Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today unveiled new security line cards for its market leading SRX5600 and 5800 Series Services Gateway that significantly improves performance and reliability for LTE mobile network operators. The new Juniper SRX line cards are the industry’s only high-end security solutions that can provide mobile operators with zero downtime performance upgrades and scale to accommodate the exponential growth of network throughput. As mobile operators shift to all IP-based networks, their infrastructures become increasingly exposed to advanced threats designed to steal information or impact service availability. Concurrently, the demand for online video and other services accessed through mobile devices will increase the amount of data traversing these networks 12 fold by 2018 according to the latest mobility report from Ericsson. These industry trends require mobile operators to deploy high performance security solutions with carrier-grade reliability and scalability to confidently provide access to sensitive information, traditionally not available on mobile devices.
Highlights:
Juniper Networks is introducing new products and enhancements that provide next-generation security to protect against the biggest threats to data centers.
· Always-on, carrier-grade reliability – The SRX line cards provide the only high-end security solution to deliver zero downtime performance upgrades by offering both in-service software and hardware upgrades. This functionality reduces the need for planned downtime, enabling service providers to deliver uninterrupted service. Redundant components ensure carrier class service levels are maintained.
· Simplicity and scalability at the speed of LTE –The SRX Series collapses the security gateway, firewall, switching, and routing layers onto a single platform, reducing operating expense and network complexity. The new line cards support up to 100 million concurrent sessions and up to 200 Gbps of firewall throughput with a single SRX Services Gateway.
· Investment protection – Juniper Networks new SRX line cards are compatible with current cards and chassis. Existing Juniper customers can use the same SRX 5000 series chassis extending current investments while scaling to meet customer demands.
· Mobile-specific filters – The SRX was developed to be natively aware of mobile-specific protocols such as GTP and LTE-SCTP resulting in firewall awareness to block the proliferation of attacks leveraging or embedded in such protocols.
Industry Analyst Quote:
“Juniper Networks is a proven leader in delivering high performance firewalls to service providers and large enterprise markets. Infonetics Research has ranked Juniper as the global leader in high end firewalls since the beginning of 2009. The new SRX5600 and SRX5800 line cards deliver mobile operators the carrier-grade capabilities and performance scalability needed to secure LTE deployments.”
- Jeff Wilson, principal analyst, Infonetics Research
Partner Quote:
“Security is a critical ingredient in Nokia Siemens Networks’ mobile portfolio as LTE networks expand. LTE requires a massive bandwidth increase and additional security requirements, so we need to be able to offer customers an effective solution that could scale on-demand and deliver carrier-grade reliability to ensure always-on service for many millions of subscribers. The Nokia Siemens Networks’ market leadership in mobile security, combined with the inherent OpEx benefits and scalability realized with the SRX5800, will help us to offer an efficient and state of the art Security solution to our customers as they roll out their LTE services.”
- Dror Nemirovsky, head of Packet Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks
Juniper Executive Quote:
“The massive influx of traffic that service providers face as they migrate to all IP-based LTE networks requires security technologies that provide strong protection without adversely impacting performance. Juniper’s new SRX 5000 series line cards offer unprecedented scale for firewall, VPN and other security services, zero downtime for hardware and software upgrades and the ability for our existing customers to protect their current investment.”
- Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks
Additional Resources:
· Rethinking LTE Networks blog by Mike Marcellin
· About SRX5600 and 5800 Series Services Gateways
· Juniper Networks Security Homepage
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.
Highlights:
Juniper Networks is introducing new products and enhancements that provide next-generation security to protect against the biggest threats to data centers.
· Always-on, carrier-grade reliability – The SRX line cards provide the only high-end security solution to deliver zero downtime performance upgrades by offering both in-service software and hardware upgrades. This functionality reduces the need for planned downtime, enabling service providers to deliver uninterrupted service. Redundant components ensure carrier class service levels are maintained.
· Simplicity and scalability at the speed of LTE –The SRX Series collapses the security gateway, firewall, switching, and routing layers onto a single platform, reducing operating expense and network complexity. The new line cards support up to 100 million concurrent sessions and up to 200 Gbps of firewall throughput with a single SRX Services Gateway.
· Investment protection – Juniper Networks new SRX line cards are compatible with current cards and chassis. Existing Juniper customers can use the same SRX 5000 series chassis extending current investments while scaling to meet customer demands.
· Mobile-specific filters – The SRX was developed to be natively aware of mobile-specific protocols such as GTP and LTE-SCTP resulting in firewall awareness to block the proliferation of attacks leveraging or embedded in such protocols.
Industry Analyst Quote:
“Juniper Networks is a proven leader in delivering high performance firewalls to service providers and large enterprise markets. Infonetics Research has ranked Juniper as the global leader in high end firewalls since the beginning of 2009. The new SRX5600 and SRX5800 line cards deliver mobile operators the carrier-grade capabilities and performance scalability needed to secure LTE deployments.”
- Jeff Wilson, principal analyst, Infonetics Research
Partner Quote:
“Security is a critical ingredient in Nokia Siemens Networks’ mobile portfolio as LTE networks expand. LTE requires a massive bandwidth increase and additional security requirements, so we need to be able to offer customers an effective solution that could scale on-demand and deliver carrier-grade reliability to ensure always-on service for many millions of subscribers. The Nokia Siemens Networks’ market leadership in mobile security, combined with the inherent OpEx benefits and scalability realized with the SRX5800, will help us to offer an efficient and state of the art Security solution to our customers as they roll out their LTE services.”
- Dror Nemirovsky, head of Packet Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks
Juniper Executive Quote:
“The massive influx of traffic that service providers face as they migrate to all IP-based LTE networks requires security technologies that provide strong protection without adversely impacting performance. Juniper’s new SRX 5000 series line cards offer unprecedented scale for firewall, VPN and other security services, zero downtime for hardware and software upgrades and the ability for our existing customers to protect their current investment.”
- Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks
Additional Resources:
· Rethinking LTE Networks blog by Mike Marcellin
· About SRX5600 and 5800 Series Services Gateways
· Juniper Networks Security Homepage
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and Facebook.
