Data Sheet MX SERIES UNIVERSAL ROUTING PLATFORMS Product Description Product Overview Unrelenting traffic growth— driven by higher speeds, more subscribers, mobile penetration, cloud adoption, and ubiquitous video consumption—is straining traditional service provider and enterprise networks. To accommodate this reality, Juniper’s Secure Automated Distributed Cloud solution helps service providers react to changing market conditions and accelerate service delivery with world-class products and innovative architectural components. The MX Series is an integral part of this solution. Powered by the Junos OS and programmable Trio 5 silicon chipset, MX Series platforms deliver powerful routing, switching, security, and services features that help operators successfully transform their networks—and their businesses —in today’s hyper-connected world. The continuous expansion of mobile, video, and cloud-based services is disrupting traditional networks and impacting the businesses that rely on them. While annual doubledigit traffic growth requires massive resource investments to prevent congestion and accommodate unpredictable traffic spikes, capturing return on that investment can be elusive. Emerging trends such as 5G mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) communications, and the continued growth of cloud networking promise even greater network challenges in the near future. The Juniper Networks® MX Series Universal Routing Platform delivers the industry’s first end-to-end infrastructure security solution for enterprises as they look to move business-critical applications to public clouds. Delivering features, functionality, and secure services at scale in the 5G era with no compromises, the MX Series is a critical part of the network evolution happening now. At the same time, traditional operations environments are increasingly challenged to meet consumer and business requirements for rapid service delivery and cloud-like network experiences. Issues related to monitoring and management are placing additional stress on already strained budgets and personnel, and promising technologies like Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and SDN introduce an entirely new set of operational challenges. Our hyper-connected world demands more agile, automated, and scalable networks. Now more than ever, network operators need to transform their networks—and their operations environments—to accommodate this reality. Utilizing state-of-the-art software and hardware innovations, MX Series Universal Routing Platforms are helping network operators worldwide successfully transform their networks and services. Powered by the Juniper Networks Junos® operating system and the programmable Trio chipset, MX Series platforms support a broad set of automation tools and telemetry capabilities that enable a rich set of business- and consumer-oriented services with predictable low latency and wire-rate forwarding at scale, while providing the reliability needed to meet strict service-level agre

MX Series Universal Routing Platforms 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...

MX Series Universal Routing Platforms • The MX480 is a modular, 7.5 Tbps-capable router that supports a wide range of cloud, campus, enterprise, data It provides a cost-effective solution for a wide range of lowbandwidth provider edge, business edge, broadband network center, service provider, cable, and mobile service core applications. • The MX240 is a compact, 3 Tbps-capable router ideal for space-constrained cloud, enterprise, data center, service provider, cable, and mobile service core deployments. The latest generation of line card hardware for the MX960, MX480, and MX240 platforms delivers...

MX Series Universal Routing Platforms • Switch Control Boards (SCBs) feature an integrated switch fabric that connects to all slots in the chassis in a nonblocking architecture. The SCBs house the Routing Engine, control power to MPCs, monitor and control system functions such as fan speed and the system front panel, and manage clocking, resets, and boots. • The Routing Engine (RE) provides the control plane, runs Juniper Networks Junos® operating system, and handles all routing protocol processes as well as the software processes that control MPCs, chassis components, system management, and...

MX Series Universal Routing Platforms Flow monitoring Video monitoring Lawful intercept Deep packet inspection Flow monitoring Server traffic load balancing7 Stateful firewall HTTP header manipulation Unified ISSU Nonstop active routing (NSR) Fast restoration Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Junos Fusion Edge (AD) Logical systems Virtual router/switch Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) YANG data modeling Juniper Extension Toolkit System Virtualization Stateful services Service Card Supported Services6 Inline Services Firewall filters/ACLs DDoS—control plane Service Card...

MX Series Universal Routing Platforms Junos Continuity and Unified In-Service Software Upgrade (Unified ISSU) Junos Continuity and unified ISSU features remove the downtime risks associated with implementing new hardware or upgrading operating systems. • Junos Continuity eliminates OS upgrades and system reboots when adding new hardware to MX Series platforms; a plug-in package provides the drivers and support files needed to bring the hardware online. • Unified ISSU reduces the risks associated with OS upgrades by enabling upgrades between two different Junos OS releases (major or minor) with...