Juniper copycats Cisco

Hot on the heels of the recent launch of Cisco's all-in-one Adaptive Security Appliance , Juniper is adding intrusion detection to one of its firewall/VPN devices and revamping its line of stand-alone intrusion-detection gear, making it possible for businesses to streamline network administration by deploying fewer boxes.

It looks like Symantec called it right 2years ago that the market would gravitate to all-in-one appliances, although I think this thinking may take some time to take among customers, as I am certainly still witnessing strong "best-of-breed" buying in the market.

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