Juniper SRX Series

Chapter 2. SRX Series Product Lines

In Chapter 1, we focused on SRX Series examples and concepts more than anything, and hopefully this approach has allowed you to readily identify the SRX Series products and their typical uses. In this chapter, we take a deep dive into the products so that you can link the specific features of each to a realistic view of its capabilities. We begin with what is common to the entire SRX Series, and then, as before, we divide the product line into branch and data center categories.

Before the deep dive into each SRX Series product, we must note that each SRX Series platform has a core set of features that are shared across the other platforms. Some of the platforms have different features that are not shared. This might lead to some confusion, because feature parity is not the same across all of the platforms, but the two product lines were designed with different purposes and the underlying architectures vary between the branch and the data center.

The branch SRX Series was designed for small and wide needs, meaning that the devices offer a wide set of features that can solve a variety of problems. This does not mean performance is poor, but rather that the products provide a lot of features.

The data center SRX Series was designed for scale and speed. This means these firewalls can scale from a smaller deployment up to huge performance numbers, all while keeping performance metrics to scale linearly. So, when configuring the modular data center SRX ...