[j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710 - Update!

[Shamen Snyder]

The Juniper Bolan architecture is suppose to have an AC variant.

 Hardened (-40C to 65C), compact (445m x 221mm x 250mm) form factor –
suitable for cabinets in pre-aggregation network layer
• 2 Routing Engine slots, 1:1 redundant control and forwarding/switching
plane
• 320Gb/s and 2.4 Tb/s RP Variants; Full FIB with 2.4Tb/s RP – 1.5M FIB
• Flexibility of 7 (DC versions) or 6 (AC versions) line card slots
• 8x1GE/10GE
• 8 x 10/25GE
• 2x40GE/100GE
• 4x40/100GE (C-Temp)

I haven’t been following it much, but may be worth poking your SE on.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:43 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:

> So an update on this thread...
>
> Juniper went ahead and made the ACX710 a DC-only box. So if you are an
> AC house, you're in deep doo-doo (which is us).
>
> DC, for large scale deployment in the Metro? Makes zero sense to me.
>
> Apparently, no way around this; which, to me, smells of the box being
> built for some larger operator (like mobile), who primarily have DC
> plants. And that's it - no other options for anyone else.
>
> Oh, these vendors...
>
> I haven't yet seen an ACX710 outside of a PDF, but deep scouring on the
> Internet led me to this:
>
>
>
> https://portal.nca.org.gh/search_type_approval_view_details.php?typeApproveDetailID=2244
>
> Some kind of type approval with National Communications Authority of Ghana.
>
> Mark.
>
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