Juniper Networks Launches Junosphere Classroom

Juniper Networks (News - Alert), a company focused in developing software, silicon and systems of networking unveiled Junosphere Classroom, a new cloud-based service.

Designed to enable educational institutions, partners and customers to efficiently and cost-effectively educate networking students and professionals, the new Junosphere Classroom is based on Junosphere, a new cloud environment that enables the creation and modeling of virtual networks and elements running the industry-leading Junos operating system.

"Junosphere Classroom is a first-of-its-kind offering that highlights Juniper's innovation and the value of our focus on a software business model," Manoj Leelanivas, executive vice president, Junos Application Software Group, Juniper Networks said in a press release.

“Junosphere Classroom brings the power of Junos to the cloud, enabling our customers to learn and experiment in ways never before possible. Ultimately, this ground-breaking service extends the value of our new network strategy built on a single Junos OS to customers and Juniper alike," Leelanivas added.

Junosphere Classroom is said to overcome the drawbacks of traditional approaches of educating professionals by allowing customers to create and operate virtual Junos-based networks -- decoupling the educational process from the requirement for physical hardware and infrastructure.

In order to make the solution accessible to students via a secure Internet connection, Juniper Networks is making the solution resources in data centers, designed using Juniper's networking and security technologies. The company believes that this any-time, any-where access to the Junosphere environment can extend individual study time, and is also ideal for providing remote learning and home-based education.

As stated, Junosphere Classroom is available as a standalone offering, and as a component of the Juniper Networks Academic Alliance (JNAA) and Juniper Networks Authorized Educations Partner (JNAEP) programs, which provide prepackaged curricula and courseware.

Recently, Juniper Networks reported that its Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) security systems and Integrated Security Gateway (News - Alert) (ISG) firewall/virtual private network (VPN) systems with IDP offer protection for new Microsoft vulnerabilities announced. According to Juniper Networks, the vulnerabilities recently announced within the Microsoft (News - Alert) software can be found at Juniper.net.