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CSDS Overview

Read this topic to learn about the Juniper’s Connected Security Distributed Services (CSDS) Architecture and benefits.

Juniper’s Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture delivers a scalable, distributed security architecture design that fully decouples the forwarding and security services layers. This approach enables existing Juniper MX series routers to act as intelligent forwarding engine and load balancer with path redundancy capability.

Figure 1: CSDS Architecture CSDS Architecture

Benefits

CSDS Architecture delivers the following unique capabilities:

  • Scalability: Ability to scale horizontally and elastically as needed, with no chassis limitations. All distributed firewalls function together as a fabric, enabling automated resiliency with multi-path redundancy. If one fails, others automatically load balance and pick up the slack.
  • Simplicity: Manage all distributed firewall engines as a single logical element, regardless of the count. You can deploy in the right form at each site almost similar to adding virtual service cards to a chassis.
  • Flexibility: Forwarding performance and services can scale independently by decoupling forwarding and services layers. This helps to deliver the right size security solution for every deployment and the ability to mix and match different form factors. Additionally, you can continue to use the existing Juniper firewalls in the new architecture, ensuring that the processes and policies all remain intact.