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This guide provides an overview and description of the Physical Interface Cards (PICs) supported by the Juniper Networks M160 Internet router. The PICs are described alphabetically.

PICs provide the physical connection to various network media types. The PICs are mounted on Flexible PIC Concentrators (FPCs) or Enhanced Flexible PIC Concentrators (Enhanced FPCs), which are inserted into a slot in a router. A PIC occupies a single slot on an FPC. You can install PICs of different media types on the same FPC as long as the FPC and the router support those PICs.

PICs receive incoming packets from the network and transmit outgoing packets to the network. During this process, each PIC performs framing and high-speed signaling for its media type. Before transmitting outgoing data packets, the PICs encapsulate the packets received from the FPCs. Each PIC is equipped with a media-specific ASIC that performs control functions tailored to the PIC's media type.

If you are upgrading an M160 Internet router to JUNOS 6.3 or later and have different PIC types on a single FPC, please consult the most recent technical bulletins about PIC combinations on the Juniper Networks Support site at: http://www.juniper.net/support/.

Table 1 lists the features available in all current Services PICs for JUNOS release 7.3.

Table 1: Services PIC Feature Matrix

Model Number

FEB-M7i- SVCS-S

P-AS2, PB-AS, PE-AS

P-AS2, PB-AS2, PE-AS2

P-ES-800, PB-ES-800, PE-ES-800

P-LS-4, PB-LS-4, PE-LS-4, P-LS-32, PB-LS-32, PE-LS-32, P-LS-128, PB-LS-128, PE-LS-128

P-PM, PB-PM, PB-PM2, PE-PM

P-TUNNEL, PB-TUNNEL, PB-TUNNEL-1, PC-TUNNEL, PE-TUNNEL
FPC Type

Integrated

Type 1

Type 1

Type 1

Type 1

Type 1

Type 1, Type 2, Type 3
Platform Support

M7i

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M160

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M160, M320, T320, T640

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M160, M320, T320

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M320

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M160

M5, M7i, M10, M10i, M20, M40, M40e, M160, M320, T320, T640

Security Services

Stateful Firewall

X

X

X

        

NAT

X

X

X

        

Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

X

X

X

        

IPSec

X

X

X

X

      
Monitoring Services

Active Monitoring

X

X

X

        

Passive Monitoring

          

X

  
LNS Services

L2TP LNS

X

            
Voice Services

CRTP

X

            
Link Services

Link Services (FRF.12, FRF.15, FRF.16, LFI, MLPPP)

X

X

X

  

X

    
Tunnel Services

GRES

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

GRES Fragmentation

X

X

X

        

Logical Tunnels (LT)

X

      

X

  

X

IP-IP

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

Multicast Tunnels (MT)

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

PIM De-encapsulation (PD)

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

PIM Encapsulation (PE)

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

Virtual Tunnels (VT)

X

X

X

  

X

  

X

With JUNOS Release 6.3 and later, the M160 router supports Enhanced Flexible PIC Concentrator (FPC) types 2 and 3, which offer additional queue priority levels and next-hop memory, and support all existing type 2 and 3 T-series Physical Interface Cards (PICs). Additionally, the router now supports FPC type 1 and its associated T-series PICs.

For a complete list of End-of-Life FPCs and End-of-Life Enhanced FPCs for M-series and T-series routing platforms, see the M-series and T-series Routing Platform End-of-Life FPC Guide located at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/.

A single FPC2 has a maximum throughput of 10 Gbps and a single FPC1 has a maximum throughput of 3.2 Gbps. Inserting a combination of PICs with an aggregate higher than that is supported, but constitutes oversubscription.

You can typically install any combination of PICs on a single Enhanced Flexible PIC Concentrator (FPC). Starting with JUNOS Release 6.2, on M5, M10, M20, M40, M40e, and M160 routers, there are some combinations of PICs that cannot be installed together on the same Enhanced FPC. If you are adding a new type of PIC to an existing configuration, see the most recent at http://www.juniper.net/alerts.

Blank PICs resemble other PICs, but do not provide any physical connection or activity. When a slot is not occupied by a PIC, you must insert a blank PIC to fill the empty slot and ensure proper cooling of the system.

For complete information about installing PICs, including installation of small form-factor pluggable transceivers (SFPs), see the PIC, SFP, and XENPAK Installation Instructions located at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/.

Table 2 lists the PICs supported by the M160 Internet router.

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