ACX7509 Cloud Metro Router Datasheet

The ACX7509, from the ACX7500 line, is an 8-slot, 4.8 Tbps, modular, high-density multiservice router engineered to offer best-in-class performance, footprint, power efficiency, and scale. The innovative design approach includes centralized architecture for operational simplification and bandwidth flexibility, opening new possibilities for network transformation. The ASIC-free interface modules provide 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE, and 400GbE build-as-you grow port speed flexibility—ideal for high fan-out aggregation services and legacy network support use cases. 

Its breakthrough compact design with fabric-less architecture and fewer components, ICs, and ASICs sets new benchmarks for extremely low power consumption and TCO savings. Efficient cooling advances enable unrestricted use of high-power dense ZR/ZR+ transceivers on all supported ports in this fully redundant and high availability (HA) platform. Operators gain extended mean time between failures (MTBF) on an exceptionally small footprint consuming only 5 U and 60 cm deep of rack space, and a comparably simpler and less costly migration path to next-generation ASICs. ACX7905 platforms can realize a path to higher density, higher scale, higher port speeds, multiples of throughput, and future capabilities without a forklift or needing to change line cards, power supplies, and fans—as is necessary in competitive distributed chassis architectures. These improvements facilitate operational efficiency, investment protection, and radical capital and operational savings. ACX7509 capabilities also include Media Access Control Security (MACsec) on all ports, and the ability to seamlessly integrate with emerging distributed edge compute architectures.

ACX7509 supports three types of field replaceable FPCs for packet forwarding. These are installed vertically in the front slots of chassis and function as port extenders. 

• ACX7509-FPC20Y, a 500 Gbps throughput FPC that provides 20 ports of 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, and 50GbE 
• ACX7509-FPC-16C, a 1.6 Tbps throughput FPC that provides 16 ports of 40GbE and 100GbE
• ACX7509-FPC-4CD, a 1.6 Tbps throughput FPC that provides 4 ports of 200GbE and 400GbE

Each FPC supports a variety of Ethernet port rates with different optics types. The ASIC-free port extenders deliver standout power efficiency and high value with port variety to meet growing network demands.

Designed for service providers, wholesale, large enterprise, and data center use cases, the ACX7509 is also a foundational building block of an IP services fabric in a Juniper^® Cloud Metro solution. 

The ACX7509 is engineered for sustainability that changes the challenges of evolving service requirements and relentless traffic growth imposed by the 5G, IoT, and cloud era into opportunities for providers to thrive.

A key differentiator and operator benefit of the ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers is that all platforms in the portfolio share the same feature set with limited hardware-driven exceptions. Refer to the ACX7000 family of Cloud Metro Routers Datasheet and Table 2 for a list of ACX7000 family features and platform-specific exceptions.

This section lists basic specifications for the ACX7509 router. For further detail, please refer to the hardware installation manuals at www.juniper.net/techpubs.

To learn more about Juniper software licensing, please refer to the ACX Series section of Juniper Licensing User Guide.

ACX7509 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. 

Juniper Networks is the leader in performance-enabling services that are designed to accelerate, extend, and optimize your high-performance network. Our services allow you to maximize operational efficiency while reducing costs and minimizing risk, achieving a faster time to value for your network. Juniper Networks ensures operational excellence by optimizing the network to maintain required levels of performance, reliability, and availability. For more details, please visit  https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products.html.

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