MX480
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| FPC/PIC Slots | 6 DPC |
| Agg. Bandwidth | 480 Gbit/s |
| FPC Types | DPC |
| PIC Style | DPC-Style |
| Power Supplies | 4 (2+2 DC, 2+2 AC) |
| Switch Board | SCB (1+1) |
| Release date | shipping November 2007 with JunOS 8.4R1 |
The MX480 (Codename: Calypso) is the second member of the MX-Series family, and is designed as a competitor to the Cisco 6506/7606 and Alcatel 7750 SR7 routers.
The MX480 has 8 horizontal front-end slots, two (2) of which are reserved for switch control boards (with onboard RE-1300 or RE-2000 routing engines), and six (6) of which are available for physical interfaces. The MX480 is 8RU high, and under 800mm deep, with side-to-side airflow. The MX series eliminates the concept of FPC+PIC, and uses new full-height cards which combine FPC+PIC functionality (including Tunnel PIC), known as DPCs (Dense Port Concentrators). By JUNOS 8.4 in August 2007, the only two DPCs are a 4-port 10GE XFP-based card (LAN/WAN PHY), and a 40-port 1GE SFP-based card.
Innovations
The MX480 is Juniper's second ethernet-centric "switch" like product, and marks the introduction of the DPC interface card.
Tips
It should be noted that the MX480 runs in "Triton" (i.e. layer-2-only) mode by default, regardless of the type of linecards installed. "set chassis network-services ip" is required to change to normal "ip" mode in order to use the full capabilities of "-R" cards.
Categories: Hardware | MX-series | Stub
