M-series Multiservice Edge Routing Portfolio

Overview

Juniper Networks M-series multiservice edge routers combine best-in-class IP/MPLS capabilities with unmatched reliability, stability, security, and service richness. They allow enterprises and service providers to consolidate multiple networks into a single IP/MPLS infrastructure by using a hardware-based approach combined with the highly scalable, secure, and reliable JUNOS® software. As a result, enterprises and service providers enjoy maximized revenue and minimized operational and capital costs.

Features

Juniper Networks M-series multiservice edge routers are deployed in the world's largest networks, delivering advanced IP/MPLS edge routing services at scale and helping service providers transform their business. Constructed with clean separation between the control plane, forwarding plane and services plane, the M-series routers support multiple services without compromise on a single platform — maximizing revenue and minimizing operational and capital costs. Services supported include a broad array of VPNs, network-based security, real-time voice and video, bandwidth on demand, rich multicast of premium content, IPv6 services, granular accounting and much more. This IP/MPLS edge routing service portfolio continues to grow with every release of JUNOS software, leveraging the tremendous flexibility and performance headroom of the service-built architecture.

Enhanced for the Edge

The versatile IP/MPLS M-series Multiservice Edge Routing platforms can be deployed at the edge of provider networks, in small and medium cores, and in peering, route reflector and data-center applications. Recent M-series edge routing platform innovations have dramatically expanded edge capabilities by leveraging the highly programmable Internet Processor II ASIC and IP/MPLS-rich JUNOS software. M-series routers are now deployed and scaling services at the edge of some of the world's largest production networks.

Consistent Services to All Customers

The M-series Multiservice Edge Routing portfolio spans from over 7 Gbps up to 320 Gbps of throughput, including the M7i, M10i, M40e, M120 and M320 platforms. The same scalable and production-hardened JUNOS software runs on all IP/MPLS M-series platforms, making a consistent set of capabilities available at all network locations–regardless of customer connection or serving-area density.

Access-agnostic, and with Leading Density

With its broad interface portfolio, a single M-series Multiservice Edge Routing platform can provide a single point of edge aggregation for thousands of customers over any access type — including ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet and TDM–and at any speed from DS0 up to OC-192/STM-64 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Leveraging dense Ethernet and highly channelized interfaces, the IP/MPLS M-series platforms boast leading densities.

Most Comprehensive VPN Portfolio

The M-series Multiservice Edge Routing platforms also support the industry's most comprehensive VPN portfolio with the ability to simultaneously run and scale Layer 2 virtual circuits, Layer 2 VPNs, Layer 2.5 Interworking VPNs, Layer 3 2547 VPNs, VPLS, IPSec, GRE, IP over IP and other tunneling mechanisms — with no performance compromise. This broad set of VPNs meets the needs of the widest possible set of customers, maximizing the service provider's revenue while minimizing required infrastructure. For example, a provider can use Layer 3 VPNs to deliver an outsourced routing service and can also use Layer 2 VPNs to provide a point-to-point ATM service over a common IP/MPLS infrastructure.

Granular QoS and Statistics

Rich packet processing enables the M-series Multiservice Edge Routing platforms to support multiple levels of granular QoS per port, per logical circuit (DLCI, VC/VP, VLAN), and per channel (to DS0) for traffic prioritization. These comprehensive QoS functions include classification, rate limiting, shaping, weighted round-robin scheduling, strict priority queuing, weighted random early detection, random early detection and packet marking. For network convergence applications, Layer 2 CoS can be mapped to Layer 3 CoS on a per DLCI, per VP/VC, or per-VLAN basis. Simultaneously, extensive statistics can be collected and diagnostics performed at this same level of granularity to enable flexible billing, traffic planning and rapid troubleshooting.

Rich Packet Processing and Advanced Services

A broad portfolio of edge routing services can be layered on top of VPNs for additional revenue generation. A comprehensive suite of multicast capabilities, including multicast over MPLS VPNs, enables efficient distribution of premium content. Hardware-based IPv6 and a number of IPv6 migration tools, such as IPv6 over MPLS, ease access to the benefits of this next-generation IP protocol without performance compromise. NAT and stateful firewall can be configured per VRF to enable network-based security for additional revenues. IPSec can be used to support a premium security service for end users with high security requirements. The M-series service-built edge is continuously enhanced with new packet processing capabilities to ensure maximum revenue-generation opportunities.

The latest additions in term of advanced services capabilities on the M120 and M320 are the Session Border Controller (SBC) and Dynamic Application Awareness (DAA) applications supported on the Multiservices PIC. The SBC application enables the efficient deployment of scalable multimedia services resulting in both CapEx and OpEx benefits. DAA allows better visibility on the traffic flows thanks to Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) analysis and supports applications like application-aware traffic prioritization, Peer-to-Peer traffic mitigation or Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) business-class 'clean-pipe' services.

