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EX4300 Multigigabit Ethernet Switch
48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T PoE-plus + 1100 W AC PS (Front-to-back airflow)
The EX4300 Multigigabit Ethernet Switch is a high-performance access switch for advanced branch or campus deployments. The modern campus environment must be able to accommodate devices that require multigigabit speeds of 100M/1/2.5/5/10GbE and greater power connectivity (PoE++) up to 95W per port for Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac access points, high density IP telephony, surveillance cameras, sensors, etc.
The EX4300 Multigigabit switch is cloud-ready and ZTP-enabled, so you can onboard, configure, and manage it with Juniper Mist™ Wired Assurance for improved connected-device experiences. In addition, the Juniper Mist Cloud streamlines deploying and managing your campus fabric, while Mist AI simplifies operations and improves visibility into the performance of connected devices. All access and uplink ports are MACsec AES-256-compliant for increased network security. EX4300 Multigigabit switches support Juniper’s Virtual Chassis technology for interconnecting up to 10 switches that can be managed as a single logical device.
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches delivers the performance, flexibility, and scale required for both campus and data center Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) access switch environments. When deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the EX4300 delivers the operational simplicity and higher logical scale that businesses demand. Combining compact, pay-as-you-grow economics and low power and cooling with the performance, availability, and port densities of chassis-based platforms, the EX4300 enables businesses to deploy with speed and agility to increase revenue and improve productivity.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance
Claim, configure, and troubleshoot switches with a few clicks. Wired Assurance delivers better experiences for connected devices through AI-powered automation and service-level expectations (SLEs) with Mist’s AI engine and microservices cloud.
The EX Switches provide rich streaming telemetry data to enable the insights for switch health metrics and anomaly detection. Streamline IT operations, reduce mean time to repair, and deliver optimized experiences across wired and wireless.
Virtual Chassis
With Virtual Chassis technology, up to ten interconnected EX4300 switches operate as a single logical device, reducing operational expenses and simplifying management.
EX4300 line of Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combines the carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, campus, and branch office environments.
PoE++
The EX4300 Multigigabit switch supports the 802.3bt standard for PoE, supplying up to 95 watts per port for increased requirements of devices such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) terminals, IP phones, and access points.
MACsec AES256 Support
Support for IEEE 802.1ae (MACsec AES256) for link-layer data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authentication enables 88 Gbps of near line-rate, hardware-based traffic encryption on all 1GbE and 10GbE switches.
Campus Fabric
Switches are connected as an IP fabric with EVPN-VXLAN overlay. The IP fabric can extend to connect multiple enterprise buildings, while VXLAN allows stretching Layer 2 (L2) across the network.
The Juniper Networks® EX4300 line of Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combines the carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, campus, and branch office environments. Both 1GbE access and multigigabit switch options are available.
Offering a full suite of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching capabilities, the EX4300 enables a variety of deployments, including campus, branch, and data center access. A single 24-port or 48-port EX4300 switch can be deployed initially. As requirements grow, Juniper’s Virtual Chassis technology allows any combination of up to 10 EX4300 and/or EX4600 switches to be seamlessly interconnected and managed as a single device, delivering a scalable, pay-as-you-grow solution for expanding network environments. A pair of 32-port EX4300 fiber switches can also be deployed as a consolidated aggregation or small core switch. Additionally, the EX4300 can integrate with the Juniper Networks QFX5100 line of 10GbE and 40GbE data center access switches in a single stack or Virtual Chassis configuration, enabling nondisruptive 10GbE server upgrades and simplified management of a mixed access environment.
The EX4300 switches can be interconnected over multiple 40GbE quad small form-factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver ports to form a 320 gigabit per second (Gbps) backplane. A flexible uplink module that supports both 1GbE and 10GbE options is also available, enabling high-speed connectivity to aggregation- or core-layer switches which connect multiple floors or buildings.
All EX4300 switches include high availability (HA) features such as redundant, hot-swappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable fans to ensure maximum uptime. In addition, Power over Ethernet (PoE)-enabled EX4300 switch models offer standards-based 802.3at PoE+ for delivering up to 30 watts on all ports to support high-density IP telephony and 802.11n wireless access point deployments.
Additionally, a multigigabit model, the EX4300-48MP, supports IEEE 802.3bz-compliant 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds on access ports. This enables 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, which require higher bandwidth, to connect to the switch. The EX4300 multigigabit switch also supports up to 95 watts of power on any of the access ports, enabling PoE++ devices requiring more than 30 watts to connect to and draw power from the switch.
The EX4300 multigigabit switch also enables higher levels of Media Access Control Security (MACsec) AES256 encryption on all access and uplink ports, protecting customer traffic from unauthorized access. The EX4300-48MP includes four dedicated 40GbE QSFP+ transceiver ports that can be used as Virtual Chassis ports to create a 320 Gbps backplane.
The fixed-configuration EX4300 switches include a number of high availability features typically associated with chassis-based solutions, including the following:
• Hot-swappable fans
• Modular Juniper Networks Junos® operating system (consistent with chassis systems)
• Dual Routing Engines (REs) with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) in a Virtual Chassis configuration
• Single management interface
• Easy, centralized software upgrades
• Scalability from 24 to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 24 to 240 100/1000/2500/5000/10000BASE-T ports, with up to 40 10GbE uplinks and 40 40GbE uplinks (up to 40 10GbE uplinks, 20 40GbE uplinks, or 20 100GbE uplinks on multigigabit models, in addition to four dedicated 40 Gbps Virtual Chassis ports per switch)
Each EX4300 switch includes a single ASIC-based Packet Forwarding Engine, the EX-PFE. The integrated Routing Engine (RE) delivers all control plane functionality. The EX4300 also leverages the same modular Junos OS as other Juniper Networks switches, routers, and security devices, ensuring a consistent implementation and operation of control plane features across the Juniper Networks infrastructure.
