📌 Overview – Juniper MX104

The Juniper MX104 is a compact, high-performance Universal Routing Platform from Juniper’s MX Series. It delivers service-provider-class routing, security, and advanced features in a small form factor that fits environments where space, power, and efficiency are important. It is commonly used in branch aggregation, mobile backhaul, enterprise WAN edge, and small-to-medium provider environments.

Running Junos OS, it offers consistent operations and feature parity with larger MX platforms, making it suitable for distributed deployments that require unified management and advanced routing capabilities.

⚙️ Key Specifications

🖥 Form Factor

• Compact rack-mount design (1 RU or smaller depending on variant)
• Lower power and cooling footprint compared with larger MX models

🚀 Performance

• Designed for edge and aggregation traffic
• Offers scalable forwarding capacity suitable for moderate-to-high throughput edge environments

🔌 Interfaces & Expansion

• Supports Modular Interface Cards (MICs) for flexible port types and densities
• Typical interface support includes:
• 1/10/25/40/100 GbE ports depending on module
• Fiber and copper options depending on interface module chosen
• Expansion options let you tailor port speeds to deployment needs

🔄 Network Processing

• Forwarding and feature processing designed for edge routing workloads
• Hardware-assisted forwarding for optimized performance

⭐ Core Features

🌐 Junos Operating System

• Unified OS across Juniper MX and EX/QFX families
• Provides stable, modular control plane and rich protocol support
• Automation and programmability via CLI, NETCONF, REST, and scripting

🔁 Layer 2 and Layer 3 Services

• Full L2 capabilities:
• VLAN, STP/RSTP/MSTP
• Link aggregation
• Multicast
• Advanced L3 capabilities:
• BGP, OSPF, IS-IS
• MPLS, VRFs
• Static and dynamic routing

🛡 Quality of Service (QoS)

• Fine-grained traffic classification and prioritization
• Traffic policing and shaping for service assurance

🔐 Security & NAT

• Support for ACLs and filtering
• Optional NAT offload (via specific service cards in supported deployments)
• Can integrate firewall and subscriber management functions depending on configurations

🔄 Virtual Chassis & High Availability

• Depending on platform variant, supports virtual chassis or clustering for simplified management and redundancy
• In-service software upgrades (ISSU) for minimal downtime

🔧 Compatibility

🖥 Hardware

• Fits within the Juniper MX Series ecosystem
• Supports Modular Interface Cards (MICs) that match port requirements
• Works with standard optics (SFP/SFP+/QSFP depending on interface)

⚙️ Software

• Operates on Junos OS, same as larger MX routers
• Managed via Junos CLI and supports standard protocols
• Compatible with Juniper automation tools and management platforms

🌐 Protocol Interoperability

• Works with multi-vendor networks using standard protocols:
• BGP, OSPF, IS-IS
• Ethernet, VLAN, MPLS, IP routing
• Integrates with service provider and enterprise infrastructures

📡 Management

• SNMP
• Syslog
• NETCONF, REST APIs
• Telemetry for real-time monitoring