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Software Licenses for MX Series Routers and MPC Service Cards

MX Series Routers support subscription and perpetual licenses.

Go through the following tables:

Table 1: MX Series SKU Definition
SKU SKU Character Description

S-MXSPC3-A1/A2/A3/P1/P2/P3-1/3/5/P

S-MXSPC3-1/2-IPSEC-1/3/5/P

S—Software

MXSPC3— Product name: MXSPC3 line card

A1/A2/A3—Advanced 1 or advanced 2 or advanced 3 software features

P1/P2/P3—Premium 1 or premium 2 or premium 3 software features

1/2-IPSEC—Supported IPsec VPN features list

1/3/5—Subscription term 1 or 3 or 5 years

P—Perpetual license

Table 2: MX Series Routers Software Licenses

Features with Licenses

MX Series Routers

Use Case for Premium (includes Advanced features): Services

Scale: 32+IP VPNs and 8+multicast VPNs

Highscale IP-VPNs

Premium

IP fabrics (SRv6 and SRm6)

Premium

Inline NAT and inline MDI

Premium

1:1 inline J-Flow

Premium

Use Case for Advanced (includes Standard features): Transport

Scale: 32 IP VPNs – all address families and 8 next-generation MVPN

IP routing

Advanced

IGP (OSFP and IS-IS)

Advanced

IP-FRR

Advanced

PIM variants

Advanced

PWHT for Layer 3 VPNs or BNG

Advanced

IGMP

Advanced

Internet eBGP peering

Advanced

BGP multihoming (add path and multi-path)

Advanced

EPE

Advanced

BGP PIC

Advanced

BGP flow specification

Advanced

All Layer 2 services—E-LINE (Layer 2 VPNs, Layer 2 circuit, EVPN VPWS, EVPN FXC), E-LAN (bridging, H-VPLS, EVPN, and IRB), E-TREE (H-VPLS, EVPN, and IRB), Layer 2 multicast (snooping included)

Advanced

All MPLS transport—LDP, RSVP-TE, SR, SR-TE, and MPLS-FRR (including TI-LFA)

Advanced

IP fabrics (GRE, MPLSoUDP, VxLAN, and IPinIP)

Advanced

Streaming telemetry

Advanced

SNMP

Advanced

Policers

Advanced

ACLs

Advanced

J-Flow (sampled)

Advanced

sFlow

Advanced

Port mirroring

Advanced

VLAN queuing

Advanced

Timing (all variants)

Advanced

OAM—BFD

Advanced

Ethernet CFM or LFM

Advanced

MPLS or SR (ping and traceroute)

Advanced

Services OAM

Advanced

RPM

Advanced

TWAMP

Advanced

HQoS

Advanced

Logical Systems

Advanced

Use Case for Standard: Basic Layer 2 features

Bridging with port and single level VLAN (dot1Q)

Standard

LAG

Standard

The Junos Fusion Technology feature requires an additional license in addition to Advanced license.

The subscriber management (BNG or CUPS) feature requires an additional license in addition to Premium license.

Features that are not explicitly listed in Premium license are included in Advanced license, except for the following:

  • Junos Fusion Technology requires an additional license in addition to Advanced or Premium license.

  • Premium software tier is a prerequisite for running subscriber services (BNG (PL), BNG CUPS, MX Mobile User Plane (SAEGW-U, 5G AGF or UPF)).

Table 3: MX-SPC3 Software Licenses

Features with Licenses

MX-SPC3

Use Case for Premium 3: Advanced threat intelligence

DNS sinkhole, IDS, and URL filtering

Premium 3

Use Case for Premium 2: Service provider edge; Gi firewall for mobile operators; enterprise edge and data center

CGNAT, DNS sinkhole, IDS, stateful firewall, and URL filtering

Premium 2

Use Case for Premium 1: Enterprise data center and edge; service provider edge

CGNAT, DNS sinkhole, IDS, stateful firewall, and URL filtering

Premium 1

Use Case for Advanced 3: Advanced threat intelligence

Intrusion detection system (IDS)

Advanced 3

Use Case for Advanced 2: Advanced threat intelligence

Stateful firewall

Advanced 2

Use Case for Advanced 1: Enterprise data center and edge; service provider edge

Carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT)

Advanced 1

Use Case for Standard: Enterprise data center; service provider edge and data center

Traffic Load Balancer (TLB)

Standard

IPsec– Full card for Site-to-Site VPN, Dynamic Endpoint, and AutoVPN, use S-MXSPC3-2-IPSEC- 1/3/5/P.

IPsec– Half card for Site-to-Site VPN, Dynamic Endpoint, and AutoVPN, use S-MXSPC3-1-IPSEC- 1/3/5/P.

IPsec* – Group VPN, Intra HA, policy-based VPN, passive mode, IPsec tunnel trace route are not supported.

