[j-nsp] Ramp up old MX480

[john doe]

Thank you for all answers!

Is there any licenses required for MPC-3D-16XGE-SFPP, or is the "reduced
scale L3" only a gentlemen agreement?

Johan


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:27 PM Tobias Heister <lists at tobias-heister.de>
wrote:

> On 28.08.2019 17:10, Brian Johnson wrote:
> > Do you know if you have the enhanced mid-plane? If not, it’s a chassis
> upgrade to install MPC3 or better line cards.
>
> There is no need to upgrade the chassis even with old midplane. The worst
> you get is performance impact on MPC4/5E on SCBE2 or MPC10E on SCBE2/3.
> All MPCs will work on old midplane (some with reduced capacity)
>
> MPC7E and the already proposed 16 Port 10GE MPC (technically a quad MPC2
> trio cramped into one card) work fine on the old mid-plane.
>
> You will loose support for some linecards when upgrading fabrics (e.g. no
> DPC from SCBE2 onward, and no MPC1/2E(non NG) from SCBE3 onward)
>
> If you only need some 10GE Ports you could just use the 16 Port 10GE Cards
> with the existing SCB and deactivate/use 8 of the ports. The cards are
> probably cheap enough on the second hand market to justify it.
> If you can get used SCBEs you can go up to 12 Ports (1+1 fabrics) or 16
> Ports (2+0 fabrics) if memory serves well.
>
> For new cards cheapest per port price typically comes from MPC7E ... but
> overall costs depend on target number of 10GEs.
> Cooling/Filter and Power supplies will need upgrading as already mentioned
> from others.
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Tobias Heister
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