Juniper tackles network security

Juniper Networks is pushing an open architecture that provides enhanced visibility and control to help enterprises tackle network security issues, reports eWeek.

The company has pulled the covers off a number of new upgrades as well as the SRX 3000 series of services gateways, which is essentially a slimmed-down version of the SRX 5000 line.

Among the upgrades included in the Network Adaptive Threat Management Solutions set are updated releases of several products: Unified Access Control 3.0, new Secure Access SSL VPN 6.4 technology, and new releases of Security Threat Manager 2008.3 and Network and Security Manager 2008.2 with advanced network management, threat response and reporting.

The Raytown C-2 School District in Missouri has deployed Aruba's 802.11n WiFi network across its 22 elementary, middle, high, and vocational school campuses and support buildings, says Trading Markets.

The Aruba network supports more than 1 500 laptop computers housed on rolling computer carts that are wheeled into classrooms as needed.

Many of the schools are located in the proximity of nearby WiFi and high power radio networks that were causing Raytown's legacy single channel network to fail.

Chelsio Communications, a provider of 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) adapters and Asic solutions, has entered into an agreement with IBM on high-speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for a wide range of networking applications, states PR Newswire.

This agreement is expected to accelerate the development and industry availability of 10GbE adapters and Asic solutions enabling the next-generation IO designs targeted at the enterprise.

"IBM is pleased with the opportunity to work with Chelsio's engineering team and their Terminator chip technology as part of this agreement," said Kelvin Hawkins, vice-president of power systems development at IBM. "We expect this relationship to help yield high performance Ethernet solutions and address IO virtualisation and protocol offloads that will be very critical for our future data centres."