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Juniper Networks improves firewall throughput with hardware upgrade

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Juniper Networks has announced new hardware for its SRX5800 including third-generation input/output cards (IOC3), an enhanced mid-plane chassis and third-generation system control boards (SCB3).

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The upgrade improves the available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall throughput up to 2 Terabits per second (2 Tbps).

These enhancements will provide customers a highly scalable and reliable system that delivers the speed, infrastructure and applications to protect users from current and future threats without sacrificing performance of high speed service provider and enterprise networks, Juniper said.

Each IOC3 line card supports two packet forwarding engines (PFE), a high density configuration of 2x100 GbE and 4x10GbE high speed interfaces. Additionally, it delivers 240 Gbps bandwidth and 2X bandwidth increase over the prior hardware card.

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While the IOC3 cards will be available in a new, enhanced SRX chassis, they may also be deployed in the current SRX chassis and in mixed configurations, with existing IOC2 cards and service processing cards (SPC). These suit a variety of customer configurations, optimizing both the performance and scale, and investment protection as companies scale their infrastructure.

“As the threat landscape continues to evolve and a variety of devices increasingly flood the network, companies are forced to not only meet network performance demands but also ensure they have efficient, fast and scalable protection in place,” said Christofer Hoff, Vice President and Security Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks.

“At ESDS Software, we have strict requirements for securing our data centers and cloud environments. We needed a solution that would keep us protected, but not sacrifice the speed of our network and ensure efficient business operations. Juniper Networks’ SRX has allowed us to deliver secure applications quickly to our customers and it provides us with the flexibility needed for cloud hosting. The SRX helps us meet our customer requirements and allows us to operate more effectively, which gives us a competitive edge against other cloud hosting providers in our space,” asserted Piyush Somani, Managing Director, ESDS Software.

The new product enhancements will be available in H12015.

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