Juniper launches data centre security gateway

BANGALORE, INDIA: Juniper Networks announced the availability of SRX1400, its latest SRX product line.

The SRX1400 is a consolidated security services gateway for securing small to mid-size enterprise, service provider and mobile operator data centre environments. 

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“Not only does the SRX1400 help companies migrate their mid-size data centres to 10Gbps, but it also helps them reduce costs in the process,” said Sridhar Sarathy, VP — India Operations, Juniper Networks India. “The SRX1400 consolidates multiple security functions, including our new AppSecure application security capabilities, on a single services gateway, providing the flexibility to scale bandwidth and services in the future.”

The company claims that with SRX1400 mobile service providers can deliver security to their core networks and it protects against a variety of attacks and unauthorized access on critical infrastructure including the internet connection on the Gi interface, roaming exchanges and signaling networks.

It provides 1 and 10 GbE port density built-in and with room for expansion. Moreover, the modular design of the SRX1400 uses interchangeable cards from the SRX3000 line providing investment protection and simplifying sparing logistics.

“We are excited to see the expansion of the data centre SRX product line with the introduction of SRX1400,” said Bryan Miles, director, networking at Station Casinos. “The security services scale in a small form factor is a great fit for our smaller data centre deployments, and the common policy, OS and hardware modules with our installed base of SRX 3K’s simplifies our operations and lowers our cost.”

As per the company, the SRX1400 consolidates multiple security services and functions into one compact system by integrating the configuration, security policy and device management of these services within the Junos operating system.

Data centre, enterprise and service provider security services include: inspection of IPv4, IPv6, Streams Control Transmission Protocol, IPsec VPN, SSL decryption, IP and GTP hardware assisted Quality of Service, dynamic and virtual routing, AppSecure, Network Address Translation and application level gateways for IPv4 and v6, SCTP and GTP protocols.

The SRX 1400 is available now and price starts at $30K.