ACX7300 Cloud Metro Routers

Optimized for multiservice access and aggregation use cases, the ACX7300 line is part of Juniper's ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers. They have been purpose-built for the IP service fabric underlay of a Juniper Cloud Metro network.

The ACX7000 family and ACX7300 line comprehensively address all metro use cases. They have specifically been designed to deliver sustainable business growth and address the evolving service delivery requirements of the “new edge,” where connectivity, cloud, and customer experiences converge.

ACX7300 platforms are rugged, environmentally rated routers designed for multiservice applications. They combine the economics and resiliency of a fixed, redundant platform with three bays of modularity for customizable, build-as-you-grow scalability, high availability, and exceptional performance. They provide 1GbE-to-400GbE port flexibility, unrestricted high-power ZR/ZR+ transceiver support, massive forwarding capacity, and MACsec encryption at all port speeds in a compact, power-efficient footprint. 

The ACX7348 offers 48 fixed multirate SFP/SFP+/SFP28 ports and is industrially rated (I-Temp); the ACX7332 offers 32 fixed multirate SFP/SFP+/SFP28 ports and is extended-temperature-rated (E-Temp). The ACX7332 also provides embedded ternary content addressable memory (eTCAM)-enhanced forwarding information base (FIB) scale and latency.

The entire ACX7000 family supports all overlay and underlay protocols, enabling operators to evolve across protocol generations at their own pace. Powered by Junos® OS Evolved and Juniper Paragon™ Automation, all ACX7000 routers offer advanced features such as embedded active service assurance and zero-trust security, segment routing (SR), SRv6, MPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, advanced programmability, network slicing, and telemetry.

ACX7300 routers excel in metro access and aggregation network segments requiring a robust, highly flexible, compact, multiservice, and temperature-hardened solution.

ACX7300 routers address 5G, IoT, and cloud requirements with an integrated platform that connects residential, enterprise, wholesale, and 4G/5G customers directly to an operator’s converged and automated Juniper Cloud Metro architecture.

Built on the latest silicon and engineered for sustainability, the ACX7300 line optimizes space, power, and security. It also addresses increasingly complex service requirements and the relentless traffic growth imposed by 5G, IoT, and cloud-based applications. In these ways, the routers help turn operator challenges into opportunities to thrive. Specifically, the ACX7300 line delivers the following:

• Environmental rating and multiservice support in a platform that combines the value of a fixed redundant platform with three bays of customizable modularity
• High availability: dual redundant route engines provide network-level reliability for uninterrupted service delivery
• 1GbE-to-400GbE port flexibility, MACsec support at all port rates, and massive forwarding capacity in a compact, power-efficient footprint enable today’s most common service migrations without a forklift upgrade
• 100/400GbE unrestricted high-power ZR/ZR+ technology support extends the powerful value of IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) into access and aggregation network segments to reduce the cost and complexity of IP-optical convergence
• Comprehensive protocol support enables protocol evolution at the operator’s pace; operators aren’t stuck with legacy technologies or forced into next-generation upgrades
• Embedded Paragon Active Assurance agents automate testing processes and help you gain the continuous service quality insights you need across your network to proactively enhance the customer experience
• Embedded zero-trust security, including TPM 2.0 chip technology, which creates a unique, cryptographically bound device identity that can’t be spoofed

The ACX7300 line of Cloud Metro Routers is designed to meet the needs of service and content providers, enterprise operators, and wholesale providers such as:

• Network service providers/content service providers seeking to expand their ability to support existing services, scale with demand, and deploy new services while delivering exceptional user experiences. Use cases include mobile operators supporting 4G and/or expanding to 5G services, cable/multiservice operators (MSOs) migrating to remote-PHY (R-PHY) architectures, and Internet providers introducing or expanding fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) services.  
• Enterprises seeking a smooth and nondisruptive transition to a flexible, scalable, and resilient modern network architecture. Use cases include campus, branch, WAN edge, and collocation environments. 
• Wholesale providers building a converged multiservice transport architecture that is flexible, scalable, and sustainable while providing build-as-you-grow operational simplicity to support the requirements of a dynamic resource-leasing market.

ACX7300 routers support Juniper’s Flex software licensing program. The program offers perpetual and subscription licenses for one, three, and five years.

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