Jun, 2003 : Buffalo University to Use NetScreen Firewall

📅 June 11, 2003 - NetScreen Technologies, Inc. (netscreen.com) announced yesterday that the University of Buffalo has selected it to provide firewall protection for Resnet, the university's residential network that enables approximately 7,000 students to access computing, library and academic services from their campus residences.

The university said it selected two NetScreen-500 systems because its previous provider was not able to meet its growing bandwidth requirements or scale to meet its cost and usability needs.
?The University of Buffalo had to find a firewall that was easy to administer," said Jeff Murphy, senior communication systems administrator for the University of Buffalo. "Using the NetScreen solution has cut the total time required to complete maintenance upgrades across the entire network from as many as 10 days to minutes. The high availability capability of the NetScreen-500 systems allows the university to make administrative changes without incurring network downtime and disrupting student's network access."
Efficiency and cost savings were other key selling points. ?An easy-to-use and cost-effective firewall was required for the University of Buffalo to evolve its network infrastructure," said David Flynn, vice president of marketing at NetScreen. "A complex and difficult-to-configure software solution was clearly too time consuming and costly for the university to adapt to its expanding network. With NetScreen's purpose-built, appliance-based solutions, the University of Buffalo can enjoy the benefits of a secure, high performance firewall with minimum management overhead."
NetScreen is a Sunnyvale, California-based developer of network security solutions.