40G QSFP+ to 4 SFP+ on MX960

Mark Tees marktees at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 00:03:40 UTC 2022


Any idea if Juniper will support that on MX?

On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 03:35, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:59 AM Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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>> On 2/25/22 09:04, Saku Ytti wrote:
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>> Then you went too far. For many users the 40G port is there to increase
>> 10G density, by offering 4x10GE breakout. It is already difficult to
>> support 1GE customers and 10GE is starting to become problematic. But SP
>> networks actually have these customers, and not every application on the
>> Internet will always need more and more capacity, so many of these
>> customers have no requirement to ever purchase faster ports.
>>
>> If you live in cloudyworld, sure, denser and faster. But this mode of
>> thinking is making life at SP networks rather difficult.
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>> 100%.
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>> New boxes from Juniper that have shipped with a minimum of 10Gbps when we
>> still have 1Gbps use-cases has meant we've put orders off. 12 months later,
>> they have new iterations of the boxes now allowing for all the way down to
>> 1Gbps.
>>
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> Check out the Adva MicroMux Nano for this use case if you haven't already.
> 10x 1g in a single 10g transceiver using a 24S MPO. They also have a 10x
> 10g in a single QSFP28 as well.
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>> CloudyWorld is giving OEM's the impression that NetworkWorld also have
>> the same requirements. It's good to see some OEM's are getting back to
>> their roots, but it's not easy work.
>>
>> DWDM vendors are the worst, because they look at all orders with DCI eye
>> glasses.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
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