The EX4300 switches are single rack unit (1 U) devices that deliver a compact solution for crowded wiring closets and access switch locations where space and power are at a premium. Each EX4300 supports standard 40GbE QSFP+ ports which are preconfigured to support high-speed Virtual Chassis backplane connections; on the 1GbE access switches, these ports can also serve as uplinks to upstream aggregation devices. In addition, each EX4300 supports an optional front panel uplink module offering 1GbE or 10GbE ports for high-speed backbone or link aggregation connections between wiring closets and upstream aggregation switches; the multigigabit model offers a choice between a 4-port 10GbE SFP+ uplink module or a 2-port 40GbE QSFP+/2-port 100GbE QSFP28 uplink module. Uplink modules can be installed without powering down the switch, enabling users to add high-speed connectivity at any time or migrate from one uplink type to the other, delivering the ultimate in flexible, high-performance interconnectivity.
The 1GbE access EX4300 models also feature a front panel LCD that offers a flexible interface for performing device bring-up and configuration rollbacks, reporting switch alarm and LED status, or restoring the switch to its default settings. When deployed as a member of a Virtual Chassis configuration, the LCD also displays the switch’s chassis “slot number” and RE status for rapid identification and problem resolution.
The four integrated rear panel 40GbE QSFP+ ports support EX4300 Virtual Chassis deployment over a 320 Gbps virtual backplane. When deployed in close proximity such as in wiring closets or in top-of-rack data center applications, the EX4300 switches can be securely connected using standard 40GbE QSFP+ direct attach copper (DAC) cables (available in 50 cm, 1 m, 3 m, and 5 m lengths).
Switches deployed in Virtual Chassis configurations spread over larger areas can be interconnected using optical QSFP+ transceivers such as the QSFP+ SR4, which supports distances up to 150 m.
A dedicated rear panel RJ-45 port is available for out-of-band management, while a rear panel USB port can be used to easily upload Junos OS and configuration files. In addition, a dedicated front panel USB console port and a rear panel RJ-45 console port offer flexible out-of-band console options.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, a cloud-based service driven by Mist AI to claim, configure, manage, and troubleshoot the EX4300, delivers AI-powered automation and service levels to ensure a better experience for connected devices. Wired Assurance leverages rich Junos switch telemetry data to simplify operations, reduce mean time to repair, and improve visibility. Wired Assurance offers the following features:
• Day 0 operations - Onboard switches seamlessly by claiming a greenfield switch or adopting a brownfield switch with a single activation code for true plug-and-play simplicity.
• Day 1 operations - Implement a template-based configuration model for bulk rollouts of traditional and campus fabric deployments, while retaining the flexibility and control required to apply custom site- or switch-specific attributes. Automate provisioning of ports via Dynamic Port Profiles.
• Day 2 operations - Leverage the AI in Juniper Mist Wired Assurance to meet service-level expectations such as throughput, successful connects, and switch health with key pre- and post-connection metrics (see Figure 1). Add the self-driving capabilities in Marvis Actions to detect loops, add missing VLANs, fix misconfigured ports, identify bad cables, isolate flapping ports, and discover persistently failing clients (see Figure 2). And perform software upgrades easily through Juniper Mist cloud.
The addition of Marvis, a complementary Virtual Network Assistant driven by Mist AI, lets you start building a self-driving network that simplifies network operations and streamlines troubleshooting via automatic fixes for EX Series switches or recommended actions for external systems.
The EX4300-48MP embraces open standards and extends the industry-standard Ethernet VPN (EVPN)-Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology already supported for campus fabric IP Clos networks. An IP Clos network between the distribution and the core layers can exist in two modes: centrally routed bridging overlay or edge routed bridging overlay.
With enterprise applications moving to the cloud, it has become necessary to deploy IP fabrics as enterprise fabrics with L2 extensions using VXLAN. The EX4300-48MP is capable of both L2 and L3 VXLAN gateway services, allowing you to deploy networks that provide L2 adjacencies for applications over L3 fabrics. EVPN-VXLAN offers a scalable way to build and interconnect multiple campuses, delivering:
• Greater network efficiency
• Compliance with industry standards
• Scalability across all network layers
• Faster convergence
• Flexible and secure architecture
Juniper campus fabrics support these validated architectures with the EX4300 switch playing the role of access switch:
EVPN multihoming (collapsed core or distribution): A collapsed core architecture combines the core and distribution layers into a single switch, turning the traditional three-tier hierarchal network into a two-tier network. This eliminates the need for STP across the campus network by providing multihoming capabilities from the access to the core layer. EVPN multihoming can be deployed and managed using the Juniper Mist cloud.
Core/distribution: A pair of interconnected EX Series core or distribution switches provide L2 EVPN and L3 VXLAN gateway support. The IP Clos network between the distribution and core layers offers two modes: centrally or edge routed bridging overlay.
In all these EVPN-VXLAN deployment modes, EX4300 switches can be used in Virtual Chassis configurations.
Up to 10 EX4300 switches can be interconnected using Virtual Chassis technology, creating a single logical device supporting up to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, plus up to 40 10GbE or 40 40GbE uplink ports. For mixed 1GbE and 10GbE access environments, the EX4300 can be interconnected with the EX4600 enterprise campus and QFX5100 high-performance data center access switches. EX4300 Virtual Chassis configurations can be created to support a variety of port and density options for data center, campus, and branch deployments. Virtual Chassis connections can be formed using any of the 40GbE ports or 10GbE ports using standard DAC cables and optics. The EX4300 does not support Virtual Chassis technology on the GbE copper or fiber ports.
