Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>]

This is not covid issue, these parts were EOLd before anyone knew what
covid is.

I don't know yet exactly what went wrong, and may not ever know as
that information may not be available to even many at JNPR.

On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 19:10, JASON BOTHE via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
> 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.



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