[j-nsp] Juniper box equivalent to GSR

[Erik Haagsman]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:18 -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
> > Our GSR as P will only run IGP and MPLS transport, it'll initially have 3
> > GigaE ports with NPE-G1, 4 ATM OC3 ports and a bunch of PoS for new PEs
> > we'll add later
> 
> With M7i there are only 4 PIC slots available... each ATM OC3 PIC has
> 2 ports and each GigE PIC has 1 port, there is a fixed GigE on the M7i
> board, so a router with 3 GigE ports and 4 ATM OC-3 ports won't have
> any PIC slot left. Could you change the router-switch connection to 1
> ATM OC-12 ?
> 
> Why exactly do you need 3 GigE ports ?

Or why not just go with an M10i...? Doubles your available PICs and is
still cheaper than an M40e, while providing the ability to use redundant
RE's as well...

Cheers,

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