About This Guide

Use this guide to explore the ACX7000 family of routers and understand their core capabilities and diverse use cases. This guide will help you identify the most suitable router from the ACX7000 family for your network requirements and deployment goals. The ACX7000 family of routers includes ACX7020, ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100, ACX7332, ACX7348, and ACX7509 routers.

Introduction

This guide explains how to configure and deploy the ACX7000 family of routers in a network. It provides basic configuration essentials and instructions to help you quickly deploy your device.

Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to provide clear instructions for setting up and deploying your device, from performing initial system configuration, understanding platform-specific behaviors, and deploying use cases.

Audience

This document is intended for network operators, network administrators, and network solution architects responsible for installing and maintaining the ACX7000 family of routers.

You are expected to have a basic knowledge of networking concepts, Junos® OS Evolved CLI usage, and safety practices to handle the equipment, rack or cabinet, and wiring closet.

Scope

This guide applies specifically to the Juniper Networks® ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers, including all supported hardware models and the hardware components. It covers basic system configurations, interface configurations, platform-specific features, and use cases.

This guide does not focus exhaustively on documenting every possible feature or configuration.

How This Guide Complements Existing Documentation

This guide complements, but does not replace the hardware guides, software guides, and release notes provided for the ACX7000 family of routers.

Refer to the hardware guide for detailed information on site planning, preparation, and specification; installation and configuration; maintaining components; and for safety information.

Refer to the Junos OS Evolved documentation for software features, protocol-specific information and configuration, and the release notes for the latest updates, limitations, and caveats.

How to Use This Guide

Table 1: Top Tasks
If you want to...	See
Learn About ACX7000 Family of Routers The ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers is a portfolio of high-performance routers designed to meet the evolving needs of service providers, data centers, and enterprises.	Overview
Perform Initial Configuration Before getting started with any task on the ACX7000 family of routers, you need to log in to the router and perform initial configuration through the Junos OS Evolved CLI. In this topic, you will learn how to log in to your device and do basic configuration.	Device Login and Initial Configuration
Configure System Settings Learn how to configure your system's hostname, time, and identity settings, create a user account and its authentication methods, and configure system logging, SNMP, and telemetry features.	Time Zone and Identity Settings
	User Accounts and Authentication
	Logging, SNMP, and Telemetry
Know About Interface Types Learn about the physical and built-in interface types, as well as interface channelization options on your ACX7000 router. You will also learn basic interface configuration details.	Interface Types and Configurations
Understand Platform-Specific Behavior Learn about some of the platform-specific behaviors and features on the ACX7000 family of routers.	Class of Service
	EVPN
	Firewall Filters and Profiles
	Layer 2 Services
	Port Mirroring
Learn About the Use Cases Learn about some of the common use cases for the ACX7000 family of routers.	End-to-end Layer 2 Connectivity using VPLS-based Layer 2 VPN
Know About the Licensing and Upgrade Information Learn about licensing options available for the ACX7000 family of routers. You will learn how to activate and renew your licenses and upgrade to the latest Junos OS Evolved release.	Licensing and Upgrade
Refer to Documentation Resources and Tools This guide complements, but does not replace the hardware guides, software guides, and release notes provided for the ACX7000 family of routers. Learn about the hardware specifications and supported software features, and stay up-to-date on new and changed features on the ACX7000 family of routers. Use the Pathfinder Apps to learn about features, hardware specifications, transceivers, port configurations, and to calculate power consumption on an ACX7000 router.	Documentation and Resources
	Pathfinder Apps

Documentation Conventions

For information about the notice icons and text and syntax conventions used in the documentation, see Documentation Conventions.

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