[j-nsp] MX80 - restricted bundles and disabled 10G ports.

[joe mcguckin]

Think for a second what this means about the manufacturing cost of a 10G port if they can literally give 2 away. And then think about the profit margin
on said ports when Juniper sells them for what? 6k or 7k each? 


Joe McGuckin
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On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Derick Winkworth <dwinkworth at att.net>
>> Sender: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> 
>> Argh!  Please tell me this is a joke!  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Ball <davidtball at gmail.com>
>> To: Juniper-Nsp <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>> Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 9:46:45 AM
>> Subject: [j-nsp] MX80 - restricted bundles and disabled 10G ports.
>> 
>>  A question almost too obvious to ask, but can someone with one of
>> the restricted MX80 bundles (which disables 2 of the 10G ports)
>> confirm that ports 0/0/0 and 0/0/1 are the ones left enabled?  I don't
>> have a restricted one yet, and am trying to finish a standards doc.
>> Thanks....just trying to avoid assumptions here.  <g>
>> 
>> David
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> Oh, it most certainly is a joke! A bad one.
> 
> But that does not make it less real. Reminds me of 20 or 25 years ago
> when Digital came out with a cheap micro-VAX system that was identical
> to a much more expensive system with the exception of the epoxy with
> which they filled the expansion slots. The cost of a replacement Q-Bus
> backplane was far below the difference between the two systems, so guess
> what everyone was doing! That joke turned out to be on DEC.
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