Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.
Updated August 10, 2023

Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • vSRX
  • SRX4200
  • SRX4600
  • SRX5400
  • SRX5600
  • SRX5800

Overall Satisfaction with Juniper SRX

Juniper SRX is used as Network Firewall, which is responsible for securing the workload behind it. It addresses Network Security within the organization, limits the access of the organization's internal network, and secures the enterprise network from threats and from malicious users. Juniper SRX also helped send the traffic to the Internet with the help of Network Address Translation.

Pros

  • Network Address Translation.
  • Securing the Enterprise Workload.
  • Enterprise VPN Connectivity.

Cons

  • Antivirus Features can be more advanced.
  • Antispam Filtering features have room for improvement.
  • Cloud Capabilities.
  • IPSec VPN.
  • Network Address Translation.
  • Security Policies.
  • It really helped secure a big service provider environment.
  • It handles the traffic pretty well.
  • It helps in the seamless implementation of Firewall policies.
Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.

Do you think Juniper SRX delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Juniper SRX's feature set?

Yes

Did Juniper SRX live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Juniper SRX go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Juniper SRX again?

Yes

Juniper SRX is well suited for a Service Provider Environment where a high volume of traffic has to pass through the firewall; SRX handles that really well. SRX Network Address Translation (NAT) capabilities are very seamless. SRX also does pretty well in supporting VPN architecture. SRX is less suitable for a typical enterprise environment where multiple capabilities are needed in a single product.

Juniper SRX Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
9
Visualization Tools
7
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
8
Firewall Management Console
7
Reporting and Logging
8
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
9

Using Juniper SRX

Most of the teams are the application teams, hosting their application environment on prem, and connects via Juniper SRX to external partners or toward the internet. These application team also securing their environment via Juniper SRX firewall.
Networking team is the admin team who manages the firewall.
4 - Network Security skills are required for supporting the Juniper SRX. Day to day work is manage the firewall faults, as well as changes in firewall configuration as per the application requirement, such as to allow to deny the traffic.
  • Securing the applications.
  • Establishing the connectivity with partner networks.
  • On Prem to Cloud Connectivity.
  • SRX is being used to handle of lot of NAT connections, instead of using the dedicated NATing devices.
  • SRX is used as external point for any Internet traffic to hit the Internal network.
  • Enabling the features such as making it as the proxy server.
  • Utilizing the Decryption capabilities.

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