New Juniper WXC appliances

New Juniper WXC appliances

On Monday JNPR 30,15 +0,57 +1,93% launched some new bits of kit in the WXC line, the WXC-1800, WXC-2600, and WXC-3400 devices.

The new appliances are partial replacements and extensions over the existing WXC platforms, and they've taken the additional capabilities of the platforms to reposition devices a little more cleverly than the WXC-250, 500 and 590..

The consists of the following..

WXC-1800 – This seems to be a replacement for the WXC-250, but in a form-factor more closely resembling the WX-15 device. It has a larger hard disk, doubled in size to 80GB, and has a starting point of a 512Kb/s license. It still retains a 10 tunnel limit.
WXC-2600 – This is a middle device, fitting between the old WXC-250 and WXC-500 units. It supports upto 8Mb/s, using a larger 250GB hard disk, and with the potential for 20 tunnels. This is the same physical size as the old WXC-250 unit, but is nearly 2Kg lighter. The key take-away is the -draw, doubled to 300W max, in part due to the larger hard disk, but a larger portion is almost certainly going to be a more powerful processor, and I'd guess more memory (especially since memory has got substantially cheaper over the intervening years)
WXC-3400 – This is the top end device, designed for the data centre.. It features 1TB of disk, but is still a 2U unit. This draws 400W max, up from the 300W of the WXC-590. Licenses start at 10Mb/s, and rise to 45Mb/s.

All these units have a pair of 10/100/1000 Copper ports, except for the WXC-1800 device, which is limited to 10/100 Copper Ethernet ports, for connection to the network via in-line or off-path modes.

John Dixon

John Dixon is the Principal Consultant of thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd, based in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience, (including, but not limited to) operating, designing and optimizing systems and networks for customers from global to domestic in scale. He has worked with many international brands to implement both data centres and wide-area networks across a range of industries. He is currently supporting a major SD-WAN vendor on the implementation of an environment supporting a major global fast-food chain.

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