Juniper MX204 Router

The Juniper Networks MX204 Universal Routing Platform is an Ethernet-optimized edge router with 400-Gbps capacity that provides both switching and carrier-class Ethernet routing. The MX204 router runs Junos operating system (Junos OS), enabling a wide range of business and residential applications and services, including high-speed transport and virtual private network (VPN) services, next-generation broadband multiplay services, and high-volume Internet data center internetworking. Each router provides full duplex, high-density Ethernet interfaces and high-capacity switching throughput and uses the Junos Trio chipset for increased scalability of Layer 2 and Layer 3 packet forwarding, buffering, and queuing.

Compact Design: Full-featured edge router offers ultra-high density and throughput in a compact 1 U form factor.

Power and Cooling: Provides excellent power efficiency, consuming just 0.9 W/Gb—a critical consideration for cloud-grade and collocation networks; offers redundant power supplies and fan and is NEBS-compliant.

System Capacity: MX204 provides 400 Gbps of throughput and supports high-density 100-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and also discrete and breakout 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 1-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces—all in a single rack unit while consuming only 0.9 W/Gb.

The Programmable Chipset: The chipset implemented in the MX Series routers has a programmable forwarding data structure that allows fast microcode changes in the hardware itself, and a programmable lookup engine that allows inline service processing. the chip’s programmable QoS engine supports coarse and fine-grained queuing to address the requirements of core, edge, and aggregation use cases.

Application-Aware Networking: On MX Series routers you can use deep packet inspection to detect applications, and by using the user-defined policies, you can determine traffic treatment for each application. This feature enables highly customized and differentiated services at scale.