Juniper Networks Adds WiMAX Support to its Steel-Belted Radius Platform

(Product News, 26 Mar 2008)

Juniper Networks Inc. has introduced support for WiMAX broadband wireless networks with its Service Provider Steel-Belted Radius (SBR) Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Server. With mobile WiMAX support, Juniper's SBR Carrier AAA Server will provide a single, unified multi-access AAA system that delivers the flexibility to serve the rapidly evolving mobile landscape, and will enable providers to accelerate the delivery of new services while leveraging existing network assets.

Mobile WiMAX places extraordinary demands on Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) systems, which need to support multiple Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) methods; manage mobile IP sessions; and facilitate roaming. Juniper's SBR Carrier AAA solution addresses these challenges by supporting the methods required by the WiMAX standard for authenticating users and devices (EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS and EAP-AKA), as well as legacy technologies such as EAP-SIM for backward compatibility—on a single, unified platform. With its mobile IP key derivation and management functionality, the SBR Carrier AAA Server will also have the intelligence to set up mobile IP sessions; manage mobile sessions throughout their lifetimes; and support roaming in both home and visited networks.

The Juniper Networks Steel-Belted Radius family of high-performance RADIUS servers provide centralized user authentication and access policy management, with the performance and reliability required by the world's largest mobile operators. Juniper Networks SBR servers give mobile operators control over how users access and use their networks—preventing unauthorized access, ensuring that users comply with security policies before they connect, granting the appropriate level of access to each user, and delivering accounting records to a billing/tracking system.

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