With the EX4300 multigigabit model, up to 10 switches can be interconnected using dedicated 40GbE ports through Virtual Chassis technology, creating a single logical device supporting up to 240 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 240 100/1000/2500/5000/10000BASE-T ports, with up to 40 10GbE uplinks, 20 40GbE uplinks, or 20 100GbE uplinks. The multigigabit EX4300 can also participate in a 10-member mixed-mode Virtual Chassis configuration with other 1GbE EX4300 access switches.
In campus wiring closets, flexible topologies can be created usingstandard QSFP+ optics on the 40GbE ports to extend the VirtualChassis configuration across long distances spanning multiple wiringclosets, floors, or even buildings while using 10GbE or 40GbE foruplink connectivity. EX4300 fiber-based switches can also be usedfor campus aggregation or small core deployments.
When deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration in the data center, all EX4300 switches are monitored and managed as a single device, enabling enterprises to separate physical topology from logical groupings of endpoints and allowing more efficient resource utilization. Highly resilient topologies can also be created using the 40GbE DAC cables.
In data center top-of-rack deployments, a full mesh five-switch Virtual Chassis configuration can be created where every switch member is just one hop away from every other member, delivering the lowest possible latency. A mesh spanning distances of up to 150 meters can be created using standard QSFP+ optics on the 40GbE ports (DAC cables up to 3 m in length are available for shorter distances), while 10GbE ports can be used as uplinks to connect to upstream aggregation or core devices.
Existing Virtual Chassis technology is further scaled and enhanced to support a spine-and-leaf topology that is ideal for high-performance and low-latency data center deployments. In its first instance, this topology, called Virtual Chassis Fabric, enables up to 20 switches to be deployed in a spine-and-leaf configuration, with two to four QFX5100 switches in the spine and up to 18 QFX5100 or EX4300 switches as leaf nodes. This architecture provides any-rack-to-any-rack deterministic throughput and low latency, while significantly simplifying network operations through a single point of management. A Virtual Chassis Fabric configuration supports mixed 1GbE, 10GbE, and 40GbE servers.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings cloud management and Mist AI to campus fabric. It sets a new standard moving away from traditional network management towards AI-driven operations, while delivering better experiences to connected devices. The Juniper Mist cloud streamlines deployment and management of campus fabric architectures by allowing:
• Automated deployment and zero touch deployment
• Anomaly detection
• Root cause analysis
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches delivers high availability through redundant power supplies and fans, GRES, and nonstop bridging and routing when deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration.
In a Virtual Chassis configuration, each EX4300 switch is capable of functioning as a Routing Engine. When two or more EX4300 switches are interconnected, a single control plane is shared among all Virtual Chassis member switches. When two EX4300 switches are interconnected, Junos OS automatically initiates an election process to assign a primary (active) and backup (hot-standby) RE. An integrated L2 and L3 GRES feature maintains uninterrupted access to applications, services, and IP communications in the unlikely event of a primary RE failure.
When more than two switches are interconnected in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the remaining switch elements act as line cards and are available to assume the backup RE position should the designated primary fail. Primary, backup, and line card priority status can be assigned to dictate the order of ascension; this N+1 RE redundancy, coupled with the GRES, nonstop routing (NSR), and nonstop bridging (NSB) capabilities of Junos OS, assures a smooth transfer of control plane functions following unexpected failures.
The EX4300 implements the same slot/module/port numbering schema as other Juniper Networks chassis-based products when numbering Virtual Chassis ports, providing true chassis-like operations. By using a consistent operating system and a single configuration file, all switches in a Virtual Chassis configuration are treated as a single device, simplifying overall system maintenance and management.
In a mixed Virtual Chassis configuration with both EX4300 1GbE access and multigigabit switches, the EX4300 multigigabit switches must assume the role of the RE, while the 1GbE access EX4300 switches can only act as line cards.
Individually, the EX4300 offers a number of HA features that are typically associated with modular chassis-based switches. When combined with the field-proven Junos OS and L2/L3 failover capabilities, these features provide the EX4300 with true carrier-class reliability.
• Redundant power supplies: The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches supports internal redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable, and field-replaceable power supplies to maintain uninterrupted operations. Thanks to its compact footprint, the EX4300 requires significantly less power than chassis-based switches delivering equivalent port densities. The EX4300 1GbE access switches offer both AC and DC options, while the EX4300 multigigabit switch supports only AC power supplies.
• Hot-swappable fans: The EX4300 includes hot-swappable fans, providing sufficient cooling even if one of the fans were to fail.
• Nonstop bridging and nonstop routing: NSB and NSR on the EX4300 ensure that control plane protocols, states, and tables are synchronized between primary and standby REs to prevent protocol flaps or convergence issues following a Routing Engine failover.
• Redundant trunk group (RTG): To avoid the complexities of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) without sacrificing network resiliency, the EX4300 employs redundant trunk groups to provide the necessary port redundancy and simplify switch configuration.
• Cross-member link aggregation: Cross-member link aggregation allows redundant link aggregation connections between devices in a single Virtual Chassis configuration, providing an additional level of reliability and availability.
• Carrier-class hardware: The EX4300 leverages a purpose-built packet forwarding engine ASIC, the EX-PFE, which integrates much of the same intellectual property used in Juniper’s carrier-class routers. As a result, the EX4300 delivers the same predictable, scalable functionality found in the world’s largest networks.
