Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

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

I think the more common solution for something like that would be to use
one 100GbE port as a trunk on a MX204 or MX304 to a directly adjacent 1U
48-port SFP+ switch in a purely L2 role used as a port expander, with
dwdm/bidi/other unique types of SFP+ optics inserted in that.




On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 08:08, tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> > 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.