Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

Tue Jun 14 15:53:02 UTC 2022

On 2022-06-14 09:46, Saku Ytti wrote:
> These EOLd are HMC devices, Micron EOLd HMC back in 2018, no one else 
> made them.
> MX304 is a very different device than MX80, MX104, MX204. Previously
> these were single chip very BOM optimised devices. MX304 has YT on
> each card, which also means half of the YT capacity is spent on
> fabric. Whereas MX80, MX104 connect ports on fabric and wan side,
> getting 200% bps compared to fabric model.
> Of course BOM isn't a meaningful contributor to what customers generally pay.
Holy acronym soup batman!

Could you help me with HMC, BOM, YT?

BOM means to me BillOfMaterials, but I'm not sure I have that correct.