Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

Look at the population of 100G ports at the SIX in Seattle as well. I think
there's a total of maybe four 40G members out of hundreds. 100G really is
the new 10.

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 10:56 PM Daniel Marks via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> (Enterprise AS for context)
>
> This hasn’t been my experience in the US, however we mostly deal in tier 2
> markets (I.e. Detroit, Miami, Dallas, etc…) and we have plenty of 40G
> private interconnects. I don’t doubt 40G is going away, I’ve just never had
> trouble using it around here.
>
> The only time we’ve been asked to run something other than 40G was because
> we like to run our ports very hot (latency insensitive traffic) and some
> networks do not tolerate consistently high utilization of their ports.
>
> Different story in Japan, it’s 100G+ or nothing. You just have to find
> someone willing to peer with you in the first place…
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 27, 2023, at 23:43, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
>
> 
>
> On 8/28/23 03:05, Mike Hammett wrote:
>
> Well, or they simply found a potential deal on hardware that came with 40
> gig ports. 40 gigs is still a lot of bits to a lot of people.
>
>
> For internal use, sure.
>
> But when connecting to another AS, the chances of them supporting 40Gbps
> in one or more places is inconsistent to slim.
>
> Exchange points may be an exception.
>
> Mark.