Specifications

Up to 560 Gbps of full-duplex traffic for the two MIC slots
WAN-PHY mode on 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on a per port basis
Two separate slots for MICs (MIC6-10G and MIC6-100G-CXP)
Two Packet Forwarding Engines for each MIC slot
Intelligent oversubscription services
[See Protocols and Applications Supported by the MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and
MX2020 MPC5E.]
Feature support on MPC6E—MPC6E supports the following software features in Junos
OS Release 13.3R2:
Basic Layer 2 features and virtual private LAN service (VPLS) functionality, except
for Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
Layer 3 routing protocols
MPLS
Multicast forwarding
Firewall filters and policers
Class of service (CoS)
Tunnel service
Interoperability with existing DPCs and MPCs
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping with bridging, integrated
routing and bridging (IRB), or VPLS
Intelligent hierarchical policers
Layer 2 trunk port
MPLS-fast reroute (FRR) VPLS instance prioritization
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE 1588)
Synchronous Ethernet
The following features are not supported on MPC6E:
Fine-grained queuing and input queuing
Unified in-service software upgrade (ISSU)
Active flow monitoring and services
Virtual Chassis support
[See Protocols and Applications Supported by the MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and
MX2020 MPC5E.]
Support for fixed-configuration MPC on MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and
MX2020 routers—MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010 and MX2020 routers support a
new MPC, MPC5E (model number: MPC5E-40G10G). On the MX2010 and MX2020
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