Juniper Networks has announced a new phase of its standards-based Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC) 2.2 software and the Juniper Networks Infranet Controller 4500 (IC 4500) and Infranet Controller 6500 (IC 6500) hardened, centralized policy management servers.

Juniper noted its enhanced Access Control Solution with the new UAC and Infranet Controllers provides centralized access policy management via the newly announced Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager (NSM).

"Providing secure, consistent yet differentiated network and application access that drives high-quality collaboration and interactions between students, faculty, contractors and partners is a challenging task for today's increasingly distributed environments," said William Caplins, Director of Technology at St. Mary's County Public Schools, who deployed Juniper Networks UAC with the help of Data Networks, a Juniper Networks Elite Partner. "Juniper's comprehensive, scalable UAC solution enables us to continue to grow and sustain business productivity without sacrificing security. With advancements in policy management and continued standards support, UAC makes it even simpler and cost efficient for us to deliver granular access control. We like the direction Juniper is going."

Juniper Networks said the UAC 2.2 delivers centralized policy management when deployed with Juniper Networks NSM and Secure Access SSL VPN appliances, enabling customers to deliver uniform remote and local access control policy implementation and enforcement across the distributed network. Additionally, the IC 6500 delivers double the capacity of the previous generation Infranet Controllers with support for up to 30,000 simultaneous endpoint devices in a single multi-unit cluster, according to the company.

"Granular network and application access demand a fast, reliable and secure access control solution that offers best-in-class performance and scalability, along with easy administration, provisioning and management," said Sanjay Beri, vice president, Access Solutions, Juniper Networks. "Juniper remains a pioneer and leader in delivering the most comprehensive enterprise-wide access control, giving our high-performance customers the ability to improve security and business continuity, and to focus more on innovation."

"Juniper Networks has been a key driver of standards-based network access control and the company's latest support of TNC's IF-TNCCS-SOH protocol reflects its ongoing commitment to delivering a solution that is flexible, open and interoperable," said Paul Sangster, co-chair of the TNC Work Group of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). "This epitomizes the TNC standards: enabling interoperability between products from different vendors to deliver powerful network access control and network security, simplifying rollout and deployment and reducing the cost and administration of enterprise security."

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