Industry’s fastest firewall?

Amid continued advancements in the threat landscape and the explosion of new Internet connected devices, service providers and large enterprises are facing the increasingly complex task of providing more effective security protections while meeting greater performance demands. OrganiSations must have both high speed and performance to prevent attacks, while also ensuring threat data can quickly inform firewall policies and enforcement points across the network. A recent survey conducted by Infonetics Research reinforces these customer requirements by reporting performance increases that don’t come at the expense of security efficacy and management/policy tools, and access to real-time threat data top the list of new investment drivers.

With a comprehensive next-generation firewall and threat protection portfolio, Juniper Networks helps companies block attacks and keep their networks and content secure by combining record throughput, reliability and a rich set of security features, including its next generation firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS) and unified threat management (UTM).

Juniper Networks is introducing new hardware for the SRX5800 Services Gateway including third-generation input/output cards (IOC3), an enhanced midplane chassis and third-generation system control boards (SCB3). 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.

· Unparalleled Performance Advancements:

o The combination of IOC3 cards, SCB3 boards, an enhanced midplane chassis, and application of Express Path software allows the SRX5800 Services Gateway to deliver a leading edge security platform capable of surpassing 2 Tbps throughput.

o Each IOC3 line card supports two packet forwarding engines (PFE), a high density configuration of 2x100GbE and 4x10GbE high speed interfaces. Additionally, it delivers 240Gbps bandwidth and 2X bandwidth increase over the prior hardware card.

o 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 required and providing investment protection as companies scale their infrastructure.