CHAPTER 1
System Overview
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MX960 Router Overview
The MX960 5G Universal Routing Platform is an Ethernet-optimized edge router that provides both
switching and carrier-class Ethernet routing. The MX960 router enables a wide range of business and
residential applications and services, including high-speed transport and VPN services, next-generation
broadband multiplay services, high-speed Internet and data center internetworking.
The MX960 chassis provides redundancy and resiliency. The hardware system is fully redundant, including
power supplies, fan trays, Routing Engines, and Switch Control Boards.
The MX960 router is 16 rack units (U) tall. Three routers can be stacked in a single floor-to-ceiling rack,
for increased port density per unit of floor space. The router provides 14 slots that can be populated with
11 or 12 Dense Port Concentrators (DPCs) or Modular Port Concentrators (MPCs), six Flexible PIC
Concentrators (FPCs), and two Switch Control Boards (SCBs) in nonredundant fabric configurations.
Fully populated, the MX960 router provides an aggregate switch fabric capacity of up to 10.56 Tbps, with
line-rate throughput on 264 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, 22 100-Gigabit Ethernet and 44 10-Gigabit Ethernet
ports and 66 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Table 3 on page 3 lists the MX960 router capacity.
Table 3: MX960 Router Capacity
CapacityDescription
10.56 Tbps half duplexSystem capacity
480 GbpsSwitch fabric capacity per slot
11 or 12 (depending on protection scheme)MPCs and DPCs per chassis
3Chassis per rack
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