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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 ME-X6 delivers a centralized data path for user traffic—similar to what legacy wireless controllers once handled—but without their limitations. Built on modern microservices and cloud-native architecture, it enables on-premises tunnel termination for traffic to and from access points. The device extends VLANs to remote branches and telecommuters, effectively replacing traditional VPN solutions. It also supports dynamic traffic segmentation for IoT devices, and its split tunneling capability ensures clean separation between guest and corporate traffic.

The ME-X6 has two variants—1 and 2. The variants are compared below:

  • The front panel and status panel for both variants are the same. The bezel and rear panel components of both variants are different.

  • The mounting and setup process for both variants is the same.

  • Variant 2 has a lower operating and ambient temperature limit than variant 1.

  • Variant 2 requires more power and dissipates more heat than variant 1.

Figure 1: Mist Edge ME-X6 (Variant 1) 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 gigabits 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.