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Juniper Networks Secures Traffic Across T-Mobile Austria's Mobile Data Networks
Best-in-Class Integrated Firewall/VPN/IDP Solution Combines Fast Data Throughput, Comprehensive Network Security, Virtualization and Cost Benefits
| Source: Juniper Networks
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 12, 2007 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ : JNPR ) today
announced that it has been selected by T-Mobile Austria GmbH, a subsidiary
of T-Mobile International, to provide best-in-class security for T-Mobile
Austria's data networks as part of a major system upgrade. Deployed to
protect mobile data for T-Mobile Austria's 3.1 million subscribers and
service provider partners, the Juniper Networks Integrated Security
Gateways (ISG 2000s) protect the legacy and 3G mobile infrastructure, as
well as internal traffic on its operational and maintenance (OAM) network.
The solution offers integrated firewall, VPN and IDP (intrusion detection
and prevention) security and cost-effective virtualization capabilities
without compromising network throughput.
A rapidly growing customer base and significant rise in network traffic
meant that T-Mobile Austria needed to increase data throughput and
interface domains while maintaining a high level of network security,
service reliability and cost-effectiveness. The upgrade to the ISG 2000
FW/VPN/IDP solution has given T-Mobile Austria multi-gigabit performance,
comprehensive security functionality and rich virtualization capabilities.
The newly deployed ISG 2000s further enhance T-Mobile's existing security
solutions from Juniper Networks, which are currently deployed in other
areas of the network.
"The ISG devices protect traffic on our production and internal data
networks at wire-speed and in High Availability mode, so the user
experience is always maximized," said Manfred Reiff, T-Mobile Austria's
senior manager packet networks. "It is preferable for T-Mobile Austria to
have multiple point-solution devices, instead of having an approach which
is much more expensive to acquire, deploy and manage."
The virtualization feature was another key factor in T-Mobile Austria's
decision to deploy the ISGs, as it delivers significant technical and cost
benefits. Each physical device can be divided into a group of up to 50
logical firewalls, each one with its own centrally-managed security policy.
This enables T-Mobile Austria to divide numerous flows of customer and
partner traffic by service and priority on its production network, and to
divide internal traffic by users' rights and responsibilities on its OAM
network, each from a single pair of fully-redundant, active-passive ISG
2000s.
Juniper Networks helps mobile operators evolve to a secure, intelligent and
open converged IP infrastructure, working closely with strategic partners
to integrate products into end-to-end solutions for core, RAN, and IMS
architectures. Eleven of the top twelve mobile operators globally use
Juniper Networks mobile solutions, and Juniper security products can be
found in the majority of wireless carrier networks around the world.
"Similar to fixed line service providers, mobile network providers such as
T-Mobile Austria face the challenge of providing effective network security
while expanding their networks to meet increasing demand for capacity,
reliability and performance," said Gert-Jan Schenk, vice president of
operations, EMEA, Juniper Networks. "Juniper's experience of securing the
world's largest service provider networks is very attractive to the mobile
operators as they move towards fixed-mobile convergence."
About T-Mobile Austria
T-Mobile Austria is part of T-Mobile International which is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile International was established in
December 1999. Since then, it has positioned itself as one of the largest
international mobile communications carriers. It is the first to operate a
trans-Atlantic mobile network based on GSM (Global System for Mobile
Communications), the world's most successful digital wireless standard.
T-Mobile subsidiaries and affiliates were among the first operators
worldwide to use future-oriented technologies like GPRS, UMTS (3G) and
W-LAN.
T-Mobile Austria is a mobile service provider currently employing 1,800
people in Austria where it has approximately 3.1 million customers. A
strong national player, T-Mobile Austria has firmly established itself as
an industry leader with innovative products and outstanding service.
About Juniper Networks, Inc.
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enable customers to support a wide variety of services and applications at
scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and
education institutions rely on Juniper to deliver a portfolio of proven
networking, security and application acceleration solutions that solve
highly complex, fast-changing problems in the world's most demanding
networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
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