Juniper Networks has announced that Sharekhan, a securities trading firm, has boosted the responsiveness, security and scale of its stock-trading website with Juniper Networks DX 3280 load balancing and application acceleration platforms. Wipro Infotech deployed the platforms.

"The Juniper Networks DX platforms were the rational solution to our scalability needs," said Ketan Parekh, Sharekhan's CTO. "The DX platforms have eliminated the need to constantly add new servers to keep up with our quickly expanding customer base. Such a brute-force solution would have increased administrative complexity and overhead costs, and still not have delivered the efficiency and security we now have. The DX solution gives us a greater return on investment from our Web trading infrastructure thanks to the confidence of continued scalability."

This project marks the beginning of a focused initiative between Juniper Networks and Wipro Infotech to jointly address opportunities to accelerate application performance across enterprise WANs and Data Centers in the Indian sub-continent.

"Our high-performance solutions are supporting India's growing enterprises with a clear and intelligent path to scalability," said Nagendra 'Venky' Venkaswamy, managing director of Juniper Networks India. "Network-based businesses such as Sharekhan need high-performance networks that take them to the next level with superior return on investment, cost efficiency, and infrastructure performance."