[j-nsp] MX240 SCBE2 10G ports

[Michael Loftis]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:43:43AM -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
>> I suggest you bring this up with your Juniper sales rep :)
>>
>> Juniper is very much driven by customer feedback.
>
> I wonder if these ports are connected to a PFE, or if they are
> direct-to-RE ports.  If the latter, they may never be usable as
> revenue ports but they might make it easier for Juniper to implement
> external routing engines or distributed/clustering technologies like
> the TX Matrix Plus with the Line Card Chassis.  This is just a guess.

I personally would actually bet that's what it was/is for.  Linking
the chassis internal network that carries the management.  It's
probably hanging off the management switching system on the fabric
cards, not on the fabric itself.