SESSION SMART NETWORKING

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Product description

The Juniper Networks® Session Smart™ Router (SSR) Series powers Juniper’s AI

‑native

SD

‑WAN solution. The software‑based solution utilizes a unique, tunnel‑free routing

protocol called Secure Vector Routing. This innovative networking solution improves

application performance, rapidly scales to thousands of sites, and secures users and data

with inherent Zero Trust access policies.

The Juniper SSR can be managed by either the Juniper Session Smart Conductor or the

Mist™ platform. Together, these platforms create a single logical control plane that is highly

distributed, and a data plane that is truly session aware. The SSR supports a wide range of

use cases, including SD

‑WAN, SD‑Branch, multicloud, and IoT, and can scale from a small

branch office to a high

‑capacity edge router to a hyper‑scale, software‑defined data center

(Figure 1).

Figure 1: Session Smart Router services, applications, and network domains

Session Smart Router

The SSR combines a service-centric control plane and a session-aware data plane to offer

IP routing, a robust policy management engine, improved visibility, and proactive analytics.

This architecture, built on a unique tunnel-free foundation, is designed to provide a more

efficient and agile service fabric for modern networks.

The SSR also provides native Zero Trust security that leverages hypersegmentation. It

includes several key security features:

• Service-centric, tenant-based security architecture: The unique design enables the

SSR to understand sessions and perform vital business operations, securing

connectivity based on user, application, and location.

• Zero Trust security: The SSR follows the principle of “deny-by-default,” which uses a

series of checkpoints to validate legitimate network traffic, assuming no user or device

can be trusted by default.

• Integrated next-generation firewall (NGFW) : The SSR provides Layer 3/Layer 4

network firewall functionality, integrated directly into the routing fabric.

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Product overview

The Juniper Session Smart

Router (SSR) powers Juniper’s

AI-native SD-WAN solution that

is designed to provide users with

exceptional experiences. Built on

an application-aware and Zero

Trust secure network fabric, the

SSR meets the most stringent

enterprise performance,

security, and availability

requirements.

The SSR overcomes inherent

inefficiencies of conventional

solutions with a tunnel-free

architecture that enables

improved performance, fast

deployments, and cost savings.

The solution can run on

customer premises equipment

(CPE), data center network

servers, and in the cloud for

flexible deployments.