DATASHEET
SA Series SSL VPN
Appliances
SA2500, SA4500, SA6500
Product Overview
Juniper Networks SA Series SSL
VPN Appliances provide a complete
range of remote access appliances
for all size companies, as well as
Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN
Virtual Appliances (see separate
datasheet). The SA Series includes
Juniper Networks Junos Pulse, which
provides a simple, intuitive enabling
user interface that provides secure,
authenticated access for mobile and
remote users from any web-enabled
device The SA Series combines the
security of SSL with standards-based
access controls, granular policy
creation, and unparalleled flexibility.
The result is ubiquitous security for
all enterprise tasks, with options
for increasingly stringent access
control to protect the most sensitive
applications and data, and deliver
lower total cost of ownership over
traditional IPsec client solutions.
Product Description
The Juniper Networks® SA2500, SA4500, and SA6500 SSL VPN Appliances meet the needs
of companies of all sizes. SA Series SSL VPN Appliances use SSL, the security protocol
found in all standard Web browsers. The use of SSL eliminates the need for pre-installed
client software, changes to internal servers, and costly ongoing maintenance and desktop
support. The SA Series also offers sophisticated partner/customer extranet features that
enable controlled access to differentiated users and groups without requiring infrastructure
changes, demilitarized zone (DMZ) deployments, or software agents.
The SA Series includes Juniper Networks Junos® Pulse, a dynamic, integrated, multiservice
network interface for mobile and nonmobile devices. Junos Pulse enables optimized,
accelerated, anytime, anywhere access to corporate networks, clouds, and the data they
hold. Junos Pulse enables secure SSL access from a wide range of mobile and nonmobile
devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop PCs, as well as Wi-Fi or
3G/4G and Long Term Evolution (LTE)-enabled devices. Junos Pulse delivers enterprises
improved productivity and secure, ubiquitous access to corporate applications and data—
anytime, anywhere.
Architecture and Key Components
The SA2500 SSL VPN Appliance enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to
deploy granular, cost-effective mobile and remote network and cloud access, as well as
intranet security and business continuity in case of disaster or emergency. Users can access
the corporate resources and applications from any endpoint device over the Web. The
SA2500 offers high availability (HA) with seamless user failover. And because the SA2500
runs the exact same software as the larger SA4500 and SA6500, even smaller organizations
gain the same high performance, administrative flexibility, and end user experience.
The SA4500 SSL VPN Appliance enables mid- to large-sized organizations to provide
efficient, role-based corporate network, cloud, and application access to mobile and
remote employees, as well as authorized contractors and partners, requiring only a
Web browser connected to the Internet. The SA4500 features rich access privilege
management functionality that can be used to create secure customer/partner extranets
and to enable secure access to the corporate intranet, so that employees and other
authorized users can use the same access means but with differentiated, role-based
access while still adhering to enterprise security policies. Built-in compression for all
traffic types speeds performance, and SSL acceleration is available for more demanding
environments. The SA4500 also offers HA with seamless user failover.
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