Juniper Networks Deploys Security Solution for Chile’s Largest News Consortium

Juniper Networks Deploys Security Solution for Chile’s Largest News Consortium

Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) today announced that Las Últimas Noticias newspaper, a property of Chile´s largest news consortium, El Mercurio News Corporation (El Mercurio S.A.P.), has selected Juniper Networks’ Integrated Security Gateway (ISG) 2000 integrated firewall/IPSec VPN for protection against Worms, Trojans, Viruses and other malware. By utilizing the Juniper ISG 2000, El Mercurio can not only make the company’s website more secure, but can also dramatically increase overall reliability and network uptime to this high-traffic website.

“With Juniper Networks’ ISG 2000, I can rest at ease and go home without worrying about finding something wrong the next day,” said Luis Alberto Soto, networking department manager at El Mercurio, “I am completely confident that the Juniper ISG 2000 can process the large volumes of traffic traversing our network while securing it against malicious attacks”.

El Mercurio S.A.P. owns 15 newspapers, as well as their corresponding websites. In March 2006, one of those newspapers, Las Últimas Noticias, implemented the news website www.lun.com in order to provide a better user experience. As a result, daily page views jumped to five million a day. This dramatic increase in page views resulted in bandwidth usage greater than 1 GB, putting a significant traffic load on the system and forcing the networking department to rethink its security system. The company tested many security solutions, most of which performed below expectations. “Of the many solutions we tested, only Juniper Networks’ ISG 2000 integrated solution exceeded expectations. I am particularly impressed with the intrusion detection and prevention characteristics provided by Juniper,” said Luis Soto.

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