Switches & Bridges

EX4100-H Ethernet access switches: Ruggedized and reliable Fanless, secure, and cloud-ready design: Tailored for harsh indoor and outdoor environments where extended temperature, potential physical impact, and vibration conditions are common Use case examples: - EV charging stations - Petrol/gas stations - Industrial automation and manufacturing - Remote surveillance - Transportation (rail, marine, automotive) Integrated with Juniper Mist Wired Assurance for seamless cloud management Leverages Mist AI to simplify operations and enhance device visibility Delivers high-quality network services in extreme conditions including freezing and scorching temperatures.

Product description

The Juniper Networks® EX4100-H ruggedized line of Ethernet switches offers a fanless, secure, cloud-ready portfolio of access switches with extended operating temperature range that is ideal for indoor and outdoor applications, such as EV charging stations, petrol/gas stations, industrial automation and manufacturing, remote surveillance, transportation (rail, marine, automotive), where extended temperature, potential physical impact, and vibration conditions are common. The EX4100-H switches combine the simplicity of the cloud, the power of Mist AI™ , and a robust hardware foundation with best-in-class security and performance to deliver a differentiated approach to access switching in the cloud, mobile, and IoT era. With Juniper® Mist™ Wired Assurance, the EX4100-H line of switches can be effortlessly onboarded, configured, and managed from the cloud. This simplifies operations, improves visibility, and ensures a much better experience for connected devices.

Key features:

• Cloud-ready, driven by Mist AI with Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Marvis Virtual Network Assistant
• Fanless switch with extended operating temperature range -40C to +75C
• Dry Contact Alarms: two in and one out
• Dual redundant PSUs: two AC PSUs or two DC PSUs or one AC and one DC PSU
• Junos feature parity with EX4100 switches
• Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) to the access layer
• Standards-based microsegmentation using group-based policies (GBPs)
• Switch-to-switch encryption using Media Access Control Security (MACsec) AES256
• IEEE 802.3bz Multigigabit
• IEEE 802.3bt Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE++)
• Flow-based telemetry to monitor traffic flows for anomaly detection and the ability to measure packet delays and report drop reasons
• Precision Timing Protocol-Transparent Clock
• 10-member Virtual Chassis support

Offering a full suite of Layer 2 and Layer 3 capabilities, the EX4100-H enables multiple deployments, including campus and branch. As scale requirements increase, Juniper's Virtual Chassis technology allows up to 10 EX4100-H switches to be seamlessly interconnected and managed as a single device, delivering a scalable, pay-as-you-grow solution for expanding network environments.

The EX4100-H family of Ethernet switches consists of the following models:

• The EX4100-H-12MP, offering 4 x 100MB/1GbE/2.5GbE and 8 x 10 MB/100 MB/1GbE PoE++ access ports, delivering up to 90 W per port with an overall total PoE budget of 360 W using two power supplies. A combination of two AC PSUs or two DC PSUs or one AC PSU and one DC PSU can be used at the same time. PSUs are external, hot swapable and field replaceable (FRU). It includes 2 x 1/10GbE SFP+ fixed uplink ports and 2 x 1/10GbE SFP+ ports to support Virtual Chassis connections that can be reconfigured for use as Ethernet ports for uplink connectivity.

Featuring up to 72 wire-speed 1GbE or 10GbE small form-factor pluggable and pluggable plus transceiver (SFP/SFP+) ports, and up to 12 wire-speed 40GbE quad SFP+ transceiver (QSFP+) ports in a compact one rack unit (1 U) platform, the Juniper Networks® EX4600 Ethernet Switch delivers 1.44 Tbps of Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity to networked devices such as secure routers, servers, and other switches. The EX4600 base switch provides 24 fixed 10GbE SFP/SFP+ ports and 4 fixed 40GbE QSFP+ ports. A total of four models are available: two featuring AC power supplies and front-to back or back-to-front airflow; and two featuring DC power supplies and front-to-back or back-to-front airflow.

Product Overview

The EX4100-H ruggedized line of Ethernet access switches is tailored for harsh indoor and outdoor environments where extended temperature, potential physical impact, and vibration conditions are common. Use cases include but are not limited to:

• EV charging stations
• Petrol/gas stations
• Industrial automation and manufacturing
• Remote surveillance
• Transportation

As part of the underlying infrastructure for Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, the EX4100-H is purpose-built for and managed by the cloud. Mist AI provides visibility into the experience of connected devices, enabling streamlined operations while delivering an experience-first approach to access layer switching.

Product Description

The Juniper Networks® EX4100-H ruggedized line of Ethernet switches offers a fanless, secure, reliable, cloud-native portfolio delivering high-quality network services in extreme conditions, including freezing and scorching temperatures, with an extended operating temperature range for extreme indoor and outdoor applications. EX4100-H switches are ideal for use cases where extreme temperatures, potential physical impact, and vibrations are common.

