[j-nsp] Cheaper way to have 2x100G and 16x10G wire-speed in MX480

Joe Horton jhorton at juniper.net
Sat Sep 26 14:05:23 EDT 2015


You actually don’t need the newer backplane chassis for the SCBE2.  On the original backplane chassis there is a slight reduction of available bandwidth compared to the newer one, but it is still much higher than SCBE and worth the upgrade to support newer modules even without a chassis swap.

Joe




On 9/26/15, 11:37 AM, "juniper-nsp on behalf of Michael Loftis" <juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:

>Depending on your chassis you may be able to upgrade to SCBE2 - but
>that requires *all* MPC cards AND requires a newer style backplane
>(part number is escaping me at the moment) and of course with the MPC4
>will require high capacity fans.  Assuming you meet all of those
>hardware prereqs MPC4 based cards can hit that.  SCBE is 160G/slot,
>SCBE2 is 360G/slot.
>
>But cheap, and 100G or cheap and 40G and full scale routing....they're
>kind of mutually exclusive right now.  The PTX platform may have
>better price points for this role too.  I suggest you talk to your
>Juniper sales rep.
>
>On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Robert Hass <robhass at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> What is cheapest way to choose proper MPC/MICs to have 2x100G and 16x10G
>> all wire-speed plus possibility to extend my configuration to total 32x10G
>> and 4x100G ?
>>
>> Is it possible to have 200Gbps (400G in both directions) per slot in cast
>> of malfunction of one fabric card ?
>>
>> What you can suggest ?
>>
>> Rob
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