Juniper
Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation,
today announced new hardware for its Juniper
Networks® SRX5800 Services Gateway that will deliver unprecedented
performance necessary to secure traffic on high speed networks. These
new improvements will increase available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall
throughput up to 2 Terabits per second (2 Tbps), to empower service
providers and large enterprises to minimize the potential for security
bottlenecks as they manage increased and unpredictable demands for
bandwidth placed on their networks.
Amid continued advancements in the threat landscape and the explosion of
new Internet connected devices, service providers and large enterprises
are facing the increasingly complex task of providing more effective
security protections while meeting greater performance demands.
Organizations must have both high speed and performance to prevent
attacks, while also ensuring threat data can quickly inform firewall
policies and enforcement points across the network. A recent survey
conducted by Infonetics Research reinforces these customer requirements
by reporting performance increases that don’t come at the expense of
security efficacy and management/policy tools, and access to real-time
threat data top the list of new investment drivers.(1)
With a comprehensive next-generation firewall and threat protection
portfolio, Juniper Networks helps
companies block attacks and keep their networks and content secure
by combining record throughput, reliability and a rich set of security
features, including its next generation firewall, intrusion prevention
system (IPS) and unified threat management (UTM).
News Highlights
Juniper Networks is introducing new hardware for the SRX5800 Services
Gateway including third-generation input/output cards (IOC3), an
enhanced midplane chassis and third-generation system control boards
(SCB3). These enhancements will provide customers a highly scalable and
reliable system that delivers the speed, infrastructure and applications
to protect users from current and future threats without sacrificing
performance of high speed service provider and enterprise networks.
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Unparalleled Performance Advancements:
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The combination of IOC3 cards, SCB3 boards, an enhanced midplane
chassis, and application of Express
Path software allows the SRX5800 Services Gateway to deliver a
leading edge security platform capable of surpassing 2 Tbps
throughput.
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Each IOC3 line card supports two packet forwarding engines (PFE),
a high density configuration of 2x100GbE and 4x10GbE high speed
interfaces. Additionally, it delivers 240Gbps bandwidth and 2X
bandwidth increase over the prior hardware card.
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While the IOC3 cards will be available in a new, enhanced SRX
chassis, they may also be deployed in the current SRX chassis and
in mixed configurations, with existing IOC2 cards and service
processing cards (SPC). These suit a variety of customer
configurations, optimizing both the performance and scale required
and providing investment protection as companies scale their
infrastructure.
Supporting Quotes
“As the threat landscape continues to evolve and a variety of devices
increasingly flood the network, companies are forced to not only meet
network performance demands but also ensure they have efficient, fast
and scalable protection in place. With Juniper’s latest performance
advancements, the company is elevating industry standards and empowering
businesses to accelerate time to enforcement with the fastest available
throughput on the market today.”
- Christofer Hoff, vice
president and security chief technology officer, Juniper Development and
Innovation, Juniper Networks
“We are a pioneer in the world of interactive entertainment software and
an industry leader in multiplayer online games. We strive to continue
redefining our genre with new innovative titles and to do this we need a
network that our gamers can trust. We selected Juniper Networks’ SRX5800
and SRX5400 Services Gateways to protect our high-performance network.
With the SRX, we can continue to expand and grow our users with
continuous uptime, performance and speed that the SRX Series Services
Gateways always deliver.”
- JaeKwang Park, senior manager, IT
operation, Nexon Korea
“At MCB Bank, our business is our customers and we value ourselves on
delivering a high- performance, reliable and most importantly a secure
network with continued uptime. We have worked with Juniper Networks over
the years which transpired into our confidence that Juniper is the right
partner for us; enabling us to have one of the largest network
infrastructures in Pakistan’s financial sector. By implementing the SRX
Series Services Gateways in our data center, we can protect our
customers’ sensitive data from threats while continuing to deliver new
services with security and more quickly, resulting in optimization of
operations and simplifying the management of our systems.”
- Imtiaz
Mahmood, chief information officer, MCB Bank
“At ESDS Software, we have strict requirements for securing our data
centers and cloud environments from threats. We needed a solution that
would keep us protected, but not sacrifice the speed of our network and
ensure efficient business operations. Juniper Networks’ SRX has allowed
us to deliver secure applications quickly to our customers and it
provides us with the flexibility needed for cloud hosting. The SRX helps
us meet our customer requirements and allows us to operate more
effectively, which gives us a competitive edge against other cloud
hosting providers in our space.”
- Piyush Somani, managing
director, ESDS Software
“Performance never goes out of style when it comes to security with more
and more devices, traffic and applications on the network. When you
think of Juniper, you think of high performance.”
- Jon Oltsik,
senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Availability
The new product enhancements will be available during the first half of
2015.
Additional Resources
About Juniper Networks
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switching and security. From the network core down to consumer devices,
Juniper Networks’ innovations in software, silicon and systems transform
the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can
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(1) Data Center Security Strategies and Vendor Leadership
North American Enterprise Survey, Infonetics Research, March 25, 2015
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things, statements concerning Juniper Networks' prospects, product
availability, future products and performance and benefits to customers.
Actual results or events could differ materially from those anticipated
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