Juniper introduces industry's fastest firewall

BANGALORE: Juniper Networks has unveiled a new hardware for the SRX5800 Services Gateway that will secure traffic on high speed networks.

The new product enhancements will be available during the first half of 2015.

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, a release said.

Besides, 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.

“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. With Juniper’s latest performance advancements, the company is elevating industry standards and empowering businesses to accelerate time to enforcement with the fastest available throughput on the market today,” said Christofer Hoff, Vice President and Security Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks.

The release further said that these new improvements will increase available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall throughput up to 2 Terabits per second (2 Tbps), to empower service providers and large enterprises to minimize the potential for security bottlenecks as they manage increased and unpredictable demands for bandwidth placed on their networks, a statement said.