By Steve Ragan Jul 17, 2007, 15:30 GMT
Juniper Networks has announced that in order to enhance deployment to branch offices and to consolidate the number of devices on a remote network, they have released new version of the J-Series and the SSG hardware platforms. The J2320 and J2350 J-Series services routers, Secure Services Gateway 320M (SSG 320M), SSG 350M security platforms, and two new network management appliances with the Juniper NetScreen-Security Manager (NSM) Central Manager and Juniper NSMXpress make up the new releases from Juniper.
The new J2320 and J2350 J-Series services routers join the J-Series family to offer high-performance and a variety of flexible interfaces that deliver secure network connectivity to regional, branch, and remote offices. Running the JUNOS software, the J-Series routers extends modularity and services integration to the branch, offering routing with security and optional integrated IP telephony. Using Juniper Networks ScreenOS, the SSG 320M and SSG 350M, which also share a common hardware platform with the J2320 and J2350 J-Series routers, are security platforms that deliver secure LAN/WAN connectivity at scale for small enterprise branch offices of twenty-five to one hundred users.
“With the branch office market evolving and the demand for choice and flexibility increasing, enterprises struggle to provide a high-performance, secure, and reliable network to branch office users,” said Andrew Braunberg, Research Director, Enterprise Security and Software, Current Analysis. “In order to effectively secure their networks, administrators require visibility into emerging security threats and a simplified method of implementing, enforcing and measuring compliance to global security policies across their entire network and do so with a centralized network management device.”
The 320M and J2320 offers three modular PIM slots, four on-board 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, Encryption Card, which is standard for SSG 320M and optional for J2320. In addition, they deliver more than 400 Mbps of firewall traffic and 175 Mbps of VPN performance. The SSG 350M and J2350 expand upon on this by providing five modular PIM slots and delivers more than 500 Mbps of firewall traffic and 225 Mbps of VPN performance.
The new Juniper Networks J2320 and J2350 J-series services routers, SSG 320M and SSG 350M security gateways, NSM are expected to be available by end of Q3 2007.
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