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Article: Juniper SSG provides fast branch-office security; New platform challenges Cisco ISR.(Juniper Networks Inc., secure services gateway, integrated services routers)(Cisco Systems Inc.)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- February 6, 2006
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Byline: Tim Greene
Juniper is announcing a new product family based on its acquisition of NetScreen, a fast security platform with high-speed
WAN ports designed for branch offices that have direct Internet connections.
While firewalling, intrusion prevention and VPN come standard on these secure services gateway (SSG) devices, they also support
a range of other security applications, putting SSG in competition with Cisco's popular integrated services routers (ISR).
However, SSG and ISR are different in key ways.
Juniper's SSG offers a faster firewall with more features as well as support for a range of other security ...