Juniper Networks introduces Dynamic Services Architecture in the Middle East

This will allow the company to tightly align rapidly changing business requirements with network technology investments to accelerate new service deployments.

The Dynamic Services Architecture is the foundation on which the newly announced Juniper Networks SRX dynamic services gateways are built, offering an extensible "no compromise" solution to scaling integrated services and network capabilities on a single architecture. This enables enterprises, service providers and public sector agencies in the region to quickly and cost-effectively take advantage of new service opportunities, address changing business requirements, and deliver superior user experiences.

High-performance businesses from the UAE to Saudi Arabia to the Levant and North Africa view the network as critical for taking advantage of dynamic service and business models which fuel innovation.

As these businesses continue to massively scale their networks to support advanced applications and services, they can no longer afford the service integration and performance tradeoffs associated with administering and managing legacy network infrastructure.

Innovative businesses require a dynamic network infrastructure that is fast, reliable and secure, and that paves the path toward seizing new opportunities.

These challenges include keeping pace with an escalating and evolving security threat landscape, which remains a leading source of network downtime and slow service; contending with an inability to quickly scale networks to deliver applications and support thousands to millions of users; and the continuing operational inefficiencies that plague legacy network infrastructure, including the rising cost, complexity and inability to adapt to changing requirements.

"Racks of service specific appliances and blades along with a multitude of operating systems and management interfaces create a level of network complexity that introduces latency and inhibits new service deployments," said Abner Germanow, director, Enterprise Networks, IDC. "A service architecture that enables businesses to scale in all dimensions dynamically with virtually 'any' service will quickly meet the business requirements and streamline investment decisions."

"Maximizing the value of services and applications while simultaneously minimizing costs is critical for service providers to drive revenues," said Ray Mota, chief research officer, Synergy Research Group.

"There is a fundamental requirement for a high-performance scalable network architecture that delivers performance, reliability and security at scale to accelerate new service deployment."

Continued Innovation: Dynamic Services Delivery Technology
As the leader in high-performance networking, Juniper uniquely understands today's challenges for enterprises and service providers in the Middle East and elsewhere, and continues to innovate, to design, develop and deliver solutions that offer greater choice and control in quickly meeting changing requirements.

The Dynamic Services Architecture includes Juniper's dedicated dual management engine and purpose-built, carrier-class terabit speed fabric that allows for massive scale of Ethernet ports and services processing independently.

The new architecture delivers the ability to readily "turn-on" a wide range of services, including stateful firewall, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDos/DoS) protection, Network Address Translation (NAT), dynamic routing, and Quality of Service (QoS).

This ability greatly accelerates application and service deployments. The Dynamic Services Architecture serves as the framework for the evolution of networking, which will not only change the way businesses operate, but also improve how networks are architected.

"In the Middle East, developments in sectors such as financial services and government are demanding the deployment of high performance networks, and companies are facing the challenge of scaling upward rapidly while maintaining the consistent availability of their applications," said Dr. Samer Shaar , Juniper Regional Director - Middle East, Central Africa and Pakistan.

"The critical need for enterprise security, as evidenced by the widespread reporting of recent 'denial of service' and hacker attacks in the region, is also at the top of regional CIOs' challenges. Juniper's new Dynamic Services Architecture addresses these very issues and enables the the provisioning of high-performance security and networking services to accelerate the deployment of advanced business and consumer services and applications, all while reducing cost, complexity and risk."

Delivering High-Performance SRX Dynamic Services Gateways
The Dynamic Services Architecture is the foundation on which the newly announced Juniper Networks SRX dynamic services gateways are built.

Juniper today introduced the family of JUNOS®-based dynamic services gateways - the SRX 5600 and 5800 - which provide fast, reliable, secure access to applications and services from a single network architecture that runs on a single operating system managed by a single management framework.

The Juniper SRX dynamic services gateways are designed to meet the technical, business and economic requirements of a service-enabling network infrastructure. For more information on the SRX dynamic services gateways.