Juniper Networks M Series And J Series Routers
PRODUCT CATEGORY BROCHURE
J SERIES, M SERIES AND
MX SERIES ROUTERS
Juniper Networks Enterprise Routers –
New Levels of Performance, Availability, Advanced
Routing Features, and Operations Agility for
Today’s High-Performance Businesses
Networks Must Evolve to Meet the Needs of the
High-Performance Business
Today’s business environment is becoming more
dynamic and competitive as information technology
increases the pace of change and fundamentally
alters business models. IT departments are being
asked to support a more distributed enterprise,
enable new business processes to improve employee
efficiency, comply with new government regulations,
and lower infrastructure costs. Networks and
applications are also being consolidated, moving to
a converged IP infrastructure for reasons of both cost
and operational efficiency.
Juniper Networks® enterprise router solutions change
the economics of networking by reducing TCO,
increasing ROI and accelerating profitability. They
will help businesses implement a high-performance
network infrastructure that provides fast, secure, and
reliable delivery of the applications that drive business
processes, while containing costs and increasing
operational efficiency.
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Juniper Networks Enterprise Router Portfolio
Juniper’s next-generation routing architecture provides the solid, reliable, high-
performance foundation upon which today’s real-time, critical networking applications
can be delivered. Juniper Networks offers a comprehensive enterprise routing portfolio
consisting of the J Series Services Routers, the M Series Multiservice Routers, and the
MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers
The J Series Services Routers are typically deployed at remote offices or branch locations
and include the J2320 and J2350 for smaller offices, the J4350 for medium-size branches,
and the J6350 for large branches or regional offices.
The M Series Multiservice Edge Routers—the M7i, M10i, M120 and M320—have a wide array
of WAN Interfaces typically deployed in head office locations where high performance
packet processing is required, such as Internet access gateways, WAN aggregation
devices, data center routers, or backbone routers.
The MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers—MX80, MX240, MX480 and MX960—are
optimized for Ethernet and provide high-performance and high port-density routing and
switching in both campus core and aggregation, in data center core and aggregation, and
WAN edge.
The J Series, M Series and MX Series routers are based on Juniper Networks Junos®
operating system, an advanced modular operating system proven in the largest IP networks
in the world, and are designed to ensure high reliability, security, and performance.
Product Line Highlights:
• Unparallel performance addressing a wide range of deployments, architectures,
port densities and interfaces to suit the diverse needs of today’s high-performance
businesses.
• Services integration for the branch or remote locations in the network to shorten
deployment time and reduce operational costs.
• Comprehensive quality of service (QoS) functions that classify, prioritize, and schedule
traffic for applications such as VoIP.
• High levels of security through an architecture design that fully protects the control
plane and ensures operators can dynamically add filters while under attack.
• Advanced features for attack detection, complex filtering, and secure administration.
• High-availability systems with modular, fault-tolerant software, error-resilient
configuration and a range of vanguard techniques to ensure nonstop router processes
such as graceful restart, hitless Routing Engine switchover, and hot-swappable interfaces.
• One common Juniper Networks Junos operating system code base. Software
stability is enhanced through a rigorous development process. The single code base
streamlines deployment and software upgrades and offers multiple tools for platform
implementation and management.
• A single, simplified operations experience, which makes it possible for users who are new
to the Junos operating system to quickly adapt to the new software. Many advanced
operations functions are included to protect against user error and proactively assure
system health.
• Support for the most advanced routing features such as network virtualization with
MPLS, low-latency multicast, quality of service, and security without compromising
performance, to securely deliver and manage mission-critical data and applications.
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J Series Services Routers
Juniper Networks J Series routers provide up to Gigabit Ethernet performance for
J2320
enterprise remote, branch, and regional offices. They run the modular Junos operating
system which offers many advanced services (MPLS, IPv6, QoS, multicast, and so forth)
and security (stateful firewall and IPsec VPN) at no additional charge. The J Series routers
ease deployment and reduce operational costs by integrating key branch location services
such as routing, security, and IP telephony into one easy-to-operate platform.
J2350
J Series routers offer modular flexibility, performance headroom, and extensible memory
to meet future demands, providing unmatched reliability, investment protection, and value
for the enterprise.
Enhanced services available in Junos OS on the J Series which include security and
clustering services offer inseparable routing and security for improved network
J4350
performance and latency together with chassis clustering for stateful high-availability and
systems level resiliency in complex routing environments.
