Routers World

Juniper Networks on Monday launched the TX Matrix Plus, a virtualising routing system that the company claims is one of the most efficient on the market.

The company claims it can lower the total cost of ownership of networks as it can process up to 25 percent more routing capacity “in half the footprint of other routers and with up to 40 percent less power consumption”.

The TX Matrix Plus can also support up to 25Tbps of network capacity by “integrating up to 16 T1600s into a single multi-chassis routing node”, the company said in its statement. The TX Matrix Plus multi-chassis router can be managed as a single, unified router, or combined with the JCS 1200 so core routers can be virtualised. The T1600, launched in 2007, can manage up to 1.6Tbps, while the JCS (Juniper Control System) 1200, launched in 2008, maintains routing rules and control separately from the routing hardware itself.

“The multi-chassis capability, the ability to put a number of T1600s into one unit, is key,” said Juniper’s head of marketing, David Noguer Bau. “This means organisations can scale the router by adding more T1600s so it gives them a migration path.”

Bau told ZDNet UK that another feature was the compactness of the system. “You can get the same amount of networking capability in half the physical size and using half the power,” he claimed. “Where other companies would need to use 25 racks, with our solution you would only need 10.”

Redundancy and failover was not a factor with the system, said Bau, because customers would build their systems with multiple chassis and software that could handle failover. Bau said the main competition for the router was Cisco. “Our strategy is to be more competitive with our technology,” Bau said.

The TX Matrix Plus price will starts at $300,000 ((£205,000) and will be available in the third quarter of this year.

source: ZDNet

Juniper Networks has issued seven safety recommendations for its products, including a fix for a nasty bug that could be used to crash the company’s routers.

The number two provider router does not release a security advisory published in any of the errors – the information is available to registered customers – but the problem is being patched by telecommunications companies that use Juniper routers in high-end , as prefect of Praetorian Security Consulting.

“This was a serious problem that seems to have been averted by a coordinated response,” the company wrote in a blog on his Web site.

Although the bug was first identified early last year, security experts recently discovered how it could be exploited in Internet-based attacks, so it is a much more critical. By sending a specially crafted packet to the router, an attacker could cause it to crash and then restart Juniper said in the announcement on Tuesday that was seen by IDG News Service.

“The fact that you can begin to [restart] high-end equipment is a great thing,” said Daniel Praetorian Kennedy in an interview. “Some of the routers to handle a large amount of traffic.”

Kennedy said he knew of no public attack that exploited the bug.

All routers using the JUNOS operating system are affected, but any operating system version built after 28 January. 2009, includes the patch, the advice of Juniper, said.

A Juniper spokesman declined to provide further technical details on the issue, saying the company just passes this information to customers and partners. The warning was one of seven recently published by the company, said via e-mail.

Networking company Juniper Networks is encouraging customers to upgrade their routers to fix a serious vulnerability in its operating system.

My the Juniper T-series routers are affected by the flaw in the version 6 series of Juno, which makes them vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Such an attack could allow an attacker to gain access to the router and crucial areas of a company network.

Juniper confirmed the existence of security hole in Junos on Monday.

“It is fixed, that our customers are upgrading, but I can not give more details,” Penny said, however, a spokesman for Juniper.

According to security firm Secunia Research has vulnerability “moderately critical” implications for networks. In a notice posted on its website, the Danish company said the flaw was in an unspecified error in processing certain network packets. It recommends that companies upgrade the operating systems on their routers.

The vulnerability is thought to affect routers running versions of yuzu installed before January 07 this year. It was discovered by U.S. Qwest Communications.

The warning comes after Cisco Systems Juniper sent two notices of security holes in its router software. On 21 January, the networking giant posted a warning on its Web site to say routers connected to its IP telephony equipment could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Then last week, Cisco announced it had found three security flaws in its routing software that could open the door to the same kind of intruder.

Networking company Juniper Networks is encouraging customers to upgrade their routers to fix a serious vulnerability in its operating system.

Juniper’s M- and T-Series routers are affected by the flaw in the version 6 series of Junos, which makes them vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. Such an attack could allow a hacker to gain access to the router and crucial areas of a company’s network.

Juniper confirmed the existence of the security hole in Junos on Monday.

“It is being fixed, in that our customers are upgrading, but I’m not able to give any more details,” said Penny Still, a spokeswoman for Juniper.

According to security research firm Secunia, the vulnerability has “moderately critical” implications for networks. In an advisory posted to its Web site, the Danish company said that the flaw was in an unspecified error in processing certain network packets. It recommended that companies upgrade the operating systems on their routers.

The vulnerability is thought to affect routers running versions of Junos installed before Jan. 7 this year. It was discovered by U.S. company Qwest Communications.

The Juniper warning comes after Cisco Systems sent out two alerts of security holes in its router software. On Jan. 21, the networking giant posted a warning on its Web site to say routers connected to its IP telephony gear could be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. Then last week, Cisco announced it had uncovered three more security flaws in its routing software that could open the door to the same kind of intruder.

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