Juniper Networks ACX7024 Cloud Metro Router Datasheet
This document provides detailed specifications and features for the Juniper Networks ACX7024 Cloud Metro Router, designed for 5G, IoT, and cloud applications.
Product Overview
Operators are finding opportunities and facing challenges to support new and complex services and applications with 5G, IoT, and cloud—all while keeping experience-first networking in mind. The ACX7000 Family platforms can help operators thrive. The ACX7024 is a hardened, fixed, 360 Gbps, 1 U (24 cm deep) multiservice router, powered by Junos OS Evolved and Paragon Automation. It provides 1GbE to 100GbE port flexibility and delivers exceptional TCO, investment protection, and multiservice support for service provider, enterprise, and wholesale use cases. Its compact footprint and precision timing support make the ACX7024 ideal for 4G/5G mobile network deployments.
Product Description
The Juniper Networks® ACX7024 Cloud Metro Router is designed to help operators achieve their capital, operational, and user experience goals. Part of the Juniper Networks ACX7000 Family of routers, the ACX7024 delivers exceptional TCO, investment protection, and supports Juniper® Cloud Metro for 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud applications. This makes it ideal for service provider, enterprise, and residential use cases requiring a highly flexible, compact, multiservice, and environmentally hardened platform.
ACX7000 Family Overview
ACX7000 Family routers are purpose-built for the IP service fabric underlay of a Juniper Cloud Metro. They leverage the industry's fastest chipset, provide a unique balance of system design, and set new benchmarks for sustainable, high-performance platforms. Managed by Junos® OS Evolved and Juniper Paragon™ Automation Portfolio, the ACX7000 routers are embedded with Paragon Active Assurance and with Zero Trust security built in, enabling operators to deliver highly differentiated customer experiences. Available in hardened, fixed, fixed plus modular, and fully modular designs, these energy and footprint efficient multiservice routers support high-precision timing technologies and are engineered for service provider, enterprise, residential (including PON with the Juniper Unified PON Solution), IoT, and 4G/5G mobile applications.
ACX7024 Product Offering
The ACX7024 is a hardened, compact, fixed, 1 U (24 cm deep), high-performance multiservice router. Next-generation silicon delivers 360 Gbps of throughput, a comprehensive feature set, and the scale needed to support the performance and bandwidth requirements of today and tomorrow. ACX7024 fixed ports include 24 multi-rate (SFP28) ports, each configurable as 1GbE, 10GbE, and 25GbE, enabling operators to perform today's most common upgrades on a port-by-port basis. An additional 4 fixed (QSFP-DD) 100GbE uplinks are available to support scale.
The ACX7024 incorporates 6 integrated fans (5+1 redundancy) for front-to-back and side-to-side (with baffle) airflow. It comes with 2x field replaceable AC or DC power supplies (1+1 redundancy). Cost-effective and efficient thermal design enables unrestricted high-power 100GbE ZR transceiver use across all supporting ports. It incorporates precision timing capabilities, including advanced Class C timing for low-latency 5G services and GPS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) transceiver for best-in-class network experience. It supports next-generation protocols, including segment routing, SRv6, MPLS, and Ethernet VPN (EVPN)—Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), and any overlay, underlay, or service. It delivers service-assured network slicing, network intelligence, and Juniper Paragon Automation for network efficiency and operational simplicity.
Cloud Metro-Ready Feature
Benefits: ACX7024 offers deep buffering for end-to-end service delivery assurance, precision timing capabilities such as Synchronous Ethernet, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), and advanced Class C timing for latency-optimized 5G service experiences, as well as GNSS/GPS (Grand master clock support via external GNSS receiver) network synchronization. An ideal choice for cloud metro, enterprise, and residential use cases, ACX7024 also supports the Juniper Unified PON Solution, IoT, and 4G/5G mobile applications.
| Model | 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE SFP-28 | 100GbE QSFP-DD |
|---|---|---|
| ACX7024 | 24 | 4 |
| Native Port Speeds | ACX7024 |
|---|---|
| 100GbE | 4 |
| 40GbE | 4 |
| 25GbE | 24 |
| 10GbE | 24 |
| 1GbE | 24 |
Features and Benefits
The cloud metro-ready ACX7024 is engineered for sustainability. It addresses the challenges of evolving service requirements and relentless traffic growth imposed by 5G, IoT, and cloud applications, turning them into opportunities for operators to thrive.
