Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Juniper Secures Traffic Across T-Mobile Austria's Mobile Data Networks

Juniper has been selected by T-Mobile Austria GmbH, a subsidiary of T-Mobile International, to provide 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 Gateway (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 virtualisation capabilities without compromising network throughput, the company said in a statement.

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, security functionality and virtualisation capabilities, the company claimed.

"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 maximised", 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 company added.

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, the company continued.