Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

Tue Jun 14 16:06:08 UTC 2022

Saw this coming a mile away. With chips and technology progressing despite ability to manufacture, I’m certain many are going to do this. 

> On Jun 14, 2022, at 11:53, Raymond Burkholder <ray at oneunified.net> wrote:
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> 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.