Integrated security will absolutely be a trend. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that if you don't have integrated security inside the next three years, you will be relegated to commodity infrastructure competition.

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The SSG gives Juniper a high performance and highly flexible platform to challenge competitors in the security/unified threat management market, while opening up opportunities to compete for business in branch office environments where customers are revisiting the concept of converged data and security, competing head-to-head with Cisco's Integrated Services Routers.

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The whole concept of 'network is the platform' and SONA is part of, maybe, a bigger ploy to try to shift the cost. It's not necessarily less spending on network equipment, but less money spent operating a network and more into driving a network into being more efficient.

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CSMS is a very interesting platform. It's built from the ground up to provide integration between its various components.

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