New Express Path for the SRX5000 Series Reduces Latency and Secures
Massive, Diverse Applications at Line Speeds; The Industry’s Most
Feature Rich Virtual Firewall vSRX Adds Increased Application Visibility
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Juniper
Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation,
today at its 2015 Innovation Showcase announced the availability of Express
Path, an optimization capability that delivers powerful performance
enhancements to Juniper
Networks® SRX5000 Series Services Gateways. By boosting throughput
to 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) and drastically reducing latency, it
enables the SRX Series to manage massive volumes of data traffic
traversing today’s mobile infrastructure and data center networks.
Juniper is also announcing new application security capabilities with AppSecure
2.0 for its virtual firewall vSRX,
formerly known as Firefly Perimeter, to deliver enhanced protection for
cloud and hybrid data centers.
With the advent of real-time information analysis, high-performance
computing and market data systems processing over 100 billion
transactions per day, security devices in these high speed networks must
deliver both maximum protection and reliable high performance without
compromise. Companies building these networks range from enterprises
engaged in high-performance computing, financial services firms
conducting high-frequency trading, mobile service providers supporting
exponential growth of mobile devices, and cloud providers seeking to
secure vast amounts of subscriber data from cyber threats. Although
five-nines of availability was once considered adequate, today virtually
zero downtime is presumed. Ensuring strong network security at the most
dependable performance level has been a challenge, often leaving these
organizations to compromise frequently on security for performance or
vice versa.
Now with a fast track services path that actively manages the security
of traffic flows based on sensitivity of the information and performance
demands, the SRX firewall will ensure there are no trade-offs between
performance and security. Juniper’s approach will deliver increased
available bandwidth and performance with six-nines of reliability, while
at the same time assuring the proper prioritization and allocation of
security resources for all traffic.
News Highlights
Juniper Networks is introducing new Express Path software for its latest
I/O cards (IOCII) that allows organizations to deploy the SRX5000 Series
flexibly and efficiently in their networks and secure a variety of
applications.
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Advanced Security for Traffic Flows:
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The Express Path capability will allow customers to deploy the SRX
firewall flexibly and efficiently in their networks for securing
both normal and latency sensitive traffic on a per policy basis
within the same line card.
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Unique to Juniper, Express Path software and hardware optimization
enables the SRX to identify and prioritize specific types of
traffic to be fast-pathed to IOCII hardware, delivering very high
throughput and low latency for applications as needed. This
empowers companies to utilize security resources more efficiently
and yield dramatic cost savings from the reduced configuration.
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The solution identifies and prioritizes active session flows to
receive appropriate security treatment based on the type of
traffic.
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Unprecedented Performance Improvements:
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Express Path on the SRX delivers unprecedented performance
improvements in throughput of any packet size and enables the SRX
to deliver latency as low as 7 microseconds.
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Express Path for the SRX5000 Series Services Gateway can now
support single, high bandwidth flows of up to 100 Gigabits per
second (Gbps) for fast data exchange of large amounts of
information, without disruption. This is highly useful for
organizations that have a need to exchange and transfer large
amounts of data securely and frequently at high speeds.
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With speeds of 1 Tbps, Express Path allows the SRX firewall to be
deployed in a variety of use cases where speed is essential to the
business, including large enterprises with massive volumes of
traffic on their networks, financial services firms, governments
and service providers (wireline and wireless) securing very large
amounts of subscriber data.
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Improved Deployment Flexibility and Operational Efficiency:
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The SRX firewall performance improvements are achieved without
compromising security efficacy. Express Path can be enabled when
optimal speed is desired for certain traffic types.
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The SRX Series Services Gateways minimize upgrade costs with
backward compatibility among existing cards and chassis,
eliminating the need for “forklift” upgrades.
Additional 2015 Innovation Showcase News Highlights
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Juniper also today announced that vSRX now supports key AppSecure 2.0
capabilities, providing application visibility and control features
that help protect virtualized and cloud environments from
sophisticated application-based threats. This enhancement to the vSRX
rounds out the virtual security solution by adding layer 7 firewall
services to its existing suite of services, including integrated
connectivity and routing, unified threat management (UTM) and
intrusion prevention systems (IPS).
