Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[JASON BOTHE via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Saw this coming a mile away. With chips and technology progressing despite ability to manufacture, I’m certain many are 
going to do this. 

> On Jun 14, 2022, at 11:53, Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net> wrote:
>
> On 2022-06-14 09:46, Saku Ytti wrote:
> > These EOLd are HMC devices, Micron EOLd HMC back in 2018, no one else made them.
> > MX304 is a very different device than MX80, MX104, MX204. Previously
> > these were single chip very BOM optimised devices. MX304 has YT on
> > each card, which also means half of the YT capacity is spent on
> > fabric. Whereas MX80, MX104 connect ports on fabric and wan side,
> > getting 200% bps compared to fabric model.
> > Of course BOM isn't a meaningful contributor to what customers generally pay.
> Holy acronym soup batman!
>
> Could you help me with HMC, BOM, YT?
>
> BOM means to me BillOfMaterials, but I'm not sure I have that correct.