[j-nsp] high 10GE port density in EX switch?

[Michel de Nostredame]

Hi There~

One of my customers has some Cisco Nexus 7K but budget wise prevents
him from buying N7K in new locations. His environment is pretty simple
and straight forward. Lots of 10GE ports (around 2200 ports) divide
into around 30+ VLANs. Then uplink to two MX routers (the border) and
go to Internet.

Previous setups were using N5K as L2 access switch and aggregate to
N7K as core L3 switch, then multiple 10GE L3 uplinks to MX480. The N7K
is doing VLAN routing and lots (total 3+ thousand lines) of ACL.

The QFX total solution looks pretty interesting, but does not have too
significant price difference compares to Nexus solution.

Will Juniper ship new switch fabric on EX 8000 series to support
line-rate high port density 10GE? (for example, 40 port line rate 10GE
per slot.)


Thanks,
--
Michel~