NEW DELHI, INDIA: Juniper Networks announced its network infrastructure for the distributed enterprise, including new additions to the SRX series services gateways and a new line of EX series Ethernet switches.

SRX240 can deliver up to five times the security performance for half the cost of competitive alternatives and the EX series delivers gigabit access connectivity at a lower list price than equivalent devices. Offered as part of the Juniper Networks distributed enterprise solutions with the Network and Security Manager (NSM) and JUNOS software, customers can design and deploy efficient networks that provide industry leading performance and security at lower operational costs across locations of all sizes.

Andrew Braunberg, research director—Enterprise Security and Networks, Current Analysis, says: “Organizations must deliver a complete set of business services to their geographically dispersed workforce without limiting options, increasing risk or degrading the user experience."

SRX series services gateways
The four new additions to the SRX series family are based on dynamic services architecture, an extensible approach that simultaneously scales integrated services and network capacity to reduce the escalating demands and risks placed on the network.

These new products can support a complete suite of unified threat management and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect the network from the latest content borne threats. Select SRX models feature hardware-based content security acceleration for high-performance inline anti-virus and intrusion prevention services (IPS) as well as Power over Ethernet (PoE) and standards-based SIP voice gateway capability.

Four models are available: the SRX100 with a variety of fixed form-factor options; the SRX210 with single-slot modularity; the SRX240 with 16 on board Gbps Ethernet ports and four expansion slots; and the SRX650 with eight expansion slots for WAN/LAN interfaces, available redundant power supplies and available redundant services and routing engines.

All models have integrated security, high availability and routing along with support for 3G wireless. Firewall/IPS performance ranges from 600/50 to 7000/900Mbps and list prices start at $699.

New EX line of Ethernet switches
The new EX2200 line of fixed-configuration Ethernet switches offers an economical, plug-and-play, high-performance, low-power solution for access-layer deployments in branch offices and campus networks consuming less that 2W per port at a lower price than competitive Fast Ethernet enterprise access switches.
Featuring JUNOS software-based layer 2 and layer 3 switching capabilities, the EX2200 Ethernet switches satisfy the access connectivity requirements of today’s high-performance businesses.

Four models are available: the EX2200-24T-4G and EX2200-48T-4G offer 24 and 48 10/100/1000BASE-T ports respectively, while the EX2200-24P-4G and EX2200-48P-4G offer similar configurations with full IEEE 802.3af PoE to support converged network devices such as telephones, video cameras and wireless LAN access points.

The distributed enterprise solutions work collaboratively with Juniper’s recently announced adaptive threat management solutions and unified access control (UAC) solutions. Adaptive threat management including NSM and the STRM series security threat response manager delivers threat defense, network-wide visibility and control, unified device and policy management, and centralized automation.

UAC solutions include the IC series unified access control appliances with the UAC agent and agent-less mode, and leverage the EX series (and existing vendor-agnostic 802.1X access points and switches) as well as the SSG series secure services gateway and SRX Series as enforcement points.

SRX210 is 1,099, the SRX240 is $2,999 and the SRX650 is $16,000. The new SRX100 is expected to be available in 3Q09 with a starting list price of $699. The new EX2200 line is expected to be available in 1Q10 with a starting list price of $2,400.