Coming Soon To Your iPhone: Junos Pulse

Coming Soon To Your iPhone: Junos Pulse

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Some great news for enterprises came from Apple today in the form of the iPhone OS 4 announcement.

In addition to a myriad of new and exciting end-user tools, including over 100 new features such as games and multitasking, Apple is taking a few steps to improve the iPhone’s ability to help enterprises manage the information flowing to and from their networks. One such feature will be the OS 4 support of SSL VPN applications, including Juniper’s.

Juniper and Apple are already working together to develop our previously announced Junos® Pulse solution for OS 4. Today’s announcement is obviously very exciting for us – we are working hand-in-hand with Apple to pioneer SSL VPN support on yet another mobile platform.

A little background on Junos Pulse: It is the industry’s first downloadable client software that provides secure connections across smartphones, notebooks, netbooks as well as non-mobile devices to a broad range of corporate applications. Leveraging the world’s most scalable SSL VPN technology, Junos Pulse ensures a better, simpler experience for users where they may be. At Mobile World Congress 2010, we announced Junos Pulse support for Microsoft Windows phones and Nokia Symbian OS devices.

When fully released, OS 4 will have integrated, world-class SSL VPN capabilities versus just supporting IPSec VPNs. All the advantages of an SSL VPN, decreased deployment and support costs while delivering identity-enabled, secure mobile network access, will be available on the iPhone.

At Juniper, we talk a lot about “The New Network” and taxing load new, ubiquitous mobile devices and video place on the network infrastructure carrying them. However, the problem with protecting those networks, and the sensitive information transported on them, is just as paramount. Today’s announcement is the first step in a process that will assure a user’s corporate managed and personal iPhone meets corporate policies prior to network access. This means increased productivity by enabling the secure access of company applications and assets via their iPhones.

We look forward to updating you on the progress of the Junos Pulse iPhone roll-out. In the meantime, what do you think of today’s news? Let me know.

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Juniper on the iPhone how cool is that. One thing about this announcement that is highlighed imho which no one is talking about is the role of software. Basically Apple ships out the iPad (with all the hype) and has some serious limitations like multitasking among others... the beauty of this new network model is that Apple can turn around and offer and upgrade to "make whole" all those buys of iPad (soon to be called iPad original) with new features without replacing the hardware. This was precisely the notion that Pradeep mentioned in my chat with him in Barcelona.

Nice job Brendan and Junos. -Software is the brains behind it all.

Here is my review of today

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/04/08/iphone-os-4-launched-by-apple-much-need-upgrade-good-for-use...

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Great move on the iPhone Remote Access Solution. What i'd like to see are features from SecureAccess integrated such as endpoint assessment (being able to lock down the endpoint while on the VPN) as well as Cache cleaner functionality.

What would be really nice is a SIP-Based Presense/SoftPhone functionaity integrated into JunOS Pulse that I can use accross this VPN Connection to my HQ so that I can use VoIP and SIP Apps with JunOS Pulse

Juniper is heading in the right direction with this one...