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.
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.
* Data Center and Cloud Edge: The MX Series is ideal for data center/cloud edge applications, with support for multiple overlay encapsulation methods, including VXLAN, Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE, 802.1BR, SR-MPLS, and SR-V6. The MX Series also incorporates data plane security with inline MACsec in the MPC-10E line cards,making it a perfect fit for data center and cloud deployments.
* Enterprise WAN: Enterprises and government agencies worldwide use MX Series platforms to build their own overlay network on top of a service provider’s Layer 2 or MPLS network, using encapsulation technologies such as MPLSoGRE, VXLAN, and IPsec for secure transport.
* Universal Metro/Aggregation: MX Series platforms offer a full suite of routing and switching features, allowing you to choose a deployment model that best fits your business and technical needs. The MX Series can be deployed as IP/IP VPN edge routers,Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and virtual private LAN service (VPLS) provider edge (VPLS-PE) routers, MPLS label-switching (LSR) routers,and as Layer 2 Ethernet switches or Layer 3 IP routers.
* Mobile Backhaul: In addition to switching, routing, and security features, MX Series platforms support highly scalable and reliable hardware-based timing that meets the strictest LTE requirements, including Synchronous Ethernet for frequency and the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for frequency and phase synchronization. In addition, the MX104 is ETSI 300-compliant, enabling deployment in next-generation mobile applications such as 5G.