As you may be aware, late last week a vulnerability in TLS, which may have also been referred to as an HTTPS vulnerability, was disclosed to the public (http://extendedsubset.com/Renegotiating_TLS.pdf). As with most high profile vulnerability releases, there has been a lot of incorrect assumptions made about this issue and the impact. This post will hopefully help combat the unnecessary fear and chaos. Read more...

In June 2009 Juniper announced a solution for Next Generation Transport of TDM and Voice over IP/MPLS that enables enterprise organizations and service providers to transform their networks, while keeping both operational and capital equipment cost at a minimum. Read more...

In July, Juniper announced a brand new JUNOS Fast Track Certification Program, featuring a limited-time offer of 100% discounts on all JUNOS Enterprise Certifications. To say the program was a smash success would be a gross understatement. Read more...

As best as I reckon, for nearly a year, industry and economic pundits alike have been theorizing over the changes in how organizations do business or need to plan their business for the future given the recession we have had to endure. There is virtually no industry or geographic region that has been untouched by this phenomenon. These experts have created catchphrases such as "flat is the new up". Much as we saw during the recession in the early 1990's companies are "right sizing", "redeploying" and "refocusing" resources all in the attempt of being able to best ride out the economic storm and come out ahead. Read more...

We have unveiled a new web-based training class: JUNOS as a Scripting Language. This training class is approximately four hours long and attempts to provide an overview of using the script automation features built into the JUNOS Software. Read more...

On July 28 Microsoft released two out of band patches (http://www.microsoft.com/atl) to address a serious issue known as Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) vulnerability. Read more...

As I've written previously, the Juniper Networks Education Services team is committed to providing training that equips learners to use our products in real-world scenarios. We have deep experience on our team that enables us to produce high-quality training courses. However, just like really good software developers need beta testers for their software, we also need beta testers for our classes. Read more...

From its founding, Juniper Networks has done things differently from other networking vendors. It is fitting that its customer education programs should be no different. Read more...

100%. That's the new answer to the question: "How much of the exam costs does a JUNOS voucher now cover?"

In this third and final installment of the mobile security blog series I conclude with a look at mobile location and commerce and its impact on security. Read more...

Enterprises have undergone a substantial change over the last decade. At one time headquarters were a central point for the business. But today, in order to remain competitive, the enterprise has to be located close to where business is conducted. These globally distributed enterprises often consist of a campus or headquarters, branch locations, satellite offices, regional offices, home-office workers and road warriors. Read more...

According to a recent study commissioned by Juniper, deploying JUNOS® Software can save time and operational costs in running the network. The study results are great news for the reliability and savings you can experience once JUNOS is deployed in your network, but how can you reduce the initial effort of deployment? fcmvwd2jqu

As a Juniper SE I like to discuss the benefits of JUNOS to our partners and customers, explaining how JUNOS is essentially the Crown Jewels of Juniper Networks. Lately I’ve taken to not just running through the slideware, but logging into the Juniper Networks software download page and showing them how simple it really is..... Read more...

Most data centers today are already incredibly complex, with numerous servers, applications, networking hardware, and appliances. On top of this, if you are supporting a virtualized server environment, how do you manage virtual machine (VM) migration in this complicated environment? What’s the best, easiest and most cost-effective way to do it? Read more...

Picking up where I left off in the previous blog, there are a few more mobile trends that deserve a closer look and assess the security impact of the same. Read more...

The whole point of technology is to make things simpler. But on the way, things can get convoluted. Read more...

Do you have any tips on the fastest way to learn JUNOS, if I'm already familiar with IOS? As a Juniper sales engineer, it seems that I hear that question at least once a week. Here's how I respond. Read more...

I wouldn't say I was startled when first briefed by customers on their 100GE requirements in early 2006, because I knew the topic was on the agenda-but I was given pause by the perceived urgency of it. In core routing, we are used to traffic growth rates of 70-80%, and a network architect planning for this kind of growth has to consider all kinds of tools to cope with this possibility. Read more...

As the mobile “r”evolution hurtles with warp speed and takes all of us with it for the joy ride, it is imperative that we step back and observe the various trends that are contributing and causing this phenomenal pace of change. I will attempt to use these trends as a watershed moment and shed light on the critical but not often discussed topic of “security” - the last bastion of protection and on which the entire mobile community depends to maintain, preserve and protect the services that we all demand and consume at will. Read more...

Juniper has delivered JUNOS 9.5 this quarter―shipping the 42nd on-time release in a long-standing series of its industry leading operating system. JUNOS 9.5 brings a wealth of new features to enterprise and service provider customers across an expanding portfolio of routing, switching, and security platforms. Read more...

Judges give props to the SRX "swiss army knife" that "packs a bunch of horsepower and features...into a single unit" Read more...

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Juniper Networks started shipping the EX8216 on May 1, 2009, one quarter after the launch of the EX8208. Releasing two such large-scale projects back-to-back would not have been possible without the extraordinary dedication of our engineering team, and I’d like to take a moment to recognize their accomplishments. Doubling the EX8208’s density was not a trivial exercise; everything from the ASICs to power and cooling needed to be planned in advance, while systems and software had to be designed, built and tested in parallel. One advantage of this approach was that any issue found on one platform could be fixed on the other at the same time, and the EX8208 backplane and EX8216 midplane could provide identical interfaces to the EX8200 line cards. As a result, when we first powered up the EX8216 early last year, it just worked.

The idea that the firewall is dead is, well, hogwash. It might not be your father’s firewall but, believe me, firewalls are not going away. Some vendors in the industry are claiming the firewall’s dead. And if your definition of a firewall hinges on a set of features that were originally offered in the first firewalls in the late ‘80s then I suppose you might be right. But by the same reasoning you probably think we should’ve renamed the “automobile” when distributors gave way to electronic ignition systems (yes, this is a geeky guy reference). Read more...

How ready and secure is your business to take advantage of the opportunities that are available to the distributed enterprise? Read more...

Last month, I participated on a panel at CTIA in Las Vegas with some mobile networking industry luminaries http://bbwfunwired.com/schedule/F1.asp including Mark McDiarmid, T-mobile's Director of Engineering and Systems Planning; Scott McElroy, Vice President of Technology Realization; Cayetano Carbajo Martin, Technology Director, GCTO, Telefonica and others, which was chaired by Dr. Peter Meissner, Operating Officer of the NGMN Alliance. The topic was tools for success, enablers and key success factors for deployments of next generation broadband networks. It generated a lot of interesting dialogue and one thing immediately became very clear: we all shared a very similar view of the major transformation that is underway in the mobile industry. Read more...

Last week I spent some time chatting with one of our favorite analyst firms about the future of the WAN. He's seeing many of the same things in the industry today as we are. Demands on the WAN are getting, well, pretty demanding! And enterprises are adopting a few specific strategies to cope. One strategy is the use of MPLS-based managed services to ensure private, low-latency traffic delivery. These services are great - they do what they're supposed to do and they're not too tough to use. The service provider pretty much takes care of everything. Read more...