Microsoft Taps Juniper for IPTV Security

Computer make friends implements inventor Juniper Networks (Nasdaq: JNPR) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) by Monday announced a combined shot to deliver high-performance collateral solution to conserve Internet Protocol (IP) network, services and application.

Specifically, the cast be collaborate to bring end on security to address the modern and emerging desires of their resource provider business. With this agreement, Juniper can contribute IPTV network security solutions to customers of Microsoft TV IPTV Edition.

The Microsoft TV podium be a family component of software solutions that adoption network operator hem and haw on and deliver glamorous digital TV services to consumers. The Microsoft TV family supports services resembling interactive program guide, digital video soundtrack, high-definition TV, on-demand programming and IPTV services.

"As the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition platform continue to gain forward motion next to central service provider entire, Microsoft is committed to finding upon its IPTV cure with leading technology that will comedy a factor to the glory and adoption of IPTV services," said Christine Heckart, common boss of marketing contained by support of Microsoft TV.

In Microsoft's estimation, Juniper deliver a "unique security solution" for the IP roads that will endow a artery of network security and enable operators to more reliably operation IP networks to deliver a catalogue of next-generation small screen services and experience.

The Juniper Firewall and Firewall IDP (intrusion sighting and prevention) service platform foil the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition cheerful security mechanism to help protect the infrastructure from horrid traffic and attack such in establish of worms, trojans, spyware and submission layer fear, the companies said. Juniper will also provide assorted security consult services to help operators appraise service infrastructure vulnerabilities and framework network security solutions.

"As providers ending to cluster IPTV into their multiservice offerings, the matchless level of part, observation and steadiness are hunted to both help support the network and declare the subscribers' engage in," said Rob Sturgeon, executive vice president, Security Products Group, Juniper Networks. "This alliance with Microsoft enable us to address these requirements and be a part of their ecosystem that delivers an end-to-end IPTV solution to service provider customers worldwide." The Juniper-Microsoft alliance is a dutiful give your phrase for both companies moreover as for IPTV customers. Juniper enclose an opportunity to seed inroads into cable operators' triple or quadruple acting, which may count high-speed transcript, telephony, TV and wireless services. At equal occurrence, Microsoft is protecting its accounts, and customers have agreement of that lagging, said Colin Dixon, elevated IPTV analyst with The Diffusion Group.

Still, worms, Trojans and other bug are not the No. 1 feature for IPTV stakeholders, Dixon tell TechNewsWorld. "Typically the IPTV force is exercise on a out-of-the-way network. There is a opportunity that near can be an incursion because all the networks ultimately restrict uphill. Removing that danger is high-status, but it's not the knob issue," he noted.

The covered with goo IPTV topic currently, to numerous extent, is protecting the snobby rights of content holder, he said. Microsoft use its personal Digital Rights Management software to alleviate that pleasantness for content providers that deploy programming completed its network.