Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

Tue Apr 20 01:54:39 UTC 2010

We've had GREAT success with SRX210, SRX240 and SRX650 boxes in the past
3-4 months.  There has been some issues I'll admit but they were all
fixed either in service releases or actual JunOS upgrades.

I believe that most of the issues you hear about were in the 9.x JunOS
releases or at least that was my experience...

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:mehmet at icann.org] 
Sent: April-19-10 9:48 PM
To: Jeffrey Negro; nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

SRX seems very new and many comment it as unstable, this includes some
of
Juniper engineers I know in person. SSG though is phasing out. 8months
ago
while I was looking for these solutions more closely, I had decided to
stay
with SSG, which was good for next 3-4 years. However I believe probabyl
SRX
is more reliable now, and moving from ScreenOS to Junos definitely is a
learning curve but something that worth in long term.

Mehmet

On 4/19/10 5:32 PM, "Jeffrey Negro" <jnegro at billtrust.com> wrote:

> Has anyone on Nanog had any hands on experience with the lower end of
the
> new SRX series Junipers?  We're looking to purchase two new firewalls,
and
> I'm debating going with SSG series or to make the jump to the SRX
line.  Any
> input, especially about the learning curve jumping from ScreenOS to
JunOS
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
> 
> Jeffrey