We were waiting for this for a long time, and Juniper gave us a big surprise. After so many years developing and improving the MX box finally was born the vMX. This will be a amazing for Service Providers where sometimes to deploy a new box is a nightmare regarding delivery/deploy time. vMX will be available on 1Q2015
No shame to be a Virtual Route Reflector!
Architecture
The vMX scales to a minimum of 160 Gbps of unidirectional forwarding capacity that can be distributed among multiple customer and service instances.
The vMX consists of the following:
- Virtual Control Plane (VCP), which is Junos OS hosted on a virtual machine (VM).
- The Virtual Forwarding Plane (VCP) runs the packet forwarding engine, which is the programmable Junos Trio microcode optimized and compiled for x86 environments.
Juniper also leveraged Intel toolkits, including DPDK and Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV), to further enhance forwarding performance.
Specs
| System Capacity | 160 Gbps |
| Switch Fabric Capacity per slot | N/A |
| DPCs and/or MPCs per chassis | N/A |
| Chassis per rack | N/A |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | N/A |
| Maximum Weight | N/A |
| Mounting | N/A |
References:
Juniper Networks Redefines Networking Industry With First Carrier-Grade Virtual Router
Juniper Networks doubles down on virtualization
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