Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

Tue Jun 14 13:41:14 UTC 2022

So Juniper have gone ahead and announced the EoL of some key devices 
that, IMHO, are nowhere near past their prime:

     - MX204 (to be replaced by the MX304)
     - MX10003 (to be replaced by the MX304)
     - PTX1000 (to be replaced by the PTX10001)

Re: the PTX1000, I know it is a component issue that Juniper have 
mentioned is the reason for EoL'ing this. We bought a fair bit in the 
past 2 years, and technically, there is nothing wrong with them. We are 
going ahead with the PTX10001 as a replacement, because it works 
technically and otherwise.

Having both the MX10003 and MX304 in the same portfolio did not make any 
sense to me, and I did challenge Juniper on this over the past several 
weeks as to what their strategy for both platforms is. I guess we now 
have an answer :-\. Pity - we started buying the MX10003 last year, but 
I have no problem with the MX304 as long as the price continues to work.

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.

This chip shortage issue is, I think, being used as a crutch to take the 
p*ss.

Mark.
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