• IPv4 and IPv6 routing support: IPv4 and IPv6 Layer 3 routing (OSPF and BGP) is available with an Enhanced license, enabling highly resilient networks.
The EX4300 runs on Junos OS, the same operating system software used by other Juniper Networks switches, routers, and security devices.
By utilizing a common operating system, Juniper delivers a consistent implementation and operation of control plane features across all products. To maintain that consistency, Junos OS adheres to a highly disciplined development process that uses a single source code, follows a single quarterly release train, and employs a highly available modular architecture that prevents isolated failures from bringing an entire system down.
These attributes are fundamental to the core value of the software, enabling all products powered by Junos OS to be updated simultaneously with the same software release. All features are fully regression tested, making each new release a true superset of the previous version. Customers can deploy the software with complete confidence that all existing capabilities will be maintained and operate in the same way.
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches provides the highest levels of availability for the most demanding converged data, voice, and video environments, delivering the most reliable platform for unifying enterprise communications.
The EX4300 supports rich quality of service (QoS) functionality for prioritizing data, voice, and video traffic. The switches support 12 QoS queues on every port, enabling them to maintain multilevel, end-to-end traffic prioritizations. The EX4300 also supports a wide range of policy options, including priority and weighted deficit round-robin (WDRR) queuing.
By providing 15.4 watts of Class 3 802.3af PoE on all ports to power voice over IP (VoIP) telephones, closed-circuit security cameras, wireless access points, and other IP-enabled devices, the EX4300 delivers a future-proofed solution for converging disparate networks onto a single IP infrastructure. The EX4300 switches also support standards-based 802.3at PoE+, which delivers up to 30 watts per port for powering networked devices such as multiple radio IEEE 802.11n wireless access points and video phones that may require more power than available with IEEE 802.3af. The EX4300 multigigabit switch supports pre-standard IEEE 802.3bt PoE++, which delivers up to 95 watts per port for powering devices requiring more than the 30 watts of power provided by PoE+.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol–Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED)-based granular PoE/PoE+ management allows the EX4300 to negotiate PoE/PoE+ usage down to a fraction of a watt on powered devices, enabling more efficient PoE utilization across the switch.
To ease deployment, the EX4300 supports the industry-standard LLDP and LLDP-MED, which enable the switches to automatically discover Ethernet-enabled devices, determine their power requirements, and assign virtual LAN (VLAN) parameters.
The EX4300 supports the IEEE 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) functionality, reducing power consumption of copper physical layers (PHY) during periods of low link utilization.
The EX4300 provides a full complement of port security features, including Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping, dynamic ARP inspection (DAI), IP source guard, and media access control (MAC) limiting (per port and per VLAN) to defend against internal and external spoofing, man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
EX4300 switches support IEEE 802.1AE MACsec, providing support for link-layer data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authentication. The MACsec feature enables the EX4300 to support 88 Gbps of near line-rate hardware-based traffic encryption on all GbE and 10GbE ports, including the base unit and optional uplink modules. The multigigabit EX4300 model supports the MACsec AES 256 standard for encrypting traffic on all access and uplink ports.
Defined by IEEE 802.1AE, MACsec provides secure, encrypted communication at the link layer that is capable of identifying and preventing threats from denial of service (DoS) and intrusion attacks, as well as man-in-the-middle, masquerading, passive wiretapping, and playback attacks launched from behind the firewall. When MACsec is deployed on switch ports, all traffic is encrypted on the wire but traffic inside the switch is not. This allows the switch to apply all network policies such as QoS, deep packet inspection, and sFlow to each packet without compromising the security of packets on the wire.
Hop-by-hop encryption enables MACsec to secure communications while maintaining network intelligence. In addition, Ethernet-based WAN networks can use MACsec to provide link security over long haul connections. MACsec is transparent to Layer 3 and higher layer protocols and is not limited to IP traffic; it works with any type of wired or wireless traffic carried over Ethernet links.
When employing Virtual Chassis technology, the EX4300 dramatically simplifies network management. Up to 10 interconnected EX4300 switches can be managed as a single device. Each Virtual Chassis group uses a single Junos OS image file and a single configuration file, reducing the overall number of units to monitor and manage. When Junos OS is upgraded on the primary switch in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the software is automatically upgraded on all other member switches at the same time.
The EX4300 also includes port profiles that allow network administrators to automatically configure ports with security, QoS, and other parameters based on the type of device connected to the port. Six preconfigured profiles are available, including default, desktop, desktop plus IP phone, wireless access point, routed uplink, and L2 uplink. Users can select from the existing profiles or create their own and apply them through the command line interface (CLI), Junos Web interface, or management system.
Juniper Flex licensing offers a common, simple, and flexible licensing model for EX Series access switches, enabling customers to purchase features based on their network and business needs.
Flex licensing is offered in Standard, Advanced, and Premium tiers. Standard tier features are available with the Junos OS image that ships with EX Series switches. Additional features can be unlocked with the purchase of a Flex Advanced or Flex Premium license.
The Flex Advanced and Premium licenses for the EX Series platforms are class based, determined by the number of access ports on the switch. Class 1 (C1) switches have 12 ports, Class 2 (C2) switches have 24 ports, and Class 3 (C3) switches have 32 or 48 ports.
The EX4300 switches support both subscription and perpetual Flex licenses. Subscription licenses are offered for three- and five-year terms. In addition to Junos features, the Flex Advanced and Premium subscription licenses include Juniper Mist Wired Assurance. Flex Advanced and Premium subscription licenses also allow portability across the same tier and class of switches, ensuring investment protection for the customer.
Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file
EX4300 Multigigabit Ethernet Switch
48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T PoE-plus + 1100 W AC PS (Front-to-back airflow)
The EX4300 Multigigabit Ethernet Switch is a high-performance access switch for advanced branch or campus deployments. The modern campus environment must be able to accommodate devices that require multigigabit speeds of 100M/1/2.5/5/10GbE and greater power connectivity (PoE++) up to 95W per port for Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac access points, high density IP telephony, surveillance cameras, sensors, etc.
The EX4300 Multigigabit switch is cloud-ready and ZTP-enabled, so you can onboard, configure, and manage it with Juniper Mist™ Wired Assurance for improved connected-device experiences. In addition, the Juniper Mist Cloud streamlines deploying and managing your campus fabric, while Mist AI simplifies operations and improves visibility into the performance of connected devices. All access and uplink ports are MACsec AES-256-compliant for increased network security. EX4300 Multigigabit switches support Juniper’s Virtual Chassis technology for interconnecting up to 10 switches that can be managed as a single logical device.
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches delivers the performance, flexibility, and scale required for both campus and data center Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) access switch environments. When deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the EX4300 delivers the operational simplicity and higher logical scale that businesses demand. Combining compact, pay-as-you-grow economics and low power and cooling with the performance, availability, and port densities of chassis-based platforms, the EX4300 enables businesses to deploy with speed and agility to increase revenue and improve productivity.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance
Claim, configure, and troubleshoot switches with a few clicks. Wired Assurance delivers better experiences for connected devices through AI-powered automation and service-level expectations (SLEs) with Mist’s AI engine and microservices cloud.
The EX Switches provide rich streaming telemetry data to enable the insights for switch health metrics and anomaly detection. Streamline IT operations, reduce mean time to repair, and deliver optimized experiences across wired and wireless.
Virtual Chassis
With Virtual Chassis technology, up to ten interconnected EX4300 switches operate as a single logical device, reducing operational expenses and simplifying management.
EX4300 line of Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combines the carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, campus, and branch office environments.
PoE++
The EX4300 Multigigabit switch supports the 802.3bt standard for PoE, supplying up to 95 watts per port for increased requirements of devices such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) terminals, IP phones, and access points.
MACsec AES256 Support
Support for IEEE 802.1ae (MACsec AES256) for link-layer data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authentication enables 88 Gbps of near line-rate, hardware-based traffic encryption on all 1GbE and 10GbE switches.
Campus Fabric
Switches are connected as an IP fabric with EVPN-VXLAN overlay. The IP fabric can extend to connect multiple enterprise buildings, while VXLAN allows stretching Layer 2 (L2) across the network.
The Juniper Networks® EX4300 line of Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combines the carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, campus, and branch office environments. Both 1GbE access and multigigabit switch options are available.
Offering a full suite of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching capabilities, the EX4300 enables a variety of deployments, including campus, branch, and data center access. A single 24-port or 48-port EX4300 switch can be deployed initially. As requirements grow, Juniper’s Virtual Chassis technology allows any combination of up to 10 EX4300 and/or EX4600 switches to be seamlessly interconnected and managed as a single device, delivering a scalable, pay-as-you-grow solution for expanding network environments. A pair of 32-port EX4300 fiber switches can also be deployed as a consolidated aggregation or small core switch. Additionally, the EX4300 can integrate with the Juniper Networks QFX5100 line of 10GbE and 40GbE data center access switches in a single stack or Virtual Chassis configuration, enabling nondisruptive 10GbE server upgrades and simplified management of a mixed access environment.
The EX4300 switches can be interconnected over multiple 40GbE quad small form-factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver ports to form a 320 gigabit per second (Gbps) backplane. A flexible uplink module that supports both 1GbE and 10GbE options is also available, enabling high-speed connectivity to aggregation- or core-layer switches which connect multiple floors or buildings.
All EX4300 switches include high availability (HA) features such as redundant, hot-swappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable fans to ensure maximum uptime. In addition, Power over Ethernet (PoE)-enabled EX4300 switch models offer standards-based 802.3at PoE+ for delivering up to 30 watts on all ports to support high-density IP telephony and 802.11n wireless access point deployments.
Additionally, a multigigabit model, the EX4300-48MP, supports IEEE 802.3bz-compliant 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds on access ports. This enables 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, which require higher bandwidth, to connect to the switch. The EX4300 multigigabit switch also supports up to 95 watts of power on any of the access ports, enabling PoE++ devices requiring more than 30 watts to connect to and draw power from the switch.
The EX4300 multigigabit switch also enables higher levels of Media Access Control Security (MACsec) AES256 encryption on all access and uplink ports, protecting customer traffic from unauthorized access. The EX4300-48MP includes four dedicated 40GbE QSFP+ transceiver ports that can be used as Virtual Chassis ports to create a 320 Gbps backplane.
The fixed-configuration EX4300 switches include a number of high availability features typically associated with chassis-based solutions, including the following:
• Hot-swappable fans
• Modular Juniper Networks Junos® operating system (consistent with chassis systems)
• Dual Routing Engines (REs) with graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) in a Virtual Chassis configuration
• Single management interface
• Easy, centralized software upgrades
• Scalability from 24 to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 24 to 240 100/1000/2500/5000/10000BASE-T ports, with up to 40 10GbE uplinks and 40 40GbE uplinks (up to 40 10GbE uplinks, 20 40GbE uplinks, or 20 100GbE uplinks on multigigabit models, in addition to four dedicated 40 Gbps Virtual Chassis ports per switch)
Each EX4300 switch includes a single ASIC-based Packet Forwarding Engine, the EX-PFE. The integrated Routing Engine (RE) delivers all control plane functionality. The EX4300 also leverages the same modular Junos OS as other Juniper Networks switches, routers, and security devices, ensuring a consistent implementation and operation of control plane features across the Juniper Networks infrastructure.
