Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Juniper Networks Comes Up with the Intelligent Services Edge

Juniper Networks has announced the Intelligent Services Edge, which is a fully integrated portfolio of new hardware and software features that address business challenges for customers building and expanding high-performance networks.

According to Juniper, the Intelligent Services Edge would enable providers to deliver a comprehensive range of services over a single operating system with maximum scale. The advancements facilitate intelligent convergence at the edge, which drives network monetization by speeding deployment of new services and reducing operational costs and complexity.

The Intelligent Services Edge will extend the power of JUNOS by adding the following advanced edge services:

· Broadband Services Routing: extends subscriber management technology from the market-leading E-series Broadband Services Routers to the M- and MX-series platforms
· Dynamic Application Awareness: leverages Juniper's leadership in security and policy management to provide stateful, subscriber-aware application monitoring, enabling advanced, application-specific service levels and QoS treatments
· Intrusion Prevention: provides application layer security leveraging Juniper Networks advanced Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) technology
· Session Border Control functionality: manages VoIP and multimedia sessions to ensure quality of service and security for VoIP and multimedia applications

The Intelligent Services Edge consists of many new hardware and software innovations available for purchase individually, the first of which are currently available. The full suite of Intelligent Services Edge hardware and software enhancements is expected to be available by Q309.