EX4100-H switches combine the simplicity of the cloud, the power of Mist AI™, and a robust, high-performance hardware foundation to deliver a differentiated approach to access switching in the cloud, mobile, and IoT era. With Juniper® Mist™Wired Assurance, you can effortlessly onboard, configure, and manage EX4100-H switches from the cloud. This simplifies operations and improves visibility and troubleshooting, ensuring optimal experiences for connected devices.

Key features of the EX4000 line include:

• Cloud-native, AI-Native switches with Wired Assurance and Marvis VNA
• Fanless with an extended operating temperature range of -40°C to +75°C for harsh environments
• Ruggedized, compact form factor for easy installation in tight spaces
• Compliant to IP30 and supports a relative humidity range of 5% to 95%, ensuring non-condensing operation
• Meets many industrial certifications, making it suitable for use in a wide range of applications that need high tolerances for constant vibrations, shocks, and electromagnetic immunity
• Dry contact alarm: two alarms in and one alarm out to signal external sensors
• Dual redundant PSUs: two AC PSUs or two DC PSUs or one AC and one DC PSU 
• Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) to the access layer
• Standards-based microsegmentation using group-based policies (GBPs)

Featuring up to 72 wire-speed 1GbE or 10GbE small form-factor pluggable and pluggable plus transceiver (SFP/SFP+) ports, and up to 12 wire-speed 40GbE quad SFP+ transceiver (QSFP+) ports in a compact one rack unit (1 U) platform, the Juniper Networks® EX4600 Ethernet Switch delivers 1.44 Tbps of Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity to networked devices such as secure routers, servers, and other switches. The EX4600 base switch provides 24 fixed 10GbE SFP/SFP+ ports and 4 fixed 40GbE QSFP+ ports. A total of four models are available: two featuring AC power supplies and front-to back or back-to-front airflow; and two featuring DC power supplies and front-to-back or back-to-front airflow.

The Juniper Networks® EX4300 line of Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combines the carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, campus, and branch office environments. Both 1GbE access and multigigabit switch options are available.

Offering a full suite of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching capabilities, the EX4300 enables a variety of deployments, including campus, branch, and data center access. A single 24-port or 48-port EX4300 switch can be deployed initially. As requirements grow, Juniper's Virtual Chassis technology allows any combination of up to 10 EX4300 and/or EX4600 switches to be seamlessly interconnected and managed as a single device, delivering a scalable, pay-as-you-grow solution for expanding network environments. A pair of 32-port EX4300 fiber switches can also be deployed as a consolidated aggregation or small core switch. Additionally, the EX4300 can integrate with the Juniper Networks QFX5100 line of 10GbE and 40GbE data center access switches in a single stack or Virtual Chassis configuration, enabling nondisruptive 10GbE server upgrades and simplified management of a mixed access environment.

The EX4300 switches can be interconnected over multiple 40GbE quad small formfactor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver ports to form a 320 gigabit per second (Gbps) backplane. A flexible uplink module that supports both 1GbE and 10GbE options is also available, enabling high-speed connectivity to aggregation- or corelayer switches which connect multiple floors or buildings.

All EX4300 switches include high availability (HA) features such as redundant, hotswappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable fans to ensure maximum uptime. In addition, Power over Ethernet (PoE)-enabled EX4300 switch models offer standards-based 802.3at PoE+ for delivering up to 30 watts on all ports to support high-density IP telephony and 802.11n wireless access point deployments.

Additionally, a multigigabit model, the EX4300-48MP, supports IEEE 802.3bzcompliant 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds on access ports. This enables 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, which require higher bandwidth, to connect to the switch. The EX4300 multigigabit switch also supports up to 95 watts of power on any of the access ports, enabling PoE++ devices requiring more than 30 watts to connect to and draw power from the switch. Finally, the EX4300 multigigabit switch enables higher levels of Media Access Control Security (MACsec) AES256 encryption on all access and uplink ports, protecting customer traffic from unauthorized access.

Chassis-Like Features in an Expandable Form Factor

The fixed-configuration EX4300 switches include a number of high availability features typically associated with chassis-based solutions, including the following:

• Hot-swappable fans
• Modular Juniper Networks Junos® operating system (consistent with chassis systems)
• Dual Routing Engines (REs) with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) in a Virtual Chassis configuration
• Single management interface
• Easy, centralized software upgrades
• Scalability from 24 to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 24 to 240 100/1000/2500/5000/10000BASE-T ports, with up to 40 10GbE uplinks and 40 40GbE uplinks (up to 40 10GbE uplinks, 20 40GbE uplinks, or 10 100GbE uplinks on multigigabit models, in addition to four dedicated 40 Gbps Virtual Chassis ports per switch)