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About This Guide
The Juniper Networks NetScreen-5000 Series consists of purpose-built,
high-performance security systems that provide IPSec VPN and firewall services for
large-scale carrier, enterprise, and data-center networks. Built around NetScreen’s
third- and fourth-generation ASIC technology and distributed system architecture,
the NetScreen-5000 Series offers excellent scalability and flexibility.
The NetScreen-5000 Series includes the following device models:
NetScreen-5200, a chassis-based, two-slot network security device
NetScreen-5400, a chassis-based, four-slot network security device
NetScreen-5000 Series architecture features multiple processing modules. These
include a management module that provides overall system control, and security
processing modules that allow a variety of port configurations. Together, these
modules provide a wide range of performance and security gateway configurations.
Because the modules can work in many combinations, you can customize the
NetScreen-5000 Series to accommodate the specific requirements of your
organization.
The NetScreen-5000 Series also employs a switch fabric for data exchange and a
separate multi-bus channel for control information, thus delivering scalable
performance for the most demanding environments.
NOTE:
The configuration instructions and examples in this document are based on the
functionality of a device running ScreenOS Release 6.1.0. Your device might
function differently depending on the ScreenOS version you are running. For the
latest device documentation, refer to the Juniper Networks Technical Publications
website at
www.juniper.net/techpubs/hardware
. To see which ScreenOS versions
are currently available for your device, refer to the Juniper Networks Support
website at
http://www.juniper.net/customers/support/
.