The EX4300 switches are single rack unit (1 U) devices that deliver a compact solution for crowded wiring closets and access switch locations where space and power are at a premium. Each EX4300 supports standard 40GbE QSFP+ ports which are preconfigured to support high-speed Virtual Chassis backplane connections; on the 1GbE access switches, these ports can also serve as uplinks to upstream aggregation devices. In addition, each EX4300 supports an optional front panel uplink module offering 1GbE or 10GbE ports for high-speed backbone or link aggregation connections between wiring closets and upstream aggregation switches; the multigigabit model offers a choice between a 4-port 10GbE SFP+ uplink module or a 2-port 40GbE QSFP+/2-port 100GbE QSFP28 uplink module. Uplink modules can be installed without powering down the switch, enabling users to add high-speed connectivity at any time or migrate from one uplink type to the other, delivering the ultimate in flexible, high-performance interconnectivity.
The 1GbE access EX4300 models also feature a front panel LCD that offers a flexible interface for performing device bring-up and configuration rollbacks, reporting switch alarm and LED status, or restoring the switch to its default settings. When deployed as a member of a Virtual Chassis configuration, the LCD also displays the switch’s chassis “slot number” and RE status for rapid identification and problem resolution.
The four integrated rear panel 40GbE QSFP+ ports support EX4300 Virtual Chassis deployment over a 320 Gbps virtual backplane. When deployed in close proximity such as in wiring closets or in top-of-rack data center applications, the EX4300 switches can be securely connected using standard 40GbE QSFP+ direct attach copper (DAC) cables (available in 50 cm, 1 m, 3 m, and 5 m lengths).
Switches deployed in Virtual Chassis configurations spread over larger areas can be interconnected using optical QSFP+ transceivers such as the QSFP+ SR4, which supports distances up to 150 m.
A dedicated rear panel RJ-45 port is available for out-of-band management, while a rear panel USB port can be used to easily upload Junos OS and configuration files. In addition, a dedicated front panel USB console port and a rear panel RJ-45 console port offer flexible out-of-band console options.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, a cloud-based service driven by Mist AI to claim, configure, manage, and troubleshoot the EX4300, delivers AI-powered automation and service levels to ensure a better experience for connected devices. Wired Assurance leverages rich Junos switch telemetry data to simplify operations, reduce mean time to repair, and improve visibility. Wired Assurance offers the following features:
• Day 0 operations - Onboard switches seamlessly by claiming a greenfield switch or adopting a brownfield switch with a single activation code for true plug-and-play simplicity.
• Day 1 operations - Implement a template-based configuration model for bulk rollouts of traditional and campus fabric deployments, while retaining the flexibility and control required to apply custom site- or switch-specific attributes. Automate provisioning of ports via Dynamic Port Profiles.
• Day 2 operations - Leverage the AI in Juniper Mist Wired Assurance to meet service-level expectations such as throughput, successful connects, and switch health with key pre- and post-connection metrics (see Figure 1). Add the self-driving capabilities in Marvis Actions to detect loops, add missing VLANs, fix misconfigured ports, identify bad cables, isolate flapping ports, and discover persistently failing clients (see Figure 2). And perform software upgrades easily through Juniper Mist cloud.
The addition of Marvis, a complementary Virtual Network Assistant driven by Mist AI, lets you start building a self-driving network that simplifies network operations and streamlines troubleshooting via automatic fixes for EX Series switches or recommended actions for external systems.
The EX4300-48MP embraces open standards and extends the industry-standard Ethernet VPN (EVPN)-Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology already supported for campus fabric IP Clos networks. An IP Clos network between the distribution and the core layers can exist in two modes: centrally routed bridging overlay or edge routed bridging overlay.
With enterprise applications moving to the cloud, it has become necessary to deploy IP fabrics as enterprise fabrics with L2 extensions using VXLAN. The EX4300-48MP is capable of both L2 and L3 VXLAN gateway services, allowing you to deploy networks that provide L2 adjacencies for applications over L3 fabrics. EVPN-VXLAN offers a scalable way to build and interconnect multiple campuses, delivering:
• Greater network efficiency
• Compliance with industry standards
• Scalability across all network layers
• Faster convergence
• Flexible and secure architecture
Juniper campus fabrics support these validated architectures with the EX4300 switch playing the role of access switch:
EVPN multihoming (collapsed core or distribution): A collapsed core architecture combines the core and distribution layers into a single switch, turning the traditional three-tier hierarchal network into a two-tier network. This eliminates the need for STP across the campus network by providing multihoming capabilities from the access to the core layer. EVPN multihoming can be deployed and managed using the Juniper Mist cloud.
Core/distribution: A pair of interconnected EX Series core or distribution switches provide L2 EVPN and L3 VXLAN gateway support. The IP Clos network between the distribution and core layers offers two modes: centrally or edge routed bridging overlay.
In all these EVPN-VXLAN deployment modes, EX4300 switches can be used in Virtual Chassis configurations.
Up to 10 EX4300 switches can be interconnected using Virtual Chassis technology, creating a single logical device supporting up to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, plus up to 40 10GbE or 40 40GbE uplink ports. For mixed 1GbE and 10GbE access environments, the EX4300 can be interconnected with the EX4600 enterprise campus and QFX5100 high-performance data center access switches. EX4300 Virtual Chassis configurations can be created to support a variety of port and density options for data center, campus, and branch deployments. Virtual Chassis connections can be formed using any of the 40GbE ports or 10GbE ports using standard DAC cables and optics. The EX4300 does not support Virtual Chassis technology on the GbE copper or fiber ports.
