Juniper Offers New Features for E-series Edge Routing Platform

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Nov 2004

Juniper Networks has announced new hardware and software features for its E-series edge routing platform that enable providers to deploy more sophisticated services with increased levels of performance, reliability and scale.

The E-series JUNOSe system software and applications now support stateful Switch Route Processor switchover capabilities. High availability for subscriber management applications, including all Point-to-Point Protocol and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol access options, means that all subscriber sessions and services remain active during failure.

The new Gigabit Ethernet (GE) "combo card" integrates tunnel server functionality with a higher density, 2-port GE line card, enabling customers to increase density and scale by supporting both physical GE termination and tunnel server features in a single line card slot.

The line card provides dedicated resources to support the establishment of tunnels and LNS termination for L2TP in addition to GRE tunnels, IPSec tunnels and IP multicast. It also doubles Gigabit Ethernet port density. The combo card uses a range of small form-factor pluggable transceivers to support different optical modes and cabling distances. Each module has two active and redundant ports for increased reliability.

The E-series is now fully interoperable with the Siemens dual stack IPv4/IPv6 PPPoE tango Access broadband client software for Windows. This interoperability helps service providers address the coming global shortage of existing Internet Protocol version 4 addresses, an issue that the next-generation of Internet Protocol, known as IP version 6 (IPv6), was designed to overcome. Service providers now have the flexibility to begin deploying advanced broadband services such as video-ondemand, IP television, video conferencing, voice and video telephony based on IPv6.

The new 8-port FX Fast Ethernet Input Output Adapter (IOA) supports fiber-based lOOMbps Ethernet services for the ERX platform. The IOA pairs with the existing IxGE line card and is supported in the ERX-310, ERX-705, ERX-710, ERX1400 and ERX-1440 platforms. Similar to the combo card, the eight-port FX IOA uses a range of small form-factor pluggable transceivers to support different optical modes and cabling distances.