Mx240 System Overview; Benefits Of The Mx240 Router - Juniper MX240 Hardware Manual

MX240 System Overview

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The MX240 router is an Ethernet-optimized edge router that provides both switching and carrier-class
Ethernet routing. The MX240 enables a wide range of business and residential applications and services,
including high-speed transport and VPN services, next-generation broadband multiplay services, high-speed
Internet and data center internetworking.
Benefits of the MX240 Router
System Capacity—MX240 provides 3 Tbps of system capacity for space-constrained cloud, enterprise,
data center, service provider, cable, and mobile service core deployments.
Always-on infrastructure base—MX Series routers ensure network and service availability with a broad
set of multilayered physical, logical, and protocol-level resiliency aspects. Junos OS Virtual Chassis
technology on MX Series routers supports chassis-level redundancy and enables you to manage two
routers as a single element. Multichassis link aggregation group (MC-LAG) implementation supports
stateful chassis, card, and port redundancy.
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.
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.
Junos Continuity and Unified In-Service Software Upgrade (Unified ISSU)—With the Junos continuity
plug-in package, you can perform a smooth upgrade when new hardware is installed in your MX Series
router.
Unified in-service software upgrade (unified ISSU) enables software upgrades and changes without
disrupting network traffic.
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