Re: 40G QSFP+ to 4 SFP+ on MX960

[Mark Tees <marktees () gmail com>]

Any idea if Juniper will support that on MX?

On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 03:35, Michael Still <stillwaxin () gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:59 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
>
> > On 2/25/22 09:04, Saku Ytti wrote:
> >
> >
> > Then you went too far. For many users the 40G port is there to increase
> > 10G density, by offering 4x10GE breakout. It is already difficult to
> > support 1GE customers and 10GE is starting to become problematic. But SP
> > networks actually have these customers, and not every application on the
> > Internet will always need more and more capacity, so many of these
> > customers have no requirement to ever purchase faster ports.
> >
> > If you live in cloudyworld, sure, denser and faster. But this mode of
> > thinking is making life at SP networks rather difficult.
> >
> >
> > 100%.
> >
> > New boxes from Juniper that have shipped with a minimum of 10Gbps when we
> > still have 1Gbps use-cases has meant we've put orders off. 12 months later,
> > they have new iterations of the boxes now allowing for all the way down to
> > 1Gbps.
> Check out the Adva MicroMux Nano for this use case if you haven't already.
> 10x 1g in a single 10g transceiver using a 24S MPO. They also have a 10x
> 10g in a single QSFP28 as well.
>
>
> > CloudyWorld is giving OEM's the impression that NetworkWorld also have
> > the same requirements. It's good to see some OEM's are getting back to
> > their roots, but it's not easy work.
> >
> > DWDM vendors are the worst, because they look at all orders with DCI eye
> > glasses.
> >
> > Mark.
>
>
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M Tees