JUNIPER ROUTER

M40 was the first product by Juniper Networks, which was released in 1998. [6] The M40 was the first of its kind capable of scaling to meet the internet standards ,which can move 40 million packets per second with a throughput rate in excess of 40 gigabits per second. [13] With the initial offering of m40, Juniper came up with the Internet Processor I. The proprietary ASIC was the fundamental core of Juniper's Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE). The PFE consisted of a shared memory, a single forwarding table, and a one-write, one-read architecture.The entire PFE was capable of forwarding at 40 Mpps, a capacity more than 100 times faster than that of any other available router architectures at that time. [6] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] The M40 is one of the first routers on this scale, about 10 times faster than Cisco's 12000. [23]