Juniper Networks today announced that Telecom Italia Mobile Brasil (TIM) has deployed Juniper’s SRX5600 and 5800 Series Services Gateway across its new LTE network.
The primary purpose of Juniper Neworks’ Services Gateway was improved performance, scalability and integrated security services.
TIM deployed 4G LTE in the 24 largest cities in Brazil supporting over 400,000 of its subscribers.
In anticipation of this year’s World Cup, TIM wanted to improve security of the network. The latest Juniper Networks SRX Series platform enables TIM to provide zero downtime performance upgrades and scale for increasing bandwidth needs while ensuring network and customer security.
TIM is the second largest fixed and mobile telecom provider in Brazil covering 94 percent of urban geographies with over 73 million customers.
While 2G and 3G networks operate on encrypted protocols that provide security functions, the all-IP nature of LTE networks can expose core elements of the network to cybercriminals. The Juniper Networks SRX Series provides TIM functionalities that protect their backbone LTE networks as well as subscribers’ data and privacy.
Juniper Networks said SRX5600 and 5800 support 450,000 connections per second, up to an industry record-breaking 100 million concurrent user sessions and 300 Gbps throughput.
“Our LTE transition requires a massive bandwidth increase and additional security requirements, and a solution that can scale on-demand and deliver carrier-grade reliability to ensure always-on service for more than 70 million subscribers in Brazil,” said Cicero Olivieri, transport network director, TIM Brasil.
