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

[Ben Dale]

Another example - take a box like the SRX100 - both the high and low memory versions have 1G of onboard memory (surface mount, no DIMMS), but the low mem version only has 512MB active with a license key unlocking the rest.  The exact same bit of tin - three quarters of the price.

I guess from the manufacturing side of things, there is one less model to have to spec and build which must save a small fortune.

I suspect manufacturing cost of almost any box these days is in the sub 5% of actual resale - the rest is all "value" ; )


On 13/04/2011, at 3:05 AM, joe mcguckin wrote:

> 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? 
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> On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
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>>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Derick Winkworth <dwinkworth at att.net>
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>>> 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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