Comparing WAN Accelleration Products (Juniper WXC vs Riverbed vs Bluecoat)

Hey All,

For some weeks now i am busy with a project that includes Juniper Firewalls (with VPN's), Bluecoat (WAN ACC), Juniper WXC (WAN ACC), Juniper NSM (Management station), Juniper CMS (WAN Management station).

The Firewall/VPN part was difficult, because at HQ they had 2 ISP, but also at the remote side they had 2 ISP. The customer asked full redundancy (so we needed to create 4 VPN tunnel from remote to HQ). This i did before so wasn't to hard! (just play around with Vrouters and everything is up and running).

The real hard part was which WAN Accellerator will they take! So the customer start testing together with me.

Products we tested:

Bluecoat
Juniper WXC
Riverbed

We provider the tests for Bluecoat and Juniper, After these test we saw that on a satelite link bluecoat wasn't doing well (especially when using http!)

Personal i had the feeling that bluecoats proxy kicked in here and didn't do alot of WAN Accell. We also called bluecoat and they came over to do some tweaking, and saw that the customer his webpages wheren't cacheable (and this is the reason it didn't work that well)

After the bluecoat test, they tested Riverbed (which wasn't that bad, and better then Bluecoat).
The last test we came again with Juniper WXC and it seems that this was the fastes solution.

So because of the outstanding Juniper FW/VPN concept (vrouter and routing based vpn's) and the good performance of Juniper WXC, the customer choosed us to build there international Network.

JNCIS-FWV (Juniper Firewall/VPN products and ScreenOS software)

Hi All,

I did my JNCIS-FWV exam today (this shouldn't be to hard, because i work for more then 8 years with these Firewall.)

Passed the exame with 92%.

We needed this exam for the Partner level again. Hope i can get some time now to prepare for the JNCIE-ER (and maybe will do some other exams in between (what do you think about the M/T track :))

Juniper Partner Level Exams

hey all,

So it has been a long time you heared from me... Been busy with some big projects. I also needed to do all those partner exams again for our Partner Level.

Here the list of exams i did: (there pretty easy if you have worked with those products)

JNSS (Pre-Sales) and JNSA (Sales)

Juniper Networks Enterprise Routing Sales Associate – JNSA-R
Juniper Networks Enterprise Routing Sales Specialist – JNSS-R
Juniper Networks Advanced Security Sales Associate 2007 - JNSA-S
Juniper Networks Advanced Security Sales Specialist 2007 - JNSS-S
Juniper Networks Data Center Acceleration Sales Specialist – JNSS-DX
Juniper Networks Access Control Sales Specialist 2007 - JNSS-AC
Juniper Networks Access Control Sales Associate 2007 - JNSA-AC

JNCIS-ER (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist)

Hi All,

So we did the JNCIS-ER exams today, and ...... YES we passed again.

This was the first exam I was afraid of, all this because I didn't have real life practical experience. (only in a lab).

But the score was fantastic (96%)

Now i will prepare myself for the JNCIE-ER exam (this will take some time, because i need to do some other exams also (To keep the company there Partner level: JNCIS-FWV, all the Sales and Presales exams (JNSS/JNSA for all products).

Will keep you all up to date!

Preparing for JNCIS-ER

Hi All,

So i passed the first Certification for the Enterprise Routing Track of juniper. The next step is to get the JNCIS-ER certification so i can do the JNCIE-ER Lab exams.

Because i passed the JNCIA-ER, i got a extra Free Voucher. For this exam i will study the Advanced Juniper Networks Routing in the Enterprise student courseware and lab guides.

Today i booked the exam (will be 28/09/07 at 11:00 AM)

JNCIA-ER (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate)

Hey all,

Today i toked my JNCIA-ER exames!!

And i passed, so i am one step closer to the JNCIE-ER (which is one of my goals).

JUNOS Enterprise Routing Fast Track Certification Program

Hi All,

Because i worked with ScreenOS for years now, and i know that JunOS will be very important for the old Netscreen (now Juniper security devices) devices. I decided to start learning this new OS.

Nice thing was that juniper created this Fast Track Program, where people with for example Cisco IOS knowledge can easy learn JunOS. Because i had done my CCNP (in july 2001) and didn't forget everything yet :). i started this Program.

First i followed the JUNOS as a Second Language eLearning course, which compared the IOS commands with the JunOS ones.

After that i learned the Operating Juniper Networks Routers in the Enterprise student courseware and lab guides. (Got a J series router at work, and build a olive).

Then i was ready for the JNCIA-ER preassessment exam. (i passed this one, so i got a voucher to take the real exame)