[j-nsp] Going Juniper

[Mark Tinka]

On 11/Apr/18 11:51, James Bensley wrote:

> I had heard (more or less from the horses mouth) that the MX104's were
> initially developed for an Indian telco - they basically wanted MX80s
> but with a higher temperature rating and dual REs, allowing them to be
> used in mobile base station sites. These would be hard to reach so
> they needed reliability (dual REs) and sometimes "external" (as in not
> in an air-cooled DC but maybe a roof-top cabinet etc.). Upgraded REs
> would have been great. I have seen some that run with low CPU
> "normally" but when they are being polled by SNMP they spike to 100%.

If I had a penny for every time a new box was developed for mobile
backhaul...

Mark.