A robust portfolio of SDN-enabled routing platforms that provide industry-leading system capacity, density, and performance with unparalleled longevity. MX Series routers are key to digital transformation for service providers, cloud operators, and enterprises. This router establishes a new industry standard for Carrier Ethernet capacity, density and performance.

The first in a series of Juniper platforms optimized for emerging Ethernet network architectures and services, the MX-series is purpose built for the most demanding carrier applications. The MX-series leverages the JUNOS operating system to enable carriers to seamlessly and cost-effectively deploy Ethernet and accelerate their next-generation network deployments. By combining a best-in-class hardware platform with the reliability and service flexibility of JUNOS, the MX-series delivers a combination of features and capabilities previously unattainable in Carrier Ethernet deployments.

Service Agility
Supports broadest range of business, residential, infrastructure, and enterprise applications and services.

Best-in-Class Architecture
A highly redundant platform powered by Junos OS, the MX Series offers always-on reliability and high performance at massive scale.

SDN Enabled
Seamless integration with standard-based SDN controllers such as the Contrail Cloud Platform makes the MX Series platform an SDN gateway between physical and virtual network elements.

Service Integration
Integrates a wide set of services—including carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT), stateful firewall, and deep packet inspection (DPI)—to address the widest range of applications and support network and service consolidation.

Physical and Virtual, with No Compromise
Consistent feature set across physical and virtual MX Series platforms ensures operational and service consistency.

Long-Term Investment Protection
Offers future-proof scale for long-term growth as well as investment protecting upgrade paths for existing MX Series customers.

Forming the foundation of the core routing architecture, PTX Series routers provide power, scale, and performance with custom silicon. They support high-density 100G and 400G, optimized for core and data center use cases.

Compact Form Factor
PTX3000 is the industry’s only 300 mm ETSI-compliant core router.

Collapsed Metro Transport
The only routers in the world that can fully converge IP with optical in a package that can be deployed in any telco environment.

WAN SDN Traffic Optimization
NorthStar Controller provides global network visibility and intimate traffic engineering control for PTX Series routers.

Industry-Leading Density
PTX Series routers offer a fixed form factor of 16 Tbps and up to 14.4 Tbps per slot.

Enormous Scalability
Powered by our custom Triton silicon and with up to 14.4 Tbps per slot, PTX Series routers enable you to increase capacity without expanding your network or facilities footprint.

ACX Series Universal Metro Routers simplify network architectures and dramatically reduce CapEx and OpEx by eliminating network overlays. This comprehensive portfolio of access and aggregation solutions address the challenges and opportunities of the Cloud + 5G + AI era.

The MEF 2.0-compliant routers support use cases such as Ethernet business services, residential aggregation, mobile networking, and industrial networks with solutions that extend from provider edge to access network.

MEF CE 2.0–Compliant
The ACX Series product line supports MEF CE 2.0 standards for E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, and E-Access services.

Operationally Efficient
Seamless MPLS minimizes operational overhead, and zero touch deployment reduces operational cost.

Timing and Synchronization
Proven Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) and IEEE 1588-2008 clocking technologies provide the industry’s highest quality of experience and meet strict LTE-Advanced requirements.

Environmentally Hardened Design
Hardened design with passive cooling is ideal for outdoor and industrial deployment use cases.

Juniper Networks legacy products include the entire line of Juniper EX series J and MX series, as well as ACX, BX, CTP, ISG, NSM, MX, QFX, SRX / IDP, SSG, STRM, TCA, VXA, WLC, WX, WLM, Infranet series, NetScreen and SecureAccess, as well as legacy Neoteris and Global Pro.

Additional Juniper legacy options include Interface Options, also called Line Cards, which allow for customization of chassis-based router port configurations. The MX Series Universal Edge Routers support different types of interface options, including the following below.

Dense Port Concentrators (DPCs):
A DPC provides multiple physical interfaces and Packet Forwarding Engines on a single board that installs into a slot within the MX240, MX480, and MX960 routers.
 

Modular Interface Cards (MICs):
MICs install into Modular Port Concentrators (MPCs)—MICs provide physical interfaces for the router, and install into the MPCs, which provide packet forwarding services. MPCs are inserted into a slot in an MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, or MX2020 router. On MX5, MX10, MX40, MX80, and MX104 routers, MICs install directly into the router chassis. There are also fixed-configuration MPCs, with built-in network ports or services functionality, which do not accept MICs.

Physical Interface Cards (PICs):
PICs install into Flexible PIC Concentrators (FPCs)—PICs and FPCs function similarly to MICs and MPCs. PICs provide physical interfaces for the router, and install into the FPCs, which provide packet forwarding services. FPCs are installed into a slot in an MX240, MX480, or MX960 router.