Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[Brian <brian.bsi () gmail com>]

> From Juniper...........

"you are correct that there isn’t a native 10G SFP+ form factor offered
with the 304.



QSA adapters are qualified (say for example, Nvidia), and from there it can
support native 10G Bidi, WDM, etc. The economics per-port, obviously, get a
little expensive with this approach if a lot of native 10G is needed and
breakout isn’t an option.



Thanks!"



Oh and also I just got the call, Juniper is forcing a Price Hike in July.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 9:10 AM tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> > The MX204 is pure shocker! Unless the MX304 will come with a
> > license-based approach to run at MX204 pricing, that is Juniper shooting
> > themselves in the foot.
>
> Unless I'm missing a trick, the MX304 doesn't have an answer to installing
> DWDM, bidi, or other fancy optics in the SPF+ ports on the MX204.  QSFP+
> breakout to 4 x 10G is supported, but only 4 x vanilla 1310 optics - you'll
> need an external OEO solution if you want fancy 10G options.
>
> It otherwise seems a nice box on paper, although substantially more
> expensive than the MX204.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.