ACX7509 Cloud Metro Router

Optimized for multiservice access, aggregation, and cloud/data center use cases, the ACX7509 is part of Juniper's ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers, purpose-built for the IP service fabric underlay of a Juniper Cloud Metro. The ACX7000 portfolio provides comprehensive coverage of all metro enterprise, wholesale, and data center use cases and is designed to deliver sustainable business growth for the evolving requirements of the “new edge,” where connectivity, cloud, and customer experiences converge—the Cloud Metro.

The fully redundant ACX7509 Cloud Metro Router delivers 4.8 Tbps throughput in a modular, energy-efficient, high-availability (HA), 5 U (60 cm depth) platform. It brings 1GbE-to-400GbE port flexibility and density to operator networks, supporting unrestricted use of high-power ZR/ZR+ transceivers and enabling IP-over-DWDM (IPoDWDM) efficiencies. Its ample capacity can accommodate service growth, cloud expansion, and hyperscale applications. 

All ACX7000 platforms support 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, the entire ACX7000 family offers 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.

The ACX7509 is designed for metro and data center use cases requiring highly flexible, compact, energy-efficient, high-end multiservice solutions. As part of a multivendor architecture, the ACX7509 brings leading-edge performance, scale, and capability to any deployment. When it’s part of a comprehensive ACX7000 Cloud Metro architecture, new dimensions of end-to-end operational capability, performance and simplicity are realized.

An ideal choice for service provider, large enterprise, and cloud/data center use cases, the ACX7509 supports Juniper Cloud Metro solutions for 4G/5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud applications requiring extremely power-efficient, high-density, high-availability (HA), and sustainable solutions. Three field-replaceable FPCs provide flexible chassis configuration: 20 ports of multispeed 1/10/25/50GbE, 16 ports of 40/100GbE, and 4 ports of 200/400GbE. Deep buffers provide end-to-end service delivery assurance and precision timing capabilities such as Synchronous Ethernet, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), and advanced Class C timing for latency-optimized 4G/5G service experiences, as well as GNSS/GPS (grandmaster clock support via external GNSS receiver) network synchronization.

Built on the latest silicon and engineered to be sustainable, the ACX7509 is designed to optimize space, power, and security and address increasingly complex service requirements and relentless traffic growth imposed by 5G, IoT, and cloud-based applications, turning challenges into opportunities to thrive. The ACX7509 delivers the following benefits:

• Fully redundant HA platform with enhanced security including MACsec on all ports
• Highly sustainable, the ACX7509 fabric-less architecture delivers longevity; fewer components and cooling advances set new benchmarks for low power consumption, TCO savings, and simplified path to next-generation upgrades 
• 100/400GbE ports supporting ZR/ZR+, enabling IPoDWDM to reduce the cost/complexity of IP-optical convergence
• Eight-slot (9-slot ready) modular chassis supports flexible 1GbE-to-400GbE configurations 
• Comprehensive protocol support enables evolution across protocol generations at the operator’s pace—neither trapped in legacy nor forced into next-gen technology  
• Embedded Paragon Active Assurance: Automate turn-up testing processes and gain continuous end-to-end service quality insights to proactively enhance customer experience
• Embedded zero trust security: All ACX7000 platforms feature TPM 2.0 chip technology, creating a unique, cryptographically bound device identity that can’t be spoofed by hackers

The ACX7509 Cloud Metro Router is designed with the needs of service providers, large enterprise, wholesale providers, and cloud/data center operators in mind. This includes:

• Service providers/content service providers seeking to expand their ability to support existing services, scale with demand, offer new services, or all of the above to deliver exceptional user experience. Use cases include mobile operators supporting 4G and/or expanding to 5G services, cable/MSO operators migrating to Remote-PHY architectures, and Internet providers expanding to 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 and branch applications, WAN backbone and edge, peering, colocation, and data center edge and border leaf. 
• 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. 
• Data center/cloud operators seeking data center interconnect (DCI) solutions and solutions that support cloud-inspired scale-out and spine-leaf architectures capable of supporting multiple overlay encapsulation methods and data plane security technologies.

ACX7509 Routers support Juniper’s Flex software licensing program. This includes perpetual and subscription licenses for one, three, and five years.  

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