An Agile Family of Cloud-Era Universal Routing Platforms

The MX Series portfolio was designed for agility and built from the

ground up to support a universal set of edge applications, helping

Juniper customers rapidly respond to evolving business and

technical requirements while simplifying operations without

sacrificing their current infrastructure investments.

With its massive scale and efficiency, the MX Series is ideal for

space- and power-constrained environments. It redefines per-slot

economics, enabling customers to do more with less while

simplifying network design, reducing OpEx. It also enables the

profitable delivery of a broad range of business, residential, mobile,

cable, data center, and cloud services while seamlessly supporting

traditional and emerging network architectures with adaptive

software and pervasive security. The flexibility of the MX Series is

enabled by the programmable Trio chipset, which allows MX Series

platforms to add support for new features, such as telemetry,

without costly hardware upgrades. Additionally, support for the

Junos Automation Toolkit and the Juniper Extension Toolkit provide

modern programming languages that reduce costs and increase

profitability by improving productivity and customization.

This agility is evident in the wide variety of MX Series use cases

that have been proven in the world’s largest and most demanding

networks, including:

• Business Edge: MX Series platforms support the broadest

range of L2/L2.5/L3 VPN services which, in combination with

multilayer, multiprotocol resiliency, ensure that customer SLAs

are met under all network conditions.

• Internet/Peering Gateway: MX Series platforms support the

high performance, reliability, scale, and density needed to

efficiently peer with Internet and other service provider

networks.

• Broadband Network Gateway (BNG): MX Series platforms

offer the highest subscriber density and most sophisticated

broadband edge features available in the industry.

• Universal SDN Gateway: The MX Series offers a

comprehensive solution for interconnecting virtual and

physical networks—as well as between virtual networks

operating with different technologies—via support for

Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), dynamic tunnels using MPLSoGRE

or Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) encapsulation, virtual

routing and forwarding (VRF) tables, E-VPNs, and Network

Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), along with the ability to

send traffic between VRF and global routing tables based on

configuration and policy.

• Data Center and Cloud Edge: The MX Series is ideal for data

center/cloud edge applications, with support for multiple

overlay encapsulation methods, including VXLAN, Network

Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE),

MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE, 802.1BR, SR-MPLS, and SR-V6. The

MX Series also incorporates data plane security with inline

MACsec in the MPC-10E line cards, making it a perfect fit for

data center and cloud deployments.

• Enterprise WAN: Enterprises and government agencies

worldwide use MX Series platforms to build their own overlay

network on top of a service provider’s Layer 2 or MPLS

network, using encapsulation technologies such as MPLSoGRE,

VXLAN, and IPsec for secure transport.

• Universal Metro/Aggregation: MX Series platforms offer a full

suite of routing and switching features, allowing you to choose

a deployment model that best fits your business and technical

needs. The MX Series can be deployed as IP/IP VPN edge

routers, Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and virtual private LAN service

(VPLS) provider edge (VPLS-PE) routers, MPLS label-switching

(LSR) routers, and as Layer 2 Ethernet switches or Layer 3 IP

routers.

• Mobile Backhaul: In addition to switching, routing, and

security features, MX Series platforms support highly scalable

and reliable hardware-based timing that meets the strictest

LTE requirements, including Synchronous Ethernet for

frequency and the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for frequency

and phase synchronization.

At-a-Glance: MX Series Universal Routing Platforms

Comparison

The MX Series portfolio includes a wide range of physical and

virtual platforms that share a common architecture and feature set.

This enables Juniper customers to select the platform that best

addresses their unique business goals and satisfies their scale,

density, resiliency, space, power, and value-added service

requirements without compromising on quality or features.

Modular MX Series Platforms

MX960, MX480, and MX240 Universal Routing Platforms are

modular, chassis-based platforms.

• The MX960 has been proven in the world’s largest service

provider, cable, mobile, and data center networks, offering 12

Tbps of system capacity in support of business and residential

broadband services as well as peering and provider edge

applications.

MX 204/240/480/960 Series Universal Routing Platforms Datasheet

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