Nov. 3, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) today announced that the European Advanced Network Test Center (EANTC) has completed a commissioned performance verification of its Juniper Networks® MX80 3D Universal Edge Router and new 16 port 10GbE aggregation line card. This validation demonstrates the ground-breaking performance of the company’s 3D Scaling technology using the Junos Trio chipset.

The Junos Trio chipset is the first member of the Junos One family of processors that represents advanced integration of silicon and software, establishing new boundaries for high-performance networking. EANTC tested the Junos Trio-based products and verified the MX Series 3D routers breakthrough density, throughput performance and service scale, as well as feature richness and power efficiency.

“We are committed to objectively testing innovative networking solutions with the strictest methodology and were honored to be the first lab commissioned to evaluate these revolutionary solutions,” said Carsten Rossenhöevel, managing director at EANTC. “Our extensive analysis confirmed Juniper’s Junos Trio chipset is setting new standards for performance, services and scalability, while providing a significant improvement in power efficiency.”

The completed tests from EANTC confirm the performance metrics of the MX480 3D Universal Edge Router, including a validated up to 1.4Tbit/s, 240Gbits/s per slot unidirectional, with throughput able to exceed one billion packets per second, in a compact sixth of a rack configuration. Additionally, services scale displayed 6,000 active Layer 3 VPNs and 6,000 active VPLS instances, as well as a leading 25.34 watts per 10GbE and 3.38 watts per gigabit of throughput in full configuration.

“It’s very impressive that this level of testing by an independent party was conducted in advance of the product shipping,” said Eve Griliches, director of telecommunications equipment at IDC. “Typically, this can only be done when products have been deployed in the market over a period of time. The results are extremely impressive and provide external validation of the three dimensional scaling capabilities of the Junos Trio chipset.”

Junos Trio represents Juniper’s fourth generation of purpose-built silicon, and is the industry’s first “network instruction set” – a new silicon architecture unlike traditional application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and network processing units (NPUs). The new architecture leverages customized network instructions that are designed into silicon to maximize performance and functionality, while working closely with Junos software to ensure programmability of network resources.