Juniper debuts all-encompassing security solution

Stuart Corner
Monday, 09 March 2009 18:04

IT Industry - Market

The Adaptive Threat Management Solution is based on Juniper's Dynamic Services Architecture, unveiled last September with the launch of the SRX5000 series of multifunction security devices. They incorporate firewall, routing, intrusion detection and prevention and with a firewall throughput of 120Gbps, were claimed to be six times that of its nearest competitor.

The Dynamic Services Architecture and the new Adaptive Threat Management Solutions represent 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.

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."

The SRX is very much the core of the new security offering and today's announcement was accompanied by the launch of new smaller scale version of this product, the SRX3000 series. There are two initial products: the SRX3600 that can support 30Gbps of stateful firewall, up to 10Gbps of VPN, 10Gbps of IPS, and 175,000 new connections per second. The SRX3400 can support 20Gbps of stateful firewall, up to 6Gbps of VPN, 6Gbps of IPS, and 175,000 new connections per second.