Routers & Gateways

The Juniper Networks® ACX7000 line is designed to help operators achieve their capital, operational, and user experience goals. Part of the Juniper Networks ACX7000 Family of routers, the ACX7024 delivers exceptional TCO, investment protection, and supports Juniper® Cloud Metro for 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud applications. This makes it ideal for service provider, enterprise, and residential use cases requiring a highly flexible, compact, multiservice, and environmentally industrial-rated platform.

ACX7000 Family Overview

ACX7000 Family routers are purpose-built for the IP service fabric underlay of a Juniper Cloud Metro. They leverage the industry's fastest chipset, provide a unique balance of system design, and set new benchmarks for sustainable, high-performance platforms. Managed by Junos® OS Evolved and Juniper Paragon™ Automation Portfolio, the ACX7000 routers are embedded with Paragon Active Assurance and with Zero Trust security built in, enabling operators to deliver highly differentiated customer experiences. Available in environmentally industrial-rated, fixed, fixed plus modular, and fully modular designs, these energy and footprint efficient multiservice routers support high-precision timing technologies and are engineered for service provider, enterprise, residential (including PON with the Juniper Unified PON Solution), IoT, and 4G/5G mobile applications.

ACX7024 Product Offering

ACX7024, from the ACX7000 line, is an industrial-rated (itemp), compact, fixed, 1 U (24 cm deep), high-performance multiservice router. Next-generation silicon delivers 360 Gbps of throughput, a comprehensive feature set, and the scale needed to support the performance and bandwidth requirements of today and tomorrow. ACX7024 fixed ports include 24 multi-rate (SFP28) ports, each configurable as 1GbE, 10GbE, and 25GbE, enabling operators to perform today's most common upgrades on a port-byport basis. An additional 4 fixed (QSFP-28) 100GbE uplinks are available to support scale.

The ACX7024 incorporates 6 integrated fans (5+1 redundancy) for front-to-back and side-to-side (with baffle) airflow. It comes with 2x field replaceable AC or DC power supplies (1+1 redundancy). Costeffective and efficient thermal design enables unrestricted highpower 100GbE ZR transceiver use across all supporting ports. It incorporates precision timing capabilities, including advanced Class C timing for low-latency 5G services and GPS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) transceiver for best-in-class network experience. It supports next-generation protocols, including segment routing, SRv6, MPLS, and Ethernet VPN (EVPN)-Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), and any overlay, underlay, or service. It delivers service-assured network slicing, network intelligence, and Juniper Paragon Automation for network efficiency and operational simplicity.

Many networks have seen benefits from convergence in the core and the edge, a similar transformation is clearly required in the access network. Universal Access is an architectural concept that achieves this objective by extending operational intelligence from the edge to access network. Juniper Networks ACX Series Universal Access Routers are purpose built to support adaptive services architecture, enabling rapid deployment of access services and transforming the network to create a seamless end-to-end service delivery platform. ACX series being a family of hardened universal access routers can be deployed in a variety of service provider use cases namely, mobile backhaul, residential and business access, as well as mission critical enterprise use cases demanding high availability operation in extreme environments such as power utilities, oil & gas, mining, transportation, defense and public safety industries.

The ACX4000 is a 2.5RU, actively cooled access router that is environmentally hardened for field deployment. This versatile, high-performance mobile access platform runs on the Junos operating system.

The ACX4000 has two modular interface card (MIC) slots that can house 16 T1/E1 ports, 6 GbE copper/fiber combination ports, or 4 CHOC3/STM-1 ports, which creates a mobile access platform versatile enough for any deployment.

Besides 2 MIC slots, the platform also provides a number of fixed ports; 2x 10GbE, 2x GbE SFP, 8x GbE combination (copper/fiber).

Fixed and mobile operators are increasingly challenged to deliver high bandwidth services while growth in average revenue or margin per user fails to justify significant infrastructure investments. While many networks have seen benefits from convergence in the core and on the edge, a similar transformation is clearly required in the access network. Universal Access is an architecture that extends operational intelligence to that network. Juniper Networks ACX Series Universal Access Routers are built to support an adaptive services architecture, enabling rapid deployment of access services, and transforming the network to create a seamless end-to-end service delivery platform.

Fixed and mobile operators are increasingly challenged to deliver high bandwidth services while growth in average revenue or margin per user fails to justify significant infrastructure investments. While many networks have seen benefits from convergence in the core and on the edge, a similar transformation is clearly required in the access network. Universal Access is an architecture that extends operational intelligence to that network. Juniper Networks ACX Series Universal Access Routers are built to support an adaptive services architecture, enabling rapid deployment of access services, and transforming the network to create a seamless end-to-end service delivery platform.