Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[Martijn Schmidt via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

ADVA recently launched a QSFP+ transceiver with bidi support on each of its 4x10G breakout lanes: 
https://www.adva.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/20220308-adva-launches-new-bidi-pluggable-to-minimize-cost-and-latency-in-access-networks

As for 10G DWDM optics, it's not a very efficient way to use your ports, but you could hypothetically use a QSFP+ to 
SFP+ adapter like this one if you truly needed to run some in your MX304 chassis: 
https://www.flexoptix.net/en/transceiver/q-pct.html

Best regards,
Martijn

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+martijnschmidt=i3d.net () nanog org> on behalf of tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org>
Sent: 14 June 2022 17:07
To: nanog () nanog org <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: RE: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

> 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.