Ex4500 Switches Hardware Overview - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.3 - SOFTWARE Manual

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EX4500 Switches Hardware Overview

EX4500 Switches
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OS for EX Series Ethernet Switches, Release 10.3
Rear Panel of an EX4200 Switch
EX3200 and EX4200 Switches Hardware Overview on page 26
Juniper Networks EX4500 Ethernet Switches provide high performance, scalable
connectivity, and carrier-class reliability for high-density environments such as
campus-aggregation and data-center networks.
You can manage EX4500 switches using the same interfaces that you use for managing
other devices running the Juniper Networks Junos operating system (Junos OS)—the
command-line interface (CLI) and the J-Web graphical interface.
The Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches run Junos OS, which provides Layer
2 and Layer 3 switching, routing, and security services. The same Junos OS code base
that runs on EX Series switches also runs on all Juniper Networks J Series, M Series, MX
Series, and T Series routers.
EX4500 Switches on page 30
Uplink Modules on page 31
EX4500 switches provide connectivity for high-density 10-Gigabit Ethernet data center
top-of-rack and aggregation deployments. Typically, EX4500 switches are used in data
centers where they can be positioned as the top device in a rack to provide connectivity
for all devices in the rack.
The EX4500 switch is 2 rack units (2 U) in size. Each EX4500 switch is designed to
optimize rack space utilization and cabling. See Figure 1 on page 30 and Figure 2 on
page 31.
Figure 1: EX4500 Switch Front
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