Services Processing Card-Mx-Spc3; Services Processing Card-Mx-Spc3 Services Card; Mx-Spc3 Services Card Overview And Support On Mx240, Mx480, And Mx960 Routers - Juniper MX960 Hardware Manual

CHAPTER 6
Services Processing Card—MX-SPC3
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Services Processing Card—MX-SPC3 Services Card
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MX-SPC3 Services Card Overview and Support on MX240, MX480, and MX960 Routers
The MX-SPC3 Services Card is a Services Processing Card (SPC) that provides additional processing power
to run Next Gen Services. The MX-SPC3 contains two Services Processing Units (SPUs) with 128 GB of
memory per SPU. Line cards such as DPCs, MPCs, and MICs, intelligently distribute all traffic traversing
the router to the SPUs to have services processing applied to it.
Next Gen Services provide the best of both routing and security features on MX Series routers MX240,
MX480, and MX960. All Next Gen Services are provided by the MX-SPC3 Services Card. Next Gen Services
provide capabilities for manipulating traffic before it's delivered to its destination.
NOTE: The only services card that supports Next Gen Services is the MX-SPC3.
The MX-SPC3 services card is compatible end-to-end with the following MX Series services cards and
Routing Engines for MX240, MX480, and MX960 routers:
MX Enhanced Switch Control Board: SCBE, SCBE2
Routing Engines: RE-S-1800x4, RE-S-1300, RE-S-2000
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