| Feature | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Junos OS Evolved and Embedded Active Assurance | Managed by Junos OS Evolved, Juniper Paragon Active Assurance Test Agents are embedded into all ACX7000 platforms enabling automated monitoring, diagnosis, remediation, and optimization of service delivery, service performance, and differentiated user experience. |
| Rugged and Efficient Design | Environmentally hardened (-40 °C to +65 °C) and compact footprint (1 U, 24 cm deep, 19 in. rack) supports a wide variety of deployments. Efficient design (<97 W typical*, 150 W max) with front-to-back and side-to-side (with baffle) airflow. *NOTE: Typical power consumption measured at 25° C ambient with 50% load on all ports |
| Build-As-You-Grow Operational Simplicity | Clip-on (tool-less) rack mounting, 24 multi-rate ports support native port-by-port 1GbE, 10GbE, and 25GbE configuration and migration. As service demand grows, ACX7024 routers support 100GbE uplinks and unrestricted high-power ZR transceiver use across all supporting ports. |
| Next-Gen Capabilities | Next-gen capabilities include leading protocols such as segment routing, SRv6, MPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, advanced programmability, leading network slicing, telemetry, and support for any overlay, underlay, or service. |
| Zero-Trust Security | Enhanced security capabilities include secure boot, integrated tamper-proof design, and trust anchor with DevID, enabling device attestation and enhanced security through a unique cryptographic digital identity. |
| Feature | ACX7024 |
|---|---|
| System | |
| ASIC throughput | 360 Gbps |
| Chassis type | Fixed |
| Cooling | 6 fans, front-to-back airflow, baffle for side-side |
| Layer 2 Bridging | |
| IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) | Yes |
| Integrated routing and bridging (IRB) | Yes |
| IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation | Yes |
| Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad | Yes |
| Static Media Access Control (MAC) | Yes |
| Jumbo frames | Yes |
| Layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) | Yes |
| Layer 2 ingress access control list (ACL) | Yes |
| MPLS | |
| LDP | Yes |
| LDP: Tunneling (LDP over RSVP) | Yes |
| RSVP | Yes |
| IP | |
| IPv4/IPv6 | Yes |
| Unicast reserve-path forwarding (uRPF) | Yes |
| 128-way equal-cost multipath (ECMP) | Yes |
| RIP/RIPng | Yes |
| OSPF v2/v3 | Yes |
| IS-IS | Yes |
| BGP | Yes |
| Layer 3 ingress and egress ACL | Yes |
| Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) | Yes |
| Basic segment routing | Yes |
| Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) | Yes |
| MPLS Service (Layer 2 and Layer 3) | |
| L2VPN | Yes |
| L3VPN | Yes |
| Virtual private LAN service (VPLS) | Yes |
| Timing and Synchronization | |
| PTP transparent clock | Yes |
| PTP primary/client capability | Yes |
| IEEE 1588v2 boundary clock | Yes |
| Synchronous Ethernet Enhanced (G.8262.1) | Yes |
| Class C | Yes |
| Operation, Administration, and Maintenance | |
| Connectivity fault management (CFM) | Yes |
| Link fault management (LFM) | Yes |
| Security | |
| MACsec | No |
| Secure boot | Yes |
| Secure Shell protocol | Yes |
| Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) | Yes |
| Quality of Service | |
| Behavior aggregate (BA) classification | Yes |
| Rewrite | Yes |
| Multifield classification | Yes |
| 8 queues for traffic | Yes |
| Ingress policer | Yes |
| Automation | |
| Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) | Yes |
| Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) | Yes |
| Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) | Yes |
| OpenConfig | Yes |
| Python scripts | Yes |
Specifications
This section lists basic specifications for the ACX7024 router. For further detail, please refer to the hardware installation manuals at www.juniper.net/techpubs.
| Specification | ACX7024 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 19 x 1.75 x 9.6 in. (4.4 x 48.2 x 24.4 cm) |
| Weight (lb/kg) fully configured | 12.5 lb (5.66 kg) |
| Power (DC) | -48 VDC through -60 VDC |
| Power (AC) | 90 VAC to 264 VAC |
| Typical power draw (without optics)* | 97 W @ 25° C |
| Maximum power draw (without optics)* | 150 W |
| Operating temperature | -40°C to +65° C GR3108-class-2 |
| Humidity | 5% to 90% RH (noncondensing) operating |
| Interfaces | 24x 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE QSFP28 4x100GbE QSFP-DD |
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Ordering Information
Hardware
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| ACX7024-DC-1PSU | ACX7024, 1 U high, 240 mm deep; 24xSFP28 and 4xQSFP28; operating range -40 °C to 65 °C; DC non-redundant power supply unit |
| ACX7024-DC-2PSU | ACX7024, 1 U high, 240 mm deep; 24xSFP28 and 4xQSFP28; operating range -40 °C to 65 °C; DC redundant power supply unit |
| ACX7024-AC-1PSU | ACX7024, 1 U high, 240 mm deep; 24xSFP28 and 4xQSFP28; operating range -40 °C to 65 °C; AC non-redundant power supply unit |
| ACX7024-AC-2PSU | ACX7024, 1 U high, 240 mm deep; 24xSFP28 and 4xQSFP28; operating range -40 °C to 65 °C; AC redundant power supply unit |
Metro Software
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| S-EACX-100G-A-1 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, class of service (CoS), Ethernet Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (EOAM), telemetry, RFC2544 with up to 256,000 forwarding information base (FIB), up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 1 year |
| S-EACX-100G-A-3 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with up to 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 3 years |
| S-EACX-100G-A-5 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with up to 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 5 years |
| S-EACX-100G-A1-P | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced 1, without customer support, must purchase CS SKU separately, Perpetual |
| S-EACX-100G-P-1 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, includes ADV SW Subscription license with full platform scale, Premium, with SVC customer support, 1 year |
| S-EACX-100G-P-3 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, includes ADV SW Subscription license with full platform scale, Premium, with SVC customer support, 3 years |
| S-EACX-100G-P-5 | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, includes ADV SW Subscription license with full platform scale, Premium, with SVC customer support, 5 years |
| S-EACX-100G-P1-P | SW, EACX, per 100GbE capacity, includes ADV SW Subscription license with full platform scale, Premium 1, without customer support, must purchase CS SKU separately, Perpetual |
| S-EACX-400G-A-1 | SW, EACX, per 400GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with up to 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 1 year |
| S-EACX-400G-A-3 | SW, EACX, per 400GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with up to 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 3 years |
| S-EACX-400G-A-5 | SW, EACX, per 400GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with up to 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced, with SVC customer support, 5 years |
| S-EACX-400G-A1-P | SW, EACX, per 400GbE capacity, supports IP/MPLS, timing, CoS, EOAM, telemetry, RFC2544) with 256,000 FIB, up to 1000 L2/L3 VPN, Advanced 1, without customer support, must purchase CS SKU separately, Perpetual |
Optics and Transceivers
ACX7024 supports varying port speeds with different transceiver options of direct attach copper (DAC), active optical cable (AOC), and breakout cable (BO). The most recent information on supported optics can be found at https://apps.juniper.net.
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