Specifications

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2.10.3 M160 Specifications
Component Specifications
M160 System
Architecture
160 million packets per second forwarding rate
Clean separation of routing and forwarding functions
160-Gbps ASIC-based Packet Forwarding Engine
Separate, dedicated, Intel-based Routing Engine
running JUNOS Internet Software
8 Flexible PIC Concentrator (FPC) slots; hot
swappable
32 slots available for Physical Interface Cards
(PICs)
Dual, redundant, hot-swappable power supplies (AC
or DC)
Hot-swappable cooling fans and impellers
Industry-leading port density per rack inch
Industry-leading interface flexibility space
requirements and capital investment.
Flexible PIC
Concentrator
(FPC)
12.8-Gbps throughput
Two Packet Director ASICs for dispersing and
balancing packets across the I/O Manager ASICs
Four I/O Manager ASICs for wire-rate parsing,
prioritizing, and queuing of packets
Switch Fabric
Module (SFM)
One Internet Processor II ASIC for 160-Mpps
aggregated packet lookup (40 Mpps per SFM)
Two Distributed Buffer Manager ASICs for coordinating
pooled, single-stage buffering
8-MB of parity-protected SSRAM
Processor subsystem (One PowerPC 603e processor,
256-KB of parity-protected Level 2 cache, and 64-MB of
parity-protected DRAM)
Miscellanous
Control
Subsystem
(MCS)
19.44-MHz stratum 3 reference clock for SONET/SDH
PICs
Controller to monitor the status of router components
Routing Engine
(RE) with
JUNOS Internet
Software
BGP4, with confederations, route reflectors,
communities, route flap damping, TCP MD5
authentication
OSPFv1/v2, IS-IS, RIPv2 interior gateway protocols
Flexible policy software for filtering and modifying
route advertisements
MPLS with RSVP and LDP for traffic engineering
DVMRP, PIM-SM, PIM-DM, IGMP and MSDP for IP
multicast
Configuration management features for enhanced
usability
Secure remote access with SSH, TACACS+ and
RADIUS
Routing Engine
Hardware
333-MHz mobile Pentium II with integrated 256-KB
Level 2 cache
SDRAM (Three 168-pin DIMMs containing 768-MB
ECC SDRAM)
80-MB compact flash drive storage
6.4-GB IDE hard drive for secondary storage
110-MB PC card for tertiary storage
Out-of-band management (One 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
port with auto-sensing RJ-45 connector, and two RS-
232 [DB9 connectors] asynchronous serial ports, one
console and one auxiliary, to connect to a console,
laptop, or terminal server)
Optional redundancy
Physical
Dimensions
Height 35 in / 88.9 cm
Width 19 in / 48.26 cm
Depth 29 in / 73.66 cm