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Manufacturer of network equipment Juniper launched to regulate Monday Unified Access Control 2.0, a technology the entry of devices till a business network. It is the answer of Juniper SIPPED (Network Access Protection) on NAC (Network Admission Control) of competitor Cisco, and on Microsoft's.

UAC 2.0 is, neat as Cisco NAC and Microsoft SIPPED, a technology that fixed or a new connected device entry gets on the business network, and which use right the on that network gets. As the laptop of an accidental visitor perhaps no entry gets till the protected business network and ankle till an internet connection. The computer of a consultant that on the order of the business works, gets then again complete entry - only alone as that computer foresee is of current antivirussoftware and the most recent Windows patches. That network entries control works mostly with three components: a device or Server where the entry rules or policies become gedefinieerd, interrogates a stiff software on the pc - the agent - that information about the device passes. Then the network equipment the newcomer must close or let through then.

Cisco and Microsoft already announced that they will work together, and published in September details about the manner on which NAC and SIPPED on each other will become tuned.,. The agent that built in stretch in Windows Vista, will the place take in of the Cisco NAC agent. And on the next version of Windows Serve, will code name Longhorn, the possible its entries rule for the network to definiren that applied become then by the Cisco NAC-network equipment.

In October 2005, Juniper launched its own version of the draft: the Juniper Infranet Controller device, an application that the network entry regulates, and the Infranet Agent software. That system required however the use of Juniper firewalls to regulate till which systems an user entry gets. What among many also means that it somewhere a firewall must stand between the new connected device and the rest of the network.

Only meanwhile Juniper end 2005 Funk Software acquired develops, that software to regulate the entry of mobile devices. The addition of that technology at UAC, sees to for it that Juniper now also - neat as Cisco - on the level of the switch a particular device from the network can close. For that reason UAC 2.0 makes use of the IEEE-standard 802.1X. The use of that already established technology, makes the possible that Juniper UAC uses becomes on networks with existing switches of different brands, as long as they only 802.1X support. According to Juniper, UAC 2.0 works, next to the own switches, also with switches of among many Cisco and HP. In contrast till Cisco's NAC, requires Juniper's UAC thus no renewal of the network infrastructure and no choice formark switches, says Godfather Crowcombe, enterprise marketing director EMEA by the business. 'See we the market leader be, can we commit do not ask round their whole network to upgraden', he do not clarifies.

Also at the side of the agent, Juniper want to strive to standards, says Crowcombe. There is make a standard in the, Trusted Network Connect that Juniper in the future apply want.