Juniper Networks Steel-Belted Radius Global Enterprise Edition

SBR Global Enterprise Edition Overview:

Steel-Belted Radius Global Enterprise Edition addresses the security and management needs of global organizations and government agencies, with the performance to tackle tens of thousands of users across multiple sites, serving as the centerpiece of a network security and access control infrastructure.

The Juniper Networks Steel-Belted Radius Gobal Enterprise Edition, a powerful version of our AAA/RADIUS server, is the ideal network access security solution for global enterprise managing thousands of users across multiple sites.

SBR Enterprise

SBR Series Steel-Belted Radius products are dependable, standards-based AAA/RADIUS servers and appliances that provide scalable authentication control, robust access policy management, and centralized configuration management, continually demonstrating their reliability, flexibility and interoperability.

Features & Benefits:

SBR Global Enterprise Edition includes all the features and benefits of SBR Enterprise Edition, plus the following:

• Increased session and connection control: SBR GE features such as account lockout and account blacklisting, and time-of-day and session time limits deliver increased control over who can connect to the network, when, and for how long.
   
• Authentication insurance: The round robin authentication and accounting, and failover features of SBR GE ensure that users will be authenticated prior to network access even if primary servers and appliances or authentication stores are unavailable for any reason.
   
• Flexible, efficient management: SBR GE, through its LDAP Configuration Interface, JavaScript support, and directed realms features, enables the simple, cost-effective setup and management of large numbers of users, and the precise enforcement of access and security requirements.
   
• Quick integration: SBR GE easily addresses network consolidation, including mergers and acquisitions, easing the assimilation and integration of authentication data for new or acquired employees and the ensuing immediate increase of users attempting network access.
   
• Advanced reliability: SBR Global Enterprise Edition helps meet stringent uptime requirements with load balancing and redundancy across all authentication and accounting systems. It guarantees delivery of accounting data and its high capacity can easily manage the busiest networks.
   
• Distributed authentication: Advanced proxy RADIUS capabilities available in SBR GE facilitate distributed authentication to any RADIUS server.
   
• IPv6 support: SBR Global Enterprise Edition supports IP version 6 (IPv6), an important feature and support for government audiences and secure enterprises

Standards-based SBR Series Steel-Belted Radius servers and appliances

• Empower enterprises with comprehensive control over how users access their networks
• Enable enterprises to centrally and uniformly enforce access and security policies
• Control network access authorizations
• Configure access restrictions or special requirements, such as connection time limits
• Centrally manage and uniformly apply policies to all users attempting network access, significantly easing deployment and streamlining network administration
• Secure network access via virtually any network access means
• Support the access technologies, user authentication stores, and authentication protocols required by most enterprises.

The Steel-Belted Radius Appliance offers:

• The convenience of a rack-mountable RADIUS server
• A dedicated, rack-mountable device for SBR Enterprise Edition and SBR Global Enterprise Edition
• A compact appliance that integrates easily into a data center
• Enhanced security with an operating system optimized for RADIUS services
• Quick deployment, reduced maintenance, and no parts-sourcing

System Requirements:

System Requirement

• SBR EE for Windows® XP/2003 runs on Microsoft® Windows XP (32-bit version) and Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit version). (Please note that Service Pack 2 is required for servers running Windows XP)
   
• SBR EE for Solaris™ runs on Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition 8/03 or later) or Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC Platform Edition 3/05 or later) on an UltraSPARC processor.
   
• SBR EE for Linux runs on the 32-bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or AS 4.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or AS 4.5.

Administration

• SBR GE is administered via a web-based administration program which runs from any supported platform accessible through any supported Web browser (Internet Explorer®, Netscape Navigator®, Firefox®).

LDAP Java Scripting

• Optional add-on

Centralized Configuration Management

• Yes

LDAP Configuration Interface (LCI)

• Yes

Round robin authentication and accounting across SQL and/or LDAP databases and directed realms

• Yes

Failover to backup SQL and/or LDAP database

• Yes

Performance

• 1,500 transactions per second

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