Data Sheet EX4600 ETHERNET SWITCH DATASHEET Product Description Product Overview The EX4600 line of Ethernet switches delivers data center class scale, high availability, and high performance to campus distribution deployments. The EX4600 offers fixed 10 Gpbs and modular 10 Gpbs and 40 Gbps ports, giving it the flexibility to also be implemented in data center topof-rack and service provider aggregation deployments. The EX4600 is onboarded, provisioned, and managed in the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture. Mist Wired Assurance delivers better experiences for connected devices through AI-powered automation and service levels. Featuring up to 72 wire-speed 10GbE small form-factor pluggable and pluggable plus transceiver (SFP/SFP+) ports, and up to 12 wire-speed 40GbE quad SFP+ transceiver (QSFP+) ports in a compact one rack unit (1 U) platform, the Juniper Networks® EX4600 Ethernet Switch delivers 1.44 Tbps of Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity to networked devices such as secure routers, servers, and other switches. The EX4600 base switch provides 24 fixed 1GbE SFP/10GbE SFP+ ports1 and 4 fixed 40GbE QSFP+ ports, providing the flexibility to support mixed 1GbE, 10GbE and 40GbE environments. A total of four models are available: two featuring AC power supplies and front-to-back or backto-front airflow; and two featuring DC power supplies and front-to-back or back-to-front airflow. Each model includes dual power supplies. All versions feature two expansion slots that can accommodate optional expansion modules, providing tremendous configuration and deployment flexibility for enterprise distribution networks. Two expansion modules are available: • 8xGBASE/10GBASE SFP/SFP+ fiber expansion module2 • 4x40GbE QSFP+ expansion module3 Architecture and Key Components Cloud Management with Juniper Mist Wired Assurance Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, a cloud-based service driven by Mist AI to claim, configure, manage, and troubleshoot the EX4600, delivers AI-powered automation and service levels to ensure a better experience for connected devices. Wired Assurance leverages rich Junos switch telemetry data to simplify operations, reduce mean time to repair, and improve visibility. Wired Assurance offers the following features: • Day 0 operations—Onboard switches seamlessly by claiming a greenfield switch or adopting a brownfield switch with a single activation code for true plug-and-play simplicity. • Day 1 operations—Implement a template-based configuration model for bulk rollouts of traditional and campus fabric deployments, while retaining the flexibility and control required to apply custom site- or switch-specific attributes. Automate provisioning of ports via Dynamic Port Profiles. • Day 2 operations—Leverage the AI in Juniper Mist Wired Assurance to meet servicelevel expectations such as throughput, successful connects, and switch health with key pre- and post-connection metrics (see Figure 1). Add the self-driving capabilities in Marvis Actions to detect loops, add missing VLANs, fix misconfigured ports, identify bad cables, isolate flapping ports, and discover persistently failing clients (see Figure 2). And perform software upgrades easily through Juniper Mist cloud. The addition of Marvis, a complementary Virtual Network Assistant driven by Mist AI, lets you start building a self-driving network that simplifies network operations and streamlines troubleshooting via automatic fixes for EX Series switches or recommended actions for extern

EX4600 Ethernet Switch Datasheet For more information see Mist Wired Assurance. Figure 1: Juniper Mist Wired Assurance service-level expectations Simple Virtual Chassis technology on the EX4600 dramatically simplifies the enterprise distribution layer, eliminating the need for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), complex routing, or VLAN configurations. In addition, when deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the EX4600 reduces the number of devices to manage and can even eliminate network switching layers. A single Virtual Chassis configuration can span...

EX4600 Ethernet Switch Datasheet Figure 3: EX4600 as an enterprise distribution switch with MC-LAG Figure 4: EX4600 switch in distribution in campus fabric networks

EX4600 Ethernet Switch Datasheet The EX4600 easily meets enterprise core switch requirements, As business grows, the network needs to evolve. With its compact 1 U form factor and complete switch features, the EX4600 can be easily redeployed in different environments and physical layouts. delivering wire-speed performance on every port, full device redundancy, support for L3 dynamic routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF, L2 and L3 MPLS VPNs, and a comprehensive security and QoS feature set. EX4600 switch capacity can be expanded without increasing the number of managed devices by simply adding...

EX4600 Ethernet Switch Datasheet two separate VMs in active and standby pairs; during software upgrade cycles, the switches seamlessly move to the newer • Figure 7: EVPN multihoming configuration via the Juniper Mist cloud Junos Operating System The EX4600 runs the same Juniper Networks Junos operating system that is used by other EX Series Ethernet Switches, as well as all Juniper routers and Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways. By utilizing a common operating system, Juniper delivers a consistent implementation and operation of control plane features across all products. To maintain...

EX4600 Ethernet Switch Datasheet • Insight technology for analytics: The EX4600 provides dynamic buffer utilization monitoring and reporting with an interval of 10 milliseconds to provide microburst and latency insight. It calculates both queue depth and latency, and logs messages when configured thresholds are crossed. Interface traffic statistics can be monitored at two-second granularity. The data can be viewed via CLI, system log, or streamed to external servers for more analysis. Supported reporting formats include Java Script Object Notification (JSON), comma-separated values (CSV), and...