[j-nsp] juniper router reccomendations

[Saku Ytti]

On 29 July 2016 at 06:08, Anhost <jjones at danrj.com> wrote:
> Those boxes have no fabric to connect to which makes it appear to double the bw. The onboard 10G ports are the connections that would otherwise go to the scb's.

The MICs are the ones which are on 'fabric side'. The rationale is
easy. WAN side has 4*XFP PHY, fabric side does not have. To connect
anything in fabric side you'll need IX chips. Hence 4x10GE MIC could
never work in MX80/MX104, because it relies on MQ's WAN side PHYs.

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