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ME-X6 Overview

ME-X6 Device Overview

The Juniper Mist™ Edge solution uses the Juniper Mist™ cloud and its distributed software architecture for scalable and resilient operations, management, troubleshooting, and analytics. The solution extends select microservices to the customer premises and enables the Juniper Mist cloud and Marvis AI engine to analyze localized data.

The Juniper Mist Edge ME-X6 is a part of the Mist Edge solution. The ME-X6 provides a centralized data path for user traffic, a task that legacy wireless controllers traditionally performed. The device enables on-premises tunnel termination of traffic to and from access points. It extends VLANs to distributed branches and telecommuters, replacing remote VPN technology, and it provides dynamic traffic segmentation for IoT devices. Split tunneling enables separation of guest access and corporate traffic.

The ME-X6 enables you to split management between the cloud and your on-premises network. You can deploy the ME-X6 as a standalone appliance.

Figure 1: Mist Edge ME-X6 Juniper Networks rack-mounted device with Mist AI, featuring USB ports, power button, and "g102670" identifier.

Benefits

  • Scaling and performance—The ME-X6 has a maximum throughput of 100 gigabit per second (Gbps). It can support up to 5000 access points (APs) and 100,000 clients.

  • Transition to microservices—You can seamlessly transition from the existing centralized data plane with legacy controller architectures to the modern Juniper Mist microservices cloud architecture. This transition does not affect the existing network architecture.

  • Tunneled WLANs and flexible traffic redirection—The Juniper Mist microservices architecture provides the flexibility to form multiple tunnels to different Juniper Mist Edge appliances to meet the wireless configuration requirements of your network. A Juniper Mist Edge deployment supports both locally bridged and tunneled WLANs.

  • High availability and clustering—Juniper Mist Edge supports an elastically scalable cluster that has an unlimited number of nodes. The support also extends to backup clusters. The solution supports multiple layers of redundancy to ensure WLAN survivability in the event of a catastrophic network failure.