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Moreover, the vSRX portfolio of software-based network and security
services can be used in conjunction with a variety of network function
virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions
such as Juniper Contrail, OpenContrail and third-party SDN solutions.
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Today, Juniper also introduced the QFX10000,
a new line of spine switches that will offer unprecedented scale,
automation and performance to all types of data center and cloud
deployments. Additionally, Juniper announced Junos® Fusion for data
centers, which will enable customers to manage their entire data
center as a single network to ensure simpler network designs and
long-term investment protection.
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Juniper also unveiled an
enhanced Converged
Supercore®, which includes new custom silicon, updates to the PTX router
and expanded SDN capabilities via the NorthStar Controller. With these
new innovations, Juniper will deliver the industry’s most powerful and
optimized core routing platform available to enable service providers
to better connect a world amid explosive and unpredictable bandwidth
demands.
Supporting Quotes
“As businesses seek to improve the speed of their networks, they’re
constantly challenged to ensure their network security scales with the
demand. With today’s announced improvements to the SRX and vSRX, Juniper
is giving companies the ability to enhance performance with advanced
features to maximize protection. Speed and efficacy are critical to
keeping the network secure, in both a cost-effective and flexible
manner, and Juniper Networks is fully committed to helping our customers
do just that.”
- Christofer Hoff, vice president and security
chief technology officer, Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper
Networks
“As network threats continue to evolve and grow rapidly, we want to
deliver a security solution that’s capable of providing greater
scalability and customization without compromising performance or
availability. We have relied on Juniper Networks vSRX to not only offer
our customers an innovative virtual firewall but also deliver a unique
disaster recovery security service that connects, secures and manages
workloads while delivering new services, secure connectivity, and an
exceptional customer experience. We are separating ourselves from
competitors with the vSRX and its ability to spin up services in working
environments within minutes instead of months.”
- John White,
director of product strategy, Expedient
“As a leading provider of cloud solutions in the UK, we needed a cutting
edge security solution to help us deliver on our promise to partners and
customers that we provide 99.9999 percent service availability. We
partnered with Hardware Group due to their expertise and experience in
providing advanced technical solutions and services in this area.
Through our partnership with Hardware Group and by leveraging Juniper
Networks SRX5000 Series Services Gateways, we are supplying the high
performance and intelligent security solution required to keep up with
our resilient, scalable, and flexible cloud services. With the SRX, we
have the maximum level of defense for high speed networks and protection
against all levels of attacks.”
- Piers Linney, co-CEO and
founder, Outsourcery
“We were looking for a security solution with high availability, but
also operational advantages. With Juniper Networks’ innovative vSRX
advanced virtualized security services, we potentially don’t need to
send physical kit out to site. We can configure it centrally and we
don't have to hold stock, we can just turn the product on when we need
it. Within our Virtual Datacentre, our customers can now easily have all
the benefits of the SRX security platform just as easily as they can
spin-up another server.”
- James Hickman, chief technology
officer, Virtual1
“Today’s threat landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace,
consequently we need a platform that enables our customers to be at the
leading edge of the curve, without sacrificing the network performance
and stability they expect to run their business. Juniper’s SRX5000
Series Services Gateways gives us the perfect platform to solve for this
by providing the highest level of security with highly scalable
performance. It offers the best of both worlds for us and our customers.”
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Jessica Geis, chief executive officer, Blue Chip Tek
“Juniper is focused on delivering high-performance security services
that provide for rapid network scale. SRX is also built to optimize
productivity in a highly available, always-on cluster with easy, secure
access. ESG Lab recently tested the latest release of the Juniper
SRX5400, and found that it offered an architectural approach,
next-generation IOCs and SPCs, and Express Path for performance, scale
and security efficacy. This makes the SRX5400 a good candidate for
organizations considering a next-generation data center firewall with
strict performance requirements for throughput and latency.”
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Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
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