[j-nsp] MX104 with full BGP table problems

[Eugeniu Patrascu]

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Friday, May 16, 2014 09:20:50 PM Saku Ytti wrote:
>
> > bill-of-material, pincount, thermal might be argument,
> > they are SOC so you get everything nicely in single
> > package.
>
> I know Juniper are not thinking of anything more powerful in
> the MX104 due to thermal budget, but alluded to the fact
> that this could change as more powerful CPU's require lower
> thermal budgets, due to the fact that the RE's on the MX104
> are modular.
>

You can cool a Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPU in a laptop at +40C degrees in direct
sunlight outside (e.g. Panasonic Thoughbook) and they can't cool the same
type of CPU in a datacenter with ~20-22 degrees ambient temperature and
very powerful fans that are present in a router? I doubt it that the Xeon
versions of those CPUs produce much more heat. Factor in the fact that they
can go all SSD and you can have a very small package that can act as a RE
(think of a very mini mini version of Intel NUC).

There has to be another reason for the crappy REs in these routers.