Software release
- JUNOS 5.6 and later
Description
- Power requirement: 0.17 A/48 V=8 W
- Three versions:
- 4 multilink bundles, 256 LFI links
- 32 multilink bundles, 256 LFI links
- 128 multilink bundles, 256 LFI links
- Multilink bonding, link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI), and tunneling
Note: On the M5, M10, M20, M40, and M160 routers, this PIC requires an enhanced FPC. See the hardware guide for your router for more information.
Hardware features
- Rate limiting/policing per multilink bundle
- Byte-wise load balancing across multilink bundles
- Bonding T1 links enable service ranging from 1.5 Mbps through 12 Mbps
- Bonding E1 links enable service ranging from 2 Mbps through 16 Mbps
- Loopback function that encapsulates and de-encapsulates packets
Software features
- Protocol support:
- Multilink PPP (MLPPP)
- Multilink Frame Relay (MLFR)—FRF.15 and FRF.16
- Link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI)—FRF.12
- LFI over MLPPP
- IP-IP unicast tunneling
- GRE unicast tunneling
- PIM sparse mode unicast tunneling
Note: Extended support for graceful Routing Engine switchover has been added for this PIC. To configure graceful Routing Engine switchover, you must be running JUNOS release 7.0 or later.
Cables and connectors
- None
LEDs One bicolor:
- Off—PIC offline
- Green—PIC is online and at least one configured bundle is operating
- Amber—PIC is online, but no configured bundles are operating