J2320 Features
• Up to 600 Mbps performance
J6350
• Four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Three modular interface slots that support a variety of WAN, LAN, and services options
• Ideal for one or two broadband, T1, or E1 interfaces with integrated services
J2350 Features
• Up to 750 Mbps performance
• Four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Five modular interface slots that support a variety of WAN, LAN, and services options
• Ideal for multiple broadband, T1, or E1 interfaces with multiple integrated services
J4350 Features
• Up to 1 Gbps performance
• Four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Six modular interface slots that support a variety of WAN, LAN, and services
options. Two of these slots are enhanced-performance slots that provide additional
performance to multiple Gigabit Ethernet configurations.
• Ideal for DS3, E3, and Metro Ethernet interfaces with integrated services
J6350 Features
• Up to 2 Gbps performance
• Four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Six modular interface slots that support a variety of WAN, LAN, and services
options. Four of these slots are enhanced performance slots that provide additional
performance to multiple Gigabit Ethernet configurations.
• Ideal for multiple DS3, E3 and Metro Ethernet interfaces with integrated services
• Optional redundant power supplies for high system availability
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M Series Routers
The Juniper Networks M Series is a family of high-performance, multiservice edge
routers, with advanced routing features that delivers exceptional flexibility and reliability
over a wide range of connectivity options without compromise. This allows the rapid
deployment of new services while minimizing the total cost of ownership. Designed for
M7I
high-performance service providers and enterprises, the M7i, M10i, M120, and M320 can
be deployed in the small and medium core, multiservice edge, collapsed POP routing,
peering, route reflector, campus or WAN gateway applications. Speeds range from DS0 up
to OC192/STM-64 and 10 GbE.
Advanced routing features supported include MPLS, multicast, QoS, and high availability.
Services supported include a broad array of VPNs, network-based security, real-time
voice and video, bandwidth on demand, rich multicast of premium content, IPv6 services,
granular accounting and much more. M Series routers are the choice for consolidating
M10I
multiple services onto a single IP network, ensuring application performance and
reliability, and bringing service provider performance and security to the enterprise
environments.
M7i Features
• Up to 1-Gigabit Ethernet/OC-12 WAN performance
• Four PIC slots and built-in 2x Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet links
• Forwarding Engine Board (FEB) with built-in services module
M10i Features
• Complete redundancy with dual routing engines, dual forwarding engines, and dual
power supplies; redundancy provided with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)
• Up to OC-48/STM-16 WAN performance
• Eight PIC slots for a variety of LAN, WAN, and services PICs
M120
M120 Features
• 120-gigabit throughput in compact form factor; supports 10-gigabit links at line rate
• Complete in-box redundancy with dual routing engines, 1:1 and N:1 redundancy of
forwarding engines, dual switch fabrics, and dual power supplies
• Two slots for 10-Gigabit Ethernet or OC-192; 16 PIC slots for a variety of LAN, WAN and
service PICs
M320 Features
• 320-gigabit throughput supports 10-gigabit links at line rate
• High performance control plane hardware for increases in BGP sessions, routes, VRFs
• Optimized for QoS/multiservice including 8 queues per interface, Jitter and latency
optimized for low speed interfaces, rich layer 2 QoS/VPN and interworking capabilities
• Complete in-box redundancy with dual routing engines, 1:1 and N:1 redundancy of
forwarding engines, dual switch fabrics, and dual power supplies
• 32 slots supporting 32 type 1 and type 2 PICs and up to 16 type 3 PICs for 10 Gbps uplinks
M320
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MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers
The Juniper Networks MX Series 3D routers is a family of high-performance Ethernet
services routers, providing unmatched flexibility and reliability to support advanced
MX80
services and applications. These routers function as a L2 switch, L3 router or both
simultaneously and support advanced routing features such as: MPLS network
virtualization, low latency multicast, QoS, and IPv6. The MX Series includes the MX80,
MX240, MX480 and MX960 and are typically deployed in high density campus and data
center core and aggregation, and WAN edge.
The MX Series provides carrier-grade reliability, density, performance, capacity, and scale
for enterprise networks with mission critical applications. Its high availability features
ensure that the network is always up and running. These features include Non-Stop
MX240
Routing (NSR), Fast Re-Route (FRR), and In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU). The MX
Series also delivers significant operational efficiencies enabled by Junos OS, a collapsed
2-tier architecture enabling less power, cooling and space consumption, and open APIs for
easily customized applications and services.
