Everything about the Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch
January 23rd, 2012
Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch# is a terrific selection for enterprise level access switching.It’s famous for excellent speed and consistently delivers line-rate throughput with perhaps the heaviest number of net traffic. Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch reduces latency to minimum amounts, and that is especially crucial during time sensitive video or voice traffic. Efficiency is proven to be either at par or above present traditional enterprise routers. The device is actually a challenge to competing enterprise level switches.
The Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch comes with a impressive variety of features to make it easier for businesses to handle a network. It is possible to connect approximately 10 EX4200’s and manage them as one unit using the JUNOS operating system. This product supports IPv4, Secure Shell, SSL, syslog, telnet and Web that will all be switched on and off. IPv6 traffic routing is not yet supported (this will be addressed soon) even though you could have L2 switching within an IPv6 network.
One other reason to take into consideration the Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch# is its powerful, proprietary command line interface called JUNOS. The item is also simple to operate via the JUNOS CLI even though you may have a minimum of knowledge about the system and anyone who is familiar with Unix or Linux configuration may find it easier to adjust. For a virtual chassis, you might just upgrade the JUNOS software from the master switch and JUNOS is automatically enhanced inside the member switches.
This device uses the J-Web management app that is a device manager baked into the hardware allowing users to regulate, fix, maintain and monitor every different switch from the browser based interface. All fault, performance and system data from the Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch is exportable to common third party management systems like CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView for any consolidated view of operations inside a network. In terms of security Juniper, has always advocated Network Access Control (NAC) which provides them an authentication system packaged with the Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch. In addition, it contains a “storm control’ feature that limits the pace of very damaging traffic like “bot” attacks on random destinations although attacking specific servers is still possible. This device comes with a complete group of port security measures that includes Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) and MAC limiting that stops external/internal spoofing, Denial of Service (DoS) and Man in the middle strikes.
Juniper EX4200 24P Layer 3 Switch# is fully bundled with Junipers Unified Access Control (UAC) that consolidates the identity of each user and connected unit and their location. This gives an administrator to control access and security to each port and user level. It is also easy to make port profiles, to make sure you can modify the security, and other characteristics of every port according to the types of device you wish to hook up, or you could choose from six preconfigured ones.