SMS Data Products Group Announces Elite Partner Status with Juniper Networks

McLean, VA | October 25, 2005 -- SMS Data Products Group, Inc., a leading enterprise network services firm, announced that it is now certified as an Elite Partner with Juniper Networks.

SMS has been working with Juniper for over five years, and the two companies have teamed up on many opportunities with organizations such as the National Weather Service, USDA, Office of the Secretary of Defense and CCSP, as well as other DoD and Civilian Government Agencies. The SMS/Juniper team specializes in providing highly-scalable networks to its Government customers.

Luis Laranjeira, VP of Business Development for SMS Data Products Group, Inc., commented, "Juniper’s dedication to its partners sets a new threshold for the vendor community.” Mr. Laranjeira then went on to explain that “Juniper’s partner registration program and dedication to training SMS’s sales and engineering staff ensures that our collective customers experience the highest class of engineering solutions."

Juniper’s state-of-the-art, best of breed products, combined with best-in-class engineering services from SMS, provide the customers with a world class solution.

About SMS

SMS Data Products Group, Inc., headquartered in McLean, Virginia is a world-class network services company. As an independent network solutions provider, we design, build and support enterprise network architectures, using the best technologies available today, suited to our customers' unique requirements. Our customers look to SMS as a single source for choosing and implementing the best IT solutions. The Company was founded in 1976 and it has integration facilities in Sterling, Virginia.

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SMS Data Products Group, Inc products and services are under GSA Contract number GS-35F-3267D. SMS may be contacted at 800-331-1767 and www.sms.com.