EX9250 Line of Ethernet Switches
The EX9250 line of Ethernet switches provides compact, programmable, and scalable core and aggregation devices for enterprise environments, reducing cost and complexity while offering carrier-class reliability.
EX9250 switches empower organizations to deploy an evolved enterprise core, supporting Layer 2 or Layer 3 applications by combining Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technologies. Using these open technologies allows enterprises to create a coherent, end-to-end network across geographically dispersed locations while leveraging unified policies to segment traffic.
Features + Benefits
Compact Form Factor
Shallow depth 1 U and 3 U form factors are ideal for space-constrained enterprise campus closet environments.
End-to-End Network Segmentation
End-to-end network segmentation goes from campus to data center with open Ethernet VPN (EVPN) technology.
Secure Campus Fabric
Switches are connected as an IP fabric with an EVPN-VXLAN overlay. The IP fabric can extend to connect multiple enterprise buildings, while VXLAN allows stretching L2 across the network.
MACsec AES256 Support
Support for IEEE 802.1ae (MACsec AES256) for link-layer data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authentication.
Field-Proven Juniper Technology
Field-proven Juniper technology—including high-performance ASICs, a cloud-grade architecture, and Junos OS—enables EX Series Ethernet Switches to provide always-on reliability for every application.
Product Description
The Juniper Networks® EX9250 line of compact, programmable, and scalable Ethernet switches is ideal for aggregating access switches such as Juniper Networks EX2300, EX3400, EX4300, and EX4600 Ethernet Switches deployed in campus wiring closets and in on-premises data centers.
The EX9250 is also a key component of Juniper’s AI-Driven Enterprise. The switch decouples the overlay network from the underlay with technologies such as Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), addressing the needs of the modern enterprise network by allowing network administrators to create logical L2 networks over different L3 networks.
Two EX9250 chassis options are available, providing considerable deployment flexibility:
- EX9251 Ethernet Switch is a fixed-configuration 1 U chassis that supports 8-port 1GbE/10GbE and 4-port 40GbE/100GbE.
- EX9253 Ethernet Switch is a two-slot modular 3 U chassis that supports any combination of the following line cards:
- EX9253-6Q12C, a 12-port QSFP28 40GbE/100GbE and 6-port QSFP+ 40GbE line card
- EX9253-6Q12C-M, a 12-port QSFP28 40GbE/100GbE and 6-port QSFP+ 40GbE line card with Media Access Control Security (MACsec) support
Fully configured, a single EX9253 chassis can support up to 144 10GbE ports (all at wire speed), delivering one of the industry’s densest line-rate 10GbE port densities for this class of feature-rich and programmable switch. The EX9253 switch is capable of delivering up to 2.4 Tbps per slot.
Architecture Single data, control, and management plane
Power Holds up to two power supplies:
- -40 to -72 V DC (1+1 redundancy)
- Autosensing 120/240 V AC (1+1 redundancy)
- Maximum power draw: 312 W (DC), 300 W (AC)
Cooling Internally redundant fan tray with front-to-back airflow
Weight (fully loaded) 23.15 lb (10.5 kg)
Maximum throughput Up to 800 Gbps
Routing Engine (RE) Integrated single RE
1.6 GHz, 8 core Intel Xeon processor
Up to 32 gigabytes DRAM
Solid-state drive (SSD) (up to 100 GB)
Console, auxiliary serial, and Ethernet management ports USB storage interface
Operating system Juniper Networks Junos operating system
High availability
Hardware designed for continuous operation:
- Secure, modular architecture that isolates faults
- Separate control and forwarding planes that enhance scalability and resiliency
Layer 2 features
Up to 1 million MAC addresses
Up to 512,000 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries with mid-scale (ML) license (256,000 entries without ML license)
Up to 512,000 forwarding information base (FIB) entries with ML license (256,000 entries without ML license)
Jumbo frames (9192 bytes maximum)
32,000 VLANs
VLAN Registration Protocol
802.3ad—Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
802.1D—Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
