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The Metro Ethernet Business Services Juniper Validated Design addresses traditional L2 Business Access and Dedicated Internet Access services while incorporating modern service delivery protocols, including EVPN-VPWS, EVPN-FXC, EVPN-ETREE, and EVPN-ELAN. The topology, built using the Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio, deploys an infrastructure designed to support metro access multi-ring topologies and a 2-stage metro fabric spine-and-leaf design. The reference architecture is based on modern Carrier Ethernet Metro Area Networks and takes into consideration the transformation required to facilitate diverse new services, applications, and use cases.
The new architecture, known as Cloud Metro, carries several important characteristics in the amalgamation of service and content providers. These shifting industry trends demand massive bandwidth and service scale increase while supporting more complex metro workloads. A major goal of Cloud Metro is the adaptation of cloud principles into metro networks, including the array of EVPN technologies, SR-MPLS/SRv6, and machinery to support inter-domain traffic engineering or seamless architectures across disparate networks. This is a differentiating factor that characterizes requirements for supporting x-to-anything connectivity models or building infrastructures that become access agnostic, while blending with virtualized network functions and devices.
The solution architectures and services proposed in the Metro Ethernet Business Services JVD are part of the network modernization journey and are challenges many operators face. Our modern converged network infrastructures and technologies stand ready to meet the demands of the new metro. JVD proposes solution blueprints to make every connection count.
Figure 12: Juniper Evolved Metro
The Juniper Networks MEF 3.0 certified MX304 leverages the next-generation Trio 6 chipset that is designed with the highest performance, efficiency, and agility requirements to meet cloud-era scale and network demand. The compact 2RU modular 4.8T platform delivers the advanced feature set required for the most sophisticated multiservice edge roles.
The ACX7000 Family is purpose-built to support the Cloud Metro evolution with a consistent advanced feature set across the complete portfolio. The MEF 3.0 certified ACX7509 compact modular metro router delivers an innovative centralized chassis architecture, designed to reduce failures, optimize power efficiency, and support the diverse speeds and feeds required for the interconnectivity into the featured Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) complexes.
The MEF 3.0 certified ACX7100-48L and ACX7100-32C are 4.8T 1RU platforms supporting dense capacity and provide up to 400GbE metro access and aggregation. The JVD selected ACX7100-48L for access fabric and multi-ring attachments and ACX7100-32 for the roles of fabric spine and metro edge gateway with border leaf service termination functionality.
The MEF 3.0 certified ACX7024 temperature-rated 360G platform is ideally situated for metro access roles and supports the advanced feature set of the ACX7000 family portfolio.