Networks for 5G network security

 Juniper Network on Wednesday said it has been selected by the Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica Spain to secure the mobile backhaul of its 5G network. For the purpose of securing its traffic and infrastructure, Telefonica Spain has chosen Juniper’s Security Gateway along with Juniper’s SRX series.

Telefonica said it has also selected that a platform that can provide additional services basis requirements--including Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT), Stateful Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Denial of Service (DoS), Application Security, VPN (IPsec), Unified Threat Management (UTM), Quality of Service (QoS), and Large-scale Multitenancy.

Telefónica said it will implement Juniper’s SRX5800 Services gateway. As part of the difference between computer engineering and computer science family, it will also include vSRX and cSRX that will allow the solution to cover the telco Cloud infrastructure. This is in addition to a third-generation Services Processing card (SPC3), a third-generation Services Processing card (SPC3), and the fourth generation Input-Output Cards (IOC4).