Juniper Networks Introduces MX960 Ethernet Services Router

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Juniper Networks introduces the MX960 Ethernet Services Router. The first in a series of platforms optimized for emerging Ethernet network architectures and services, the MX960 is purpose-built for the most demanding carrier applications and extends the company’s existing Ethernet products and technologies introduced earlier in the year. The MX960 leverages the JUNOS operating system that enables 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 MX960 delivers a combination of features and capabilities previously unattainable in Carrier Ethernet deployments.

The new MX960 platform is the industry’s largest capacity Carrier Ethernet platform with up to 960 gigabits per second of switching and routing capacity — enabling reduced costs and increased revenue per platform with scale to protect customers’ investments. Offering efficient support of high-density interfaces and high-capacity switching throughput, the MX960 enables a wide range of business and residential applications and services, including high-speed transport and VPN services and next-generation broadband multiplay aggregation.

New Dense Port Concentrators (DPC) cards, available on the MX960, combine high port density with a distributed architecture and on-board processing, ensuring that performance scales with the addition of interfaces. The MX960 features superior QoS at the interface level, enabling providers to ensure services receive the appropriate level of quality regardless of traffic conditions. This advanced capability will enable providers to offer a variety of Layer 2 and Layer 3 services—such as VLAN/transparent LAN, L2/L3 VPNs, voice over IP and video over IP—over Ethernet, with the ability to provide guaranteed SLAs. Building upon these customer requirements, the MX960 provides up to twelve 40 Gbps slots in a single chassis and supports Juniper’s new DPC cards, allowing customers to take advantage of unprecedented port density — up to 480 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 48 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet per system.

The distributed intelligence and packet processing of the MX960 and DPC cards are powered by the I-chip, Juniper’s next-generation packet forwarding engine technology. By increasing scalability and packet performance and enhancing Ethernet-centric quality of service features, the MX960 will enable carriers to increase the number of services and customers supported per platform without negatively impacting performance. This increases service flexibility and can also drive down both capital and operational expenses.

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