With the EX4300 multigigabit model, up to 10 switches can be interconnected using dedicated 40GbE ports through Virtual Chassis technology, creating a single logical device supporting up to 240 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 240 100/1000/2500/5000/10000BASE-T ports, with up to 40 10GbE uplinks, 20 40GbE uplinks, or 20 100GbE uplinks. The multigigabit EX4300 can also participate in a 10-member mixed-mode Virtual Chassis configuration with other 1GbE EX4300 access switches.
In campus wiring closets, flexible topologies can be created usingstandard QSFP+ optics on the 40GbE ports to extend the VirtualChassis configuration across long distances spanning multiple wiringclosets, floors, or even buildings while using 10GbE or 40GbE foruplink connectivity. EX4300 fiber-based switches can also be usedfor campus aggregation or small core deployments.
When deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration in the data center, all EX4300 switches are monitored and managed as a single device, enabling enterprises to separate physical topology from logical groupings of endpoints and allowing more efficient resource utilization. Highly resilient topologies can also be created using the 40GbE DAC cables.
In data center top-of-rack deployments, a full mesh five-switch Virtual Chassis configuration can be created where every switch member is just one hop away from every other member, delivering the lowest possible latency. A mesh spanning distances of up to 150 meters can be created using standard QSFP+ optics on the 40GbE ports (DAC cables up to 3 m in length are available for shorter distances), while 10GbE ports can be used as uplinks to connect to upstream aggregation or core devices.
Existing Virtual Chassis technology is further scaled and enhanced to support a spine-and-leaf topology that is ideal for high-performance and low-latency data center deployments. In its first instance, this topology, called Virtual Chassis Fabric, enables up to 20 switches to be deployed in a spine-and-leaf configuration, with two to four QFX5100 switches in the spine and up to 18 QFX5100 or EX4300 switches as leaf nodes. This architecture provides any-rack-to-any-rack deterministic throughput and low latency, while significantly simplifying network operations through a single point of management. A Virtual Chassis Fabric configuration supports mixed 1GbE, 10GbE, and 40GbE servers.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings cloud management and Mist AI to campus fabric. It sets a new standard moving away from traditional network management towards AI-driven operations, while delivering better experiences to connected devices. The Juniper Mist cloud streamlines deployment and management of campus fabric architectures by allowing:
• Automated deployment and zero touch deployment
• Anomaly detection
• Root cause analysis
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches delivers high availability through redundant power supplies and fans, GRES, and nonstop bridging and routing when deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration.
In a Virtual Chassis configuration, each EX4300 switch is capable of functioning as a Routing Engine. When two or more EX4300 switches are interconnected, a single control plane is shared among all Virtual Chassis member switches. When two EX4300 switches are interconnected, Junos OS automatically initiates an election process to assign a primary (active) and backup (hot-standby) RE. An integrated L2 and L3 GRES feature maintains uninterrupted access to applications, services, and IP communications in the unlikely event of a primary RE failure.
When more than two switches are interconnected in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the remaining switch elements act as line cards and are available to assume the backup RE position should the designated primary fail. Primary, backup, and line card priority status can be assigned to dictate the order of ascension; this N+1 RE redundancy, coupled with the GRES, nonstop routing (NSR), and nonstop bridging (NSB) capabilities of Junos OS, assures a smooth transfer of control plane functions following unexpected failures.
The EX4300 implements the same slot/module/port numbering schema as other Juniper Networks chassis-based products when numbering Virtual Chassis ports, providing true chassis-like operations. By using a consistent operating system and a single configuration file, all switches in a Virtual Chassis configuration are treated as a single device, simplifying overall system maintenance and management.
In a mixed Virtual Chassis configuration with both EX4300 1GbE access and multigigabit switches, the EX4300 multigigabit switches must assume the role of the RE, while the 1GbE access EX4300 switches can only act as line cards.
Individually, the EX4300 offers a number of HA features that are typically associated with modular chassis-based switches. When combined with the field-proven Junos OS and L2/L3 failover capabilities, these features provide the EX4300 with true carrier-class reliability.
• Redundant power supplies: The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches supports internal redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable, and field-replaceable power supplies to maintain uninterrupted operations. Thanks to its compact footprint, the EX4300 requires significantly less power than chassis-based switches delivering equivalent port densities. The EX4300 1GbE access switches offer both AC and DC options, while the EX4300 multigigabit switch supports only AC power supplies.
• Hot-swappable fans: The EX4300 includes hot-swappable fans, providing sufficient cooling even if one of the fans were to fail.
• Nonstop bridging and nonstop routing: NSB and NSR on the EX4300 ensure that control plane protocols, states, and tables are synchronized between primary and standby REs to prevent protocol flaps or convergence issues following a Routing Engine failover.
• Redundant trunk group (RTG): To avoid the complexities of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) without sacrificing network resiliency, the EX4300 employs redundant trunk groups to provide the necessary port redundancy and simplify switch configuration.
• Cross-member link aggregation: Cross-member link aggregation allows redundant link aggregation connections between devices in a single Virtual Chassis configuration, providing an additional level of reliability and availability.
• Carrier-class hardware: The EX4300 leverages a purpose-built packet forwarding engine ASIC, the EX-PFE, which integrates much of the same intellectual property used in Juniper’s carrier-class routers. As a result, the EX4300 delivers the same predictable, scalable functionality found in the world’s largest networks.
