[j-nsp] DPC or MPC with MX480

[Vladislav A. VASILEV]

Thanks everyone for the thoughts!

NG mVPN is supported on the Trio based line cards.

Regards,
Vladislav A. VASILEV

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:35, <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

> > > I am in process of procuring new hardware and I've got a question. If
> you
> > > were to go for MX480 would you order it with MPCs or DPCs. Also if your
> > > network were to have MX80s as well which are Trio based would that
> > > influence
> > > the decision on choosing either MPCs or DPCs for the MX480s?
> > >
> > >
> > I'd say you should buy DPCs only if you really need any features, that
> MPC
> > does not support (yet :). NG mVPN or something like (be sure you really
> need
> > it now). But if you also have MX80s in the network, this can mean you
> won't
> > run anything Trio does not support. Though this really depends on the
> role
> > of the boxes.
>
> Another point to consider is the Hardware End of Life Announcement for
> various DPCs, e.g.
>
> PSN-2011-07-314 Hardware End of Life Announcement - DPCE-R-Q-40GE-SFP,
> DPCE-R-Q-4XGE-XFP,  DPCE-X-20GE-2XGE, and DPCE-R-2XGE-XFP
> PSN-2011-07-315 Hardware End of Life Announcement - DPCE-X-40GE-TX
>
> It seems rather obvious that Juniper wants to guide customers towards
> MPC/MIC.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>