Juniper MX Series: A Comprehensive Guide to Trio Technologies on the MX, 2nd Edition

Discover why routers in the Juniper MX Series—with their advanced feature sets and record-breaking scale—are so popular among enterprises and network service providers. This revised and expanded edition shows you step-by-step how to implement high-density, high-speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet services, using advanced firewall filters, redundant inline services, powerful CoS tool sets, and many other Juniper MX features.

This second edition was written by a Senior NOC Engineer, whose vast experience with the MX Series is well documented. Each chapter covers a specific Juniper MX vertical and includes review questions to help you test what you’ve learned. This edition includes new chapters on load balancing and vMX—Juniper MX’s virtual instance.

• Discover Junos architecture, MX chassis, and Trio Linecards
• Work with Juniper MX’s bridging, VLAN VXLAN, and virtual switches
• Create a firewall filter framework and discover the latest flexible filtering options
• Secure your router and add an extra layer of security with Junos DDOS protection and SCFD feature
• Discover the advantages of hierarchical scheduling, ingress queuing, and flexible remarking
• Combine Juniper MX routers, using a virtual chassis or MC-LAG
• Understand and use classical and advanced Trio Chipset’s load balancing features
• Dive into Trio inline services such as inline NAT, redundant logical tunnel, or filter-based GRE tunnel
• Discover vMX internal architecture and explore the benefits and typical use case of a virtual router

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Juniper Mx Architecture
Chapter 2. Bridging, Vlan Mapping, Irb, And Virtual Switches
Chapter 3. Stateless Filters, Hierarchical Policing, And Tri-Color Marking
Chapter 4. Routing Engine Protection And Ddos Prevention
Chapter 5. Trio Class Of Service
Chapter 6. Mx Virtual Chassis
Chapter 7. Trio Load Balancing
Chapter 8. Trio Inline Services
Chapter 9. Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation
Chapter 10. Junos High Availability On Mx Routers
Chapter 11. The Virtual Mx