Highly Reliable

The M-series Multiservice Edge Routing service-built architecture has been constructed with scale and stability in mind, including the modular and fault-protected design of JUNOS software and a rigorous system testing process. All M-series routers offer redundant power and cooling. The M10i, M40e, M120 and M320 routers offer fully redundant hardware, including redundant routing engines and Switching/Forwarding Engine Boards. JUNOS software features enhance this redundant architecture. For example, nonstop forwarding is enabled in the event of a routing engine failure, via a hitless switchover, and in-service software upgrades are supported when a minor software upgrade is required. Other high-availability capabilities include graceful protocol routing restart, MPLS fast reroute, VRRP, SONET APS, SDH MSP, BFD and LACP.

Robust Security

All IP/MPLS M-series platforms support highly scalable J-Protect filtering capabilities, unicast reverse path forwarding and high-performance rate limiting for industry-leading DOS attack protection. The J-Protect security capabilities of the M-series platforms can be further enhanced with the Adaptive Services PIC, hardware that accelerates additional network-based security services such as high-speed NAT, stateful firewall with attack detection, DPI/IDP capabilities and J-Flow accounting. With the rich feature set of JUNOS software combined with industry-leading ASIC technology, M-series service-built edge routing provides a new level of reliable and secure service delivery at the edge of service-provider networks.

Modules

• Juniper Networks Enhanced IQ PICs 519KB
• Enhanced IQ2 Ethernet Services Engine (ESE) PIC410 KB
• Juniper Networks Multi-Rate SONET/SDH PICs961 KB
• ATM
• DS3, E1, E3, and T1
• IP Services
• Circuit Emulation PICs: 4-Port ChOC3/STM1 and 12-Port T1/E1 1.31 MB
• Ethernet (IQ)119 KB
• Juniper Networks IQ PICs455 KB
• IQ2 Ethernet Services Engine (ESE) PIC489 KB
• Serial76 KB
• Juniper Networks High-Speed SONET/SDH PICs411 KB
• Juniper Networks M- and T-series PIC/FPC Compatibility Matrix210 KB

Specs

M-series Routing Portfolio728 KB

Ordering

Note: See price list for spare parts model numbers.

Applications

The versatile M-series family can be deployed in both service-provider and high-end enterprise environments

Service Provider

In service-provider environments, the M-series router is deployed predominantly as a multiservice edge router but can also be deployed in small and medium cores, peering, route reflector, multicast, mobile and data-center applications.

Enterprise

Large enterprises typically deploy M7i or M10i in a number of different locations, including Internet gateway router, WAN router, campus core router, regional backbone and data center.

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Literature

Datasheets

• M-series Routing Portfolio728 KB
• M120 Multiservice Edge Router566 KB
• Juniper Networks M7i and M10i Multiservice Routers 758 KB

Application Notes

• NGEN MVPN BGP Route Types and Encodings235 KB
• Filter-Based Forwarding317 KB
• An OTN Pluggable Interface Providing IP over DWDM in Router-Router IP Transport540 KB
• Applications for an Independent Control Plane4.15 MB

Case Studies

• Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech)192 KB
• Philadelphia Stock Exchange180 KB
• Suffolk University179 KB
• Interop168 KB

White Papers

• Optimizing Media-Rich Content Delivery with Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths 350 KB
• The Benefits of P2MP Label Switched Paths for MPLS Networks, Ovum Analyst Paper 160 KB
• A Toolkit Approach to Enabling VPN Services, IDC Analyst Paper 266 KB
• Emerging Multicast VPN Applications 378 KB
• Cross-Domain VPLS Deployment Strategies480 KB
• LDP-BGP VPLS Internetworking1.27 MB
• Energy Efficiency for the Network Equipment: Two Steps Beyond Greenwashing168 KB
  Measurement-based approach for defining the network efficiency with respect to power consumption
• Multicast Architectures in Crossbar-Based Routers356 KB
• Network Operating System Evolution410 KB
  Detailed treatment of network OS evolution including architectural challenges, tradeoffs, opportunities, next-gen implications.
• Best Practices for Video Transit on an MPLS Backbone731 KB
• Efficient Scaling for Multiservice Networks495 KB
• Optimizing the Data Center with Juniper Networks1.4 MB
• Integrating Optical Transport into Routers778 KB
• Video Distribution in a Hybrid Multicast- Unicast World1 MB
• Integrating Ethernet in Carrier-Class Networks: Products and Technologies for Carrier-Class Ethernet1 MB
• Building Next-Gen Points of Presence: Cost-Effective PoP Consolidation with Juniper Routers533 KB
• Securing Provider Backbone Networks: Packet Filters, Traffic Shaping and Related Best Practices558 KB
• Characteristics of Switches and Routers348 KB
• Multiservice Networking with the M-series 955 KB
• MPLS VPN Provisioning 59 KB
• Migrating Customers to Ethernet Services851 KB
• Network Evolution without Compromise288 KB

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