Rack rails on network equipment

Sat Sep 25 21:08:53 UTC 2021

On 9/25/21 13:55, Baldur Norddahl wrote:

> My personal itch is how new equipment seems to have even worse boot time 
> than previous generations. I am currently installing juniper acx710 and 
> while they are nice, they also make me wait 15 minutes to boot. This is 
> a tremendous waste of time during installation. I can not leave the site 
> without verification and typically I also have some tasks to do after boot.
> 
> Besides if you have a crash or power interruption, the customers are not 
> happy to wait additionally 15 minutes to get online again.

Switches in particular have a lot of ASICs that need to be loaded on 
boot. This takes time and they're really not optimized for speed on a 
process that occurs once.

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