802.1w—Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
802.1s—Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (VSTP) Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT)
Layer 3 features
1 million IPv4 routing information base (RIB)
1 million IPv6 RIB
Static routing
RIP v1/v2
OSPF v1/v2
OSPF v3
Filter-based forwarding
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IPv6
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Virtual routers
BGP (Advanced Feature license) IS-IS (Advanced Feature license)
Hardware tunneling
GRE tunnels
MPLS capabilities (Advanced Feature License)
VPLS
BGP/MPLS VPNs Ethernet VPNs
Multicast
Up to 256,000 IPv4 multicast routes
Up to 256,000 IPv6 multicast routes
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2/v3
IGMP snooping
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) v1/v2
MLD snooping
Protocol Independent Multicast PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, PIM-DM Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Firewall filters
Ingress and egress L2-L4 access control lists (ACLs):
Port ACLs
VLAN ACLs
Router ACLs Control plane denial-of-service (DoS) protection
Quality of service (QoS)
16,000 policers per chassis
8 egress queues per port
Weighted random early detection (WRED) scheduling
Weighted round-robin (WRR) queuing Strict priority queuing
Virtualization
Integration with Juniper Contrail Platform
Integration with VMware NSX vSphere
Network virtualization protocols such as VXLAN
VXLAN L2 and L3 gateway EVPN and VPLS for DCI
Management
Junos OS CLI
Junos Space® Network Director
Junos XML management protocol
SNMP v1/v2/v3
RADIUS
TACACS+
Extensive MIB support
Firewall-based port mirroring
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Advanced Insight Solutions (AIS)
Architecture Separate dedicated data, control, and management planes
Power Holds up to six power supplies:
- -40 to -72 V DC (3+1 redundancy)
- 100-120 V AC (3+1 redundancy)
- 200-240 V AC (3+1 redundancy)
- Maximum power draw: 2692 W (DC), 2692 W (AC)
Cooling Internally redundant fan tray with front-to-back airflow
Weight (fully loaded) 120 lb (54.43 kg)
Maximum throughput Up to 4.8 Tbps
Routing Engine (RE) Primary and backup REs (1+1 redundancy)
1.6 GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon processor
Up to 64 gigabytes DRAM
Dual front pluggable solid-state drive (SSD) (up to 100 GB each)
Console, auxiliary serial, and Ethernet management ports USB storage interface
Operating system Juniper Networks Junos operating system
High availability
Hardware designed for continuous operation:
- Secure, modular architecture that isolates faults
- Separate control and forwarding planes that enhance scalability and resiliency
- Transparent failover and network recovery
- Graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)
- Nonstop active routing (NSR)
- Nonstop bridging (NSB)
Layer 2 features
Up to 1 million MAC addresses
Up to 512,000 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries with mid-scale (ML) license (256,000 entries without ML license)
Up to 512,000 forwarding information base (FIB) entries with ML license (256,000 entries without ML license)
Jumbo frames (9192 bytes maximum)
32,000 VLANs
VLAN Registration Protocol
802.3ad—Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
802.1D—Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
802.1w—Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
802.1s—Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (VSTP) Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT)
Layer 3 features
1 million IPv4 routing information base (RIB)
1 million IPv6 RIB
Static routing
RIP v1/v2
OSPF v1/v2
OSPF v3
Filter-based forwarding
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IPv6
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Virtual routers
BGP (Advanced Feature license) IS-IS (Advanced Feature license)
Hardware tunneling
GRE tunnels
MPLS capabilities (Advanced Feature License)
VPLS
BGP/MPLS VPNs Ethernet VPNs
Multicast
Up to 256,000 IPv4 multicast routes
Up to 256,000 IPv6 multicast routes
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2/v3
IGMP snooping
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) v1/v2
MLD snooping
1 or 3 RU
24 x 100GbE, 36 x 40GbE, 144 x 10GbE
2 Tbps
4.8 Tbps, 2.4 Tbps per slot
1 million
EVPN-VXLAN, MC-LAG, ESI-LAG