Juniper Networks; thereby accelerating the promotion of “AI-driven enterprise”, which streamlines companies' network operations and maximizes the end-user experience.

DIS has been marketing network and other products of Juniper Networks as one of our authorized distributors. Now, we can offer total solutions involving Juniper Networks, as we have added Mist System wireless LAN products to our product portfolio. We are now in a position to offer Mist System products  to a wide variety of organizations, including companies, local governments, and educational institutes across the country, through our community-based sales system, including roughly 90 sales bases and 19,000 dealers nationwide.

Mist Systems' cloud-managed wireless LAN system detects indications of system failure, and creates a high-quality Wi-Fi environment with stable operation, due to its machine learning capability, in addition to advantages such as low introduction cost and easy management of multiple bases. At the same time, it provides services that utilize location information easily and promptly with the help of its virtual beacon function.

On the occasion of this announcement, Tomoyuki Komine, Director, General Manager of Procurement & Sales Promotion Division of Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. states, “Mist Systems' wireless LAN system provides users with optimal connectability based on its AI capability. At the same time, it eases the difficulties users face in the event  of system failure, one of the challenges involved in wireless LAN operation, and detects indications of such failure, making it possible for customers to construct the optimal Wi-Fi environment on whatever scale desired. The agreement on the distribution of Mist Systems products enables us to provide our customers across the country with an AI-based, completely cloud-managed wireless LAN environment.”

Tomohiro Furuya, President of Juniper Networks K.K. states, “Through the acquisition of Mist Systems, we are promoting “AI-driven enterprise” that is able to construct and operate AI-based networks, from wireless LAN to wired LAN, WAN, and security. By strengthening our partnership with DIS, we are very pleased to provide companies of all sizes, across the country, with AI-driven cloud wireless LAN, characterized by excellent quality and stability.”