[j-nsp] Ramp up old MX480

[Richard McGovern]

Reduced scale is currently honor based.  Please note that in the future, Juniper is very likely to put in SW hooks to make licenses actually active, and no longer honor based.  This is likely to be across the whole product portfolio.

Rich

Richard McGovern
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On 8/29/19, 5:40 AM, "john doe" <johan.borch at gmail.com> wrote:

    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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