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Product Description
The continuous expansion of mobile, video, and cloud-based services is disrupting
traditional networks and impacting the businesses that rely on them. While annual double-
digit 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 agreements (SLAs).
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 network design, reducing OpEx. It also enables the
profitable delivery of a broad range of business, residential, mobile,
cable, data center, and cloud services while seamlessly supporting
traditional and emerging network architectures with adaptive
software and pervasive security. The flexibility of the MX Series is
enabled by the programmable Trio chipset, which allows MX Series
platforms to add support for new features, such as telemetry,
without costly hardware upgrades. Additionally, support for the
Junos Automation Toolkit and the Juniper Extension Toolkit provide
modern programming languages that reduce costs and increase
profitability by improving productivity and customization.
This agility is evident in the wide variety of MX Series use cases
that have been proven in the world's largest and most demanding
networks, including:
• Business Edge: MX Series platforms support the broadest
range of L2/L2.5/L3 VPN services which, in combination with
multilayer, multiprotocol resiliency, ensure that customer SLAs
are met under all network conditions.
• Internet/Peering Gateway: MX Series platforms support the
high performance, reliability, scale, and density needed to
efficiently peer with Internet and other service provider
networks.
• Broadband Network Gateway (BNG): MX Series platforms
offer the highest subscriber density and most sophisticated
broadband edge features available in the industry.
• Universal SDN Gateway: The MX Series offers a
comprehensive solution for interconnecting virtual and
physical networks-as well as between virtual networks
operating with different technologies-via support for
Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), dynamic tunnels using MPLSoGRE
or Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) encapsulation, virtual
routing and forwarding (VRF) tables, E-VPNs, and Network
Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), along with the ability to
send traffic between VRF and global routing tables based on
configuration and policy.