Table 4: MX Series Routers and MX-SPC3 License SKUs

MX Series Routers and MX-SPC3

Subscription

Perpetual

MX304

MX304-BASE/PREM

MX304-LMIC16-BASE

S-MX-1C/16C-A1/P1-C1-3/5/7/1*

MX304-BASE/PREM

MX304-LMIC16-BASE

S-MX-1C/16C-A1/P1-C1-P

MX204

MX204-HW-BASE

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-C1-3/5/7/1*

MX204-HW-BASE

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-C1-P

MX10K3-L2103

Supported on MX10003 device

MX10K3-L2103-BASE

S-MX-12C-A1/P1-C1-3/5/7/1*

MX10K3-L2103-BASE

S-MX-12C-A1/P1-C1-P

MPC5E

Supported on MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020

MPC5E/Q-40G10G/100G10G

S-MX-2C4-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MPC5E/Q-40G10G/100G10G

S-MX-2C4-A1/P1-P

MPC7E-10G

Supported on MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020

MPC7E-10G

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MPC7E-10G

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-P

MPC7E-MRATE

Supported on MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020

MPC7E-MRATE

S-MX-4C8-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MPC7E-MRATE

S-MX-4C8-A1/P1-P

MPC10E-10C

Supported on MX240, MX480, and MX960 devices

MPC10E-10C-P-BASE

S-MX-10C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MPC10E-10C-P-BASE

S-MX-1C/10C-A1/P1-P

MPC10E-15C

Supported on MX240, MX480, and MX960 devices

MPC10E-15C-P-BASE

S-MX-15C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MPC10E-15C-P-BASE

S-MX-15C-A1/P1-P

MX2K-MPC6E

Supported on MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020 devices

MX2K-MPC6E

S-MX-2C/2C4/4C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MX2K-MPC6E

S-MX-2C/2C4/4C-A1/P1-P

MX2K-MPC8E

Supported on MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020 devices

MX2K-MPC8E

S-MX-4C8/8C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MX2K-MPC8E

S-MX-4C8/8C-A1/P1-P

MX2K-MPC9E

Supported on MX2008, MX2010, and MX2020 devices

MX2K-MPC9E

S-MX-8C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MX2K-MPC9E

S-MX-8C-A1/P1-P

MX10K-LC2101

Supported on MX10004, MX10008, and MX10016 devices

MX10K-LC2101-BASE

S-MX-24C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MX10K-LC2101-BASE

S-MX-24C-A1/P1-P

MX10K-LC480

Supported on MX10004, MX10008, and MX10016

MX10K-LC480-BASE

S-MX-4C8-A1-3/5/7/1*

MX10K-LC480-BASE

S-MX-4C8-A1-P

MX10K-LC4800

Supported on MX10004 and MX10008

MX10K-LC4800-BASE

S-MX-48C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-D-3/5/7/1*

MX10K-LC4800-BASE

S-MX-48C-A1/P1-P

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-D-P

MX10K-LC9600

Supported on MX10004 and MX10008

MX10K-LC9600-BASE

S-MX-96C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-D-3/5/7/1*

MX10K-LC9600-BASE

S-MX-96C-A1/P1-P

S-MX-4C-A1/P1-D-P

MX2K-MPC11E

Supported on MX2010 and MX2020 devices

MX2K-MPC11E-BASE

S-MX-40C-A1/P1-3/5/7/1*

MX2K-MPC11E-BASE

S-MX-40C-A1/P1-P

MX-SPC3

MX-SPC3

S-MXSPC3-A1/A2/A3/P1/P2/P3-1/3/5

S-MXSPC3-1/2-IPSEC-1/3/5

MX-SPC3

S-MXSPC3-A1/A2/A3/P1/P2/P3-P

S-MXSPC3-1/2-IPSEC-P

*1 year subscription term is for renewal only.

MPC10E-10C and MPC10E-15C line cards are supported on MX240, MX480, and MX960 devices.

MX2K-MPC11E line cards are supported on MX2010 and MX2020 devices.

MX10K3-L2103 line card is supported on MX10003 device.

MX10K-LC2101, MX10K-LC480, MX10K-LC9600 line cards are supported on MX10004, MX10008, and MX10016 devices.

The show system macsec license command displays the total MACsec bandwidth used by the line cards.

The MACsec feature is supported on MX204, MX240, MX304, MX480, MX960, MX2008, MX2010, MX2020, MX10003, MX10004, MX10008, and MX10016 device. These licenses are perpetual.

The minimum number of MACsec bandwidth licenses installed must be greater than or equal to the configured bandwidth of MACsec enabled ports.

The MACsec feature licenses are available in the following variants:

  • S-MX-1C-MSEC-P - 100-Gigabit Ethernet MACsec bandwidth license

  • S-MX-4C-MSEC-P - 400-Gigabit Ethernet MACsec bandwidth license

  • S-MX-4C8-MSEC-P - 480-Gigabit Ethernet MACsec bandwidth license

  • There will be no alarms or syslog messages for the following line cards if the license is not installed. However, the MACsec bandwidth usage on these line cards will be tracked.

    • MX10K-LC2101

    • MPC5E-100G10G

    • MPC5EQ100G10G

    • MPC5E-40G10G

    • MPC5EQ-40G10G

    • MX2K-MPC6E

    • MPC7E-10G

    • MPC7E-MRATE

    • MX2K-MPC8E

    • MX2K-MPC9E

  • The following line cards require MACsec bandwidth license. Junos OS displays a warning when you commit the configuration and generates alarms, if the MACsec bandwidth license is not installed or the MACsec bandwidth usage is more than the installed value.

    • MPC10E-10C

    • MPC10E-15C

    • MX2K-MPC11E

    • MX10KM-LC9600-BASE

    • MX10KM-LC480-BASE