ACX7024 and ACX7024X Cloud Metro Routers

The Juniper Networks® ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers is designed to help operators achieve their capital, operational, and user experience goals. Part of the Juniper Networks ACX7000 family of routers, the ACX7024 and ACX7024X deliver exceptional TCO, investment protection, and support Juniper® Cloud Metro for 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud applications. These routers are ideal for service provider, enterprise, and residential use cases requiring a highly flexible, compact, multiservice, and environmentally industrial-rated platform.  

ACX7024 and ACX7024X, from the ACX7000 family, are compact, fixed, 1 U (24 cm deep), high-performance multiservice routers. Designed for Cloud Metro deployments in industrial and commercial temperature environments, both routers incorporate 6 integrated fans (5+1 redundancy) for front-to-back airflow. They come with 2x field replaceable AC or DC power supplies (1+1 redundancy). Cost-effective and efficient thermal design enables usage of high-power 100GbE ZR transceivers on all supporting ports. They incorporate 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. They support next-generation protocols, including segment routing, SRv6, MPLS, and Ethernet VPN (EVPN)–Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), and any overlay, underlay, or service. They deliver service-assured network slicing, network intelligence, and Juniper Paragon Automation for network efficiency and operational simplicity.

The ACX7024 and ACX7024X routers share identical features and capabilities while providing operators with key differentiators to fit the exacting needs of each deployment. The ACX7024 is designed to work in less-than-desirable, industrial-temperature applications. The ACX7024X, with its 8C processor and 64MB of RAM, provides high-scale and low-latency capabilities in commercial-temperature applications.

ACX7024: The ACX7024 is an industrial-rated (I-Temp) multiservice router. Next-generation silicon delivers 360 Gbps of throughput, a comprehensive feature set, and the scale needed to support today’s and tomorrow’s performance and bandwidth requirements. The ACX7024 router’s 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-28) 100GbE uplinks are available to support scale.

ACX7024X: The ACX7024X is a commercial-rated (C-Temp), high-scale multiservice router. Key highlights are next-generation silicon that delivers 360 Gbps of throughput, a comprehensive feature set, a more powerful processor, 4 times the memory for high-scale environments, a higher FIB scale, and faster look-ups. All these features help operators and enterprises meet the needs of high-performance bandwidth requirements today and tomorrow. The ACX7024X router 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-28) 100GbE uplinks are available to support scale.

The cloud metro ready ACX7024 and ACX7024X are engineered for sustainability. They address the challenges of evolving service requirements and relentless traffic growth imposed by 4G/5G, IoT, and cloud applications, turning them into opportunities for operators to thrive.

Table 1: ACX7024 and ACX7024X Features and Benefits

This section lists basic specifications for the ACX7024 line of routers. For further detail, please refer to the hardware installation manuals at www.juniper.net/techpubs.

Table 4: Specifications