• IPv4 and IPv6 routing support: IPv4 and IPv6 Layer 3 routing (OSPF and BGP) is available with an Enhanced license, enabling highly resilient networks.
The EX4300 runs on Junos OS, the same operating system software used by other Juniper Networks switches, routers, and security devices.
By utilizing a common operating system, Juniper delivers a consistent implementation and operation of control plane features across all products. To maintain that consistency, Junos OS adheres to a highly disciplined development process that uses a single source code, follows a single quarterly release train, and employs a highly available modular architecture that prevents isolated failures from bringing an entire system down.
These attributes are fundamental to the core value of the software, enabling all products powered by Junos OS to be updated simultaneously with the same software release. All features are fully regression tested, making each new release a true superset of the previous version. Customers can deploy the software with complete confidence that all existing capabilities will be maintained and operate in the same way.
The EX4300 line of Ethernet switches provides the highest levels of availability for the most demanding converged data, voice, and video environments, delivering the most reliable platform for unifying enterprise communications.
The EX4300 supports rich quality of service (QoS) functionality for prioritizing data, voice, and video traffic. The switches support 12 QoS queues on every port, enabling them to maintain multilevel, end-to-end traffic prioritizations. The EX4300 also supports a wide range of policy options, including priority and weighted deficit round-robin (WDRR) queuing.
By providing 15.4 watts of Class 3 802.3af PoE on all ports to power voice over IP (VoIP) telephones, closed-circuit security cameras, wireless access points, and other IP-enabled devices, the EX4300 delivers a future-proofed solution for converging disparate networks onto a single IP infrastructure. The EX4300 switches also support standards-based 802.3at PoE+, which delivers up to 30 watts per port for powering networked devices such as multiple radio IEEE 802.11n wireless access points and video phones that may require more power than available with IEEE 802.3af. The EX4300 multigigabit switch supports pre-standard IEEE 802.3bt PoE++, which delivers up to 95 watts per port for powering devices requiring more than the 30 watts of power provided by PoE+.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol–Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED)-based granular PoE/PoE+ management allows the EX4300 to negotiate PoE/PoE+ usage down to a fraction of a watt on powered devices, enabling more efficient PoE utilization across the switch.
To ease deployment, the EX4300 supports the industry-standard LLDP and LLDP-MED, which enable the switches to automatically discover Ethernet-enabled devices, determine their power requirements, and assign virtual LAN (VLAN) parameters.
The EX4300 supports the IEEE 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) functionality, reducing power consumption of copper physical layers (PHY) during periods of low link utilization.
The EX4300 provides a full complement of port security features, including Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping, dynamic ARP inspection (DAI), IP source guard, and media access control (MAC) limiting (per port and per VLAN) to defend against internal and external spoofing, man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
EX4300 switches support IEEE 802.1AE MACsec, providing support for link-layer data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authentication. The MACsec feature enables the EX4300 to support 88 Gbps of near line-rate hardware-based traffic encryption on all GbE and 10GbE ports, including the base unit and optional uplink modules. The multigigabit EX4300 model supports the MACsec AES 256 standard for encrypting traffic on all access and uplink ports.
Defined by IEEE 802.1AE, MACsec provides secure, encrypted communication at the link layer that is capable of identifying and preventing threats from denial of service (DoS) and intrusion attacks, as well as man-in-the-middle, masquerading, passive wiretapping, and playback attacks launched from behind the firewall. When MACsec is deployed on switch ports, all traffic is encrypted on the wire but traffic inside the switch is not. This allows the switch to apply all network policies such as QoS, deep packet inspection, and sFlow to each packet without compromising the security of packets on the wire.
Hop-by-hop encryption enables MACsec to secure communications while maintaining network intelligence. In addition, Ethernet-based WAN networks can use MACsec to provide link security over long haul connections. MACsec is transparent to Layer 3 and higher layer protocols and is not limited to IP traffic; it works with any type of wired or wireless traffic carried over Ethernet links.
When employing Virtual Chassis technology, the EX4300 dramatically simplifies network management. Up to 10 interconnected EX4300 switches can be managed as a single device. Each Virtual Chassis group uses a single Junos OS image file and a single configuration file, reducing the overall number of units to monitor and manage. When Junos OS is upgraded on the primary switch in a Virtual Chassis configuration, the software is automatically upgraded on all other member switches at the same time.
The EX4300 also includes port profiles that allow network administrators to automatically configure ports with security, QoS, and other parameters based on the type of device connected to the port. Six preconfigured profiles are available, including default, desktop, desktop plus IP phone, wireless access point, routed uplink, and L2 uplink. Users can select from the existing profiles or create their own and apply them through the command line interface (CLI), Junos Web interface, or management system.
Juniper Flex licensing offers a common, simple, and flexible licensing model for EX Series access switches, enabling customers to purchase features based on their network and business needs.
Flex licensing is offered in Standard, Advanced, and Premium tiers. Standard tier features are available with the Junos OS image that ships with EX Series switches. Additional features can be unlocked with the purchase of a Flex Advanced or Flex Premium license.
The Flex Advanced and Premium licenses for the EX Series platforms are class based, determined by the number of access ports on the switch. Class 1 (C1) switches have 12 ports, Class 2 (C2) switches have 24 ports, and Class 3 (C3) switches have 32 or 48 ports.
The EX4300 switches support both subscription and perpetual Flex licenses. Subscription licenses are offered for three- and five-year terms. In addition to Junos features, the Flex Advanced and Premium subscription licenses include Juniper Mist Wired Assurance. Flex Advanced and Premium subscription licenses also allow portability across the same tier and class of switches, ensuring investment protection for the customer.
Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file
