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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.

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Juniper's new firewall burns the competition

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Miller explained that the power of the basic hardware chassis can be increased by adding new line cards for throughput and for processing power, increasing the power of the one device.

"You add new cards to add more processing as you need it, so you build the box out over time. It is very different to how our competitors do it. They add new line cards to add new instances of firewalls, we add new cards to make the one firewall bigger and faster."

Juniper claims that as businesses continue to massively scale their networks to support advanced applications and services, they can no longer afford the service integration and performance tradeoffs associated with administering and managing legacy network infrastructure.

"Innovative businesses require a dynamic network infrastructure that is fast, reliable and secure, and that paves the path toward seizing new opportunities. These challenges include keeping pace with an escalating and evolving security threat landscape, which remains a leading source of network downtime and slow service; contending with an inability to quickly scale networks to deliver applications and support thousands to millions of users; and the continuing operational inefficiencies that plague legacy network infrastructure, including the rising cost, complexity and inability to adapt to changing requirements.

Juniper quotes Abner Germanow, director, enterprise networks for IDC, saying "Racks of service specific appliances and blades along with a multitude of operating systems and management interfaces create a level of network complexity that introduces latency and inhibits new service deployments. A service architecture that enables businesses to scale in all dimensions dynamically with virtually 'any' service will quickly meet the business requirements and streamline investment decisions."

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