Hi Guy,
sorry to correct you but itīs the other way around:
The 4 port quad wide GE (I-4GE-SX) is only available on the M20/M40
because it comes as a FPC with fixed GE-interfaces and you canīt
extract the FPC on a M5/M10 that easily without a chainsaw or similar ;)
Cheers,
/Rene
< Sorry folks, I made a slight mistake in that the 4 port quad wide GE
< SX card is only available for the M5/M10 and not for the M20/M40.
<
< Regards,
<
< Guy
<
< > -----Original Message-----
< > From: Niels Bakker [mailto:niels=juniper-nsp@bakker.net]
< > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:03 AM
< > To: Andy Harding
< > Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
< > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Cisco equivilant to an M5?
< >
< >
< > * andyh@verio.net (Andy Harding) [Thu 06 Dec 2001, 23:15 CET]:
< > >> The M5 can be stuffed with 48 of them you'll still be able to
< > >> run them all at full capacity.
< > > this card over-subscribes the backplane - juniper themselves
< > > readily admit this
< > >
< > > you can't run all these ports full-rate
< >
< > Good point. I should've done the math myself, too...
< >
< > Are they making a two-port GigE PIC yet? Those are handy in
< > redundant setups, where you use either one of them at any time.
< > Doesn't seem like
< > it - my employer at that time going bankrupt probably didn't
< > add to the
< > credibility of the request. :-)
< >
< > Cheers,
< >
< >
< > -- Niels.
-- / Rene Avi <Rene.Avi@KPNQwest.com> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax 533 \ \ KPNQwest Senior Network Engineer | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
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