The MX Series enables enterprise networks to profit from the tremendous growth of
Ethernet transport with the confidence that the platforms they install now will have the
performance and service flexibility to meet the challenges of their evolving requirements.
MX80 Features
• 80 Gbps capacity
• Two form factors:
MX480
- MX80: 4x10GbE+ 2 MIC slots (40-port GbE) + 1 Services MIC slot. The Modular
Interface Card, or MIC, plugs into the MPC to provide the physical interface for the
MX80. Up to 2 MICs are supported per MX80 with a variety of 1GbE and 10GbE MICs
available. The MX80-48T variant is a “fixed port” version of the MX80 which features
48 1GbE in place of the 2 MIC slots. The MX80 and MX80-48T can be deployed in
campus, small sites and small data center WAN connectivity.
- MX80-48T: 4x10GbE+ 48-port GbE + 1 Services MIC slot
• Redundant power supplies
MX240 Features
• 240 Gbps throughput capacity, 480 Gbps with 16 port 10GbE line card
• 3 DPC slots (2 with SCB redundancy)
• Complete redundancy with dual routing engines, dual forwarding engines, and dual
power supplies; redundancy provided with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)
MX480 Features
• 480 Gbps throughput capacity, 1.4 Tbps with 16 port 10GbE line card
• 6 DPC slots
MX960
• Complete redundancy with dual routing engines, dual forwarding engines, and dual
power supplies; redundancy provided with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)
MX960 Features
• 960 Gbps throughput capacity, 2.8 Tbps with 16 port 10GbE line card
• 12 DPC slots (11 with SCB redundancy)
• Complete redundancy with dual routing engines, dual forwarding engines, and dual
power supplies; redundancy provided with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)
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M Series and MX Series can be used in enterprises that are in need of high performance
and scalable network infrastructure and platforms that can easily scale with growth in
bandwidth demands. Below is a table that shows the differences and where they can
typically be deployed.
CAPABILITY
MX SERIES
M SERIES
Product positioning
Ethernet services router
Multiservice router
Target deployments
WAN gateway, campus, LAN
Campus backbone, WAN edge
aggregation and core, data
center aggregation and core
WAN interfaces
Ethernet
Ethernet, ATM, frame relay,
ethernet, SONET/SDH and TDM
ATM
Capacity
240 Gbps to 960 Gbps
8.4 Gbps to 320 Gbps
Switching
Yes
No
The Benefits of Deploying Juniper Networks
Enterprise Routers
Modern IP applications require a smart network that can meet enterprises’ diverse set of
requirements without compromise. A Juniper Networks enterprise router deployment adds
new levels of security, uptime, performance, and operations flexibility with many systems
and tools to assist network administrators.
JUNIPER NETWORKS
FEATURES
BENEFITS
ADVANTAGES
Feature richness without
Advanced Routing Features:
• Maximizes investment protection
compromising performance
• MPLS Network Virtualization
• Accelerates delivery of time-sensitive applications and
• Comprehensive quality of service features
services
• Ultra low latency multicast and unicast
• Improves user experience
• Integrated security services such as Network Address
Translation (NAT), firewall filters, stateful inspection
firewall, and IPsec encryption
High availability
Fully redundant hardware (including cooling, power
• Provide the highest level of redundancy and resiliency
supplies, Routing Engines, Switch Control Boards) and
to ensure that critical services and applications are
high availability features ensure that the network is always
available 24x7 and customers stay connected.
up and running including:
• Enables user productivity in the enterprise as network
• Modular operating system
down time is minimized.
• Separate data and control planes
• Enables service providers to maximize revenues and
• Graceful restart
ensure customer satisfaction.
• Non-Stop Routing (NSR)
• Fast Re-Route (FRR)
• In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
• VPLS multi-homing
High performance
Powered by Juniper’s Junos Trio chipset (MX Series only)
Industry leading performance enables the Juniper routers
or I-Chip ASIC, the Juniper routers include:
to support large number of users and applications, satisfy
• Industry’s most powerful 16-port 10GbE line card
critical applications requirements at the enterprise branch,
(120 Gbps full duplex throughput)
core and data center and at the SP edge, including voice,
video and data.
