The EX8200 line of modular Ethernet switches is a family of high-performance, highly available platforms for use in high-density 10GbE data centers, campus aggregations and core networks.

Two EX8200 chassis options are available:

- The EX8208 Ethernet Switch solution has eight dedicated slots in a 14 rack-unit (RU) chassis, delivering up to 320 Gbps per slot and wire-rate forwarding performance of 960 million packets per second for packets of any size.
- The EX8216 Ethernet Switch solution includes 16 dedicated line-card slots in a 21 RU chassis and features a switch fabric that delivers 1.92 billion packets per second forwarding.

Both EX8200 Ethernet switches use the same line cards, which offer a variety of 10/100/1000BASE-T, 100BASE-FX/1000BASE-X and 10GbE interfaces. Fully configured, a single EX8208 Ethernet Switch can support 384 GbE or 64 10GbE ports at wire speed, or 320 10GbE ports in shared bandwidth applications, while a fully configured EX8216 Ethernet Switch can support twice that number, offering one of the industry's highest 10GbE port densities.

Up to three EX8208 Ethernet switches or two EX8216 Ethernet switches can fit in a single 42-unit rack, delivering an unprecedented 256 wire-speed or 1,280 shared-bandwidth 10GbE ports per rack.

The EX8200 Ethernet Switches also support Juniper's unique Virtual Chassis technology, which enables up to four interconnected switches to operate as a single, logical device. Deployed as a collapsed aggregation or core layer solution, an EX8200 Virtual Chassis configuration creates a network fabric for interconnecting access switches, routers, and service-layer devices using standards-based Ethernet LAGs.