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Telecommunications Juniper's new firewall burns the competition | Juniper's new firewall burns the competition |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 16 September 2008 | |
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Miller told iTWire that the new architecture represented the culmination of four years work integrating the ScreenOS of Juniper's 2004 acquisition of security technology company, NetScreen, with its own Junos OS, the modular operating system that is used across every Juniper product - a level of consistency that the company claims gives its significant advantages over competitors. "When we bought NetScreen in 2004 we saw a lot of promise in their technology and while we have been integrating it with Junos in lower end products for some time, finally in 2008 we have achieved the ultimate goal of combining a high end routing platform with the strength and security of the NetScreen acquisition," Miller said. According to Miller the new products will appeal to large enterprises, government and services provider customers. "Large enterprise are looking to consolidate their data centres and are very conscious of power and space requirements. Government is also looking to consolidate into larger data centres, and service providers will love it because at the end of the day their data centre is their profit centre." Juniper has named Hitachi Systems and Services and the University of Frankfurt as initial customers, and Miller said the product was on trial with financial services companies and service providers in Australia. According to Juniper, the Dynamic Services Architecture is "an extensible design that...enables fast, reliable and secure access to applications and services from a single network architecture that runs on a single operating system managed by a single management framework, which can reduce the total cost of ownership." CONTINUED |
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