• Up to 2.8 Tbps throughput performance on the router
• Additional packet processing flexibility
• Scaling enhancements including route lookup, next hop,
IFL scaling, and interface accounting
• Additional microcode capacity that provides headroom
for the next three-to-five years of Junos operating
system features
• Enhanced multicast performance
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JUNIPER NETWORKS
FEATURES
BENEFITS
ADVANTAGES
Operational efficiency and
Junos operating system provides consistent operating
• Streamlines network operations and improves the
simplicity
environment:
availability, performance, and security while allowing
• One software code base across all routing platforms
rapid rollout of new hardware and services.
eases operations with straightforward software updates • Significant reduction in operational and capital
and upgrades
expenditures.
• Fast certification of releases and full interoperability
• Scale of routing platforms reduces # of elements
between products
needed to support a growing network.
• Features for small and regional remote offices help
lower operations costs for installing, managing,
monitoring, and maintaining equipment
• A 2-tier collapsed architecture enabling less power,
cooling and space consumption
• Open APIs for easily customized applications and
services.
• Centralized management which Automats control of a
large number of enterprise routers, eliminating the need
to manage individual routers
• Automates multiple functions such as configuration
management, inventory management, and system
administration
Breadth of portfolio
• Spectrum of products to connect various enterprise
Unmatched flexibility to meet the demands of widely
locations, including remote, branch, and regional offices, distributed enterprises that are deploying business-critical
as well as central offices, data centers, and enterprise
applications across the LAN and WAN.
backbones
• Complete range of scale with throughput capacity of 80
Gbps to 2.8 Tbps.
• WAN performance from broadband and T1/E1 through
OC-192/STM- 64 and 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• Wide variety of WAN interface options, including T1, E1,
E3, DS3, Fast Ethernet, serial, ISDN BRI, ADSL2/ADSL2+,
G.SHDSL, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet,
SONET/SDH, channelized IQ, and ATM2 IQ
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Junos Operating System in Your Network
Juniper’s proven Junos operating system is specifically designed for IP networks and
uniquely engineered for high availability and security, simplified operations, and flexible
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• High availability and security to assure services.
• Simplified, error-resilient operations, lowering total costs.
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• Continuous innovation to meet new requirements and enable new applications.
• Strict adherence to one operating system, enhanced through one process, developed
through one modular architecture is at the core of Junos OS. This foundation makes
possible the feature and operations innovation, as well as the high reliability and
Packet Forwarding
stability, that Junos OS is known for.
• Over the years Junos OS-based platforms have consistently raised the bar for scale,
performance, stability, control, and operations ease, leading the way for IP to become
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the convergence network of choice in all types of organizations.
One System
Junos OS architecture
The fundamental architecture and development processes of Junos OS have allowed it
to evolve to accommodate increasingly complex service needs with increasingly stringent
performance and reliability requirements.
One Operating System
Junos OS is the one code source for all Juniper Networks routers, from the J Series Services
Routers for branch offices, up to the Juniper Networks T Series Core Routers for very large
data centers. Because it provides a single code base, Junos OS eases operations tasks and
the knowledge that is necessary to maintain and update the system.
One Process
Juniper methodically enhances Junos OS through one carefully managed process, where
quality and schedule are the top priorities. We have never missed a scheduled release date
in more than eight years of consistent, stable software delivery.
The one main line of code assures that new versions include a complete superset of all
previously developed features and fixes. The tightly controlled release process demands
zero regression errors for all previously released features, fixing any and all critical bugs.
Junos OS has earned a reputation for stability and consistency because it avoids the many
internal permutations and custom patches that can cause habitual crashes. With Junos
OS, customers routinely deploy the first shipping version of each new release. Compare
this to many other network operating systems, for which customers typically wait two
years or more for generally deployable code.
The one train of code in Junos OS means there’s no need for a complex menu of platform-,
interface-, and feature-specific packages or lengthy testing by customers to assure
consistency and interoperability across different packages.
One Architecture
Underlying the methodical enhancement of Junos OS is one modular software
architecture, designed for flexible innovation across many types of hardware platforms.
The Junos OS architecture provides complete separation of the routing and packet
forwarding engines in all platforms to assure performance and to enhance the resiliency
and security of the software. The intelligent modularity of the architecture enables all
key functions to operate independently, since each has its own dedicated resources
and protected memory space. Key advantages of the advanced architecture include
the capability to avoid or contain faults, complete integration of new technologies, and
flexible adaptation to new hardware platforms.
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JUNIPER NETWORKS
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