Think for a second what this means about the manufacturing cost of a 10G port if they can literally give 2 away. And then think about the profit margin on said ports when Juniper sells them for what? 6k or 7k each?
Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications j...@via.net 650-207-0372 cell 650-213-1302 office 650-969-2124 fax On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Derick Winkworth <dwinkwo...@att.net> >> Sender: juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net >> >> Argh! Please tell me this is a joke! >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: David Ball <davidtb...@gmail.com> >> To: Juniper-Nsp <juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net> >> Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 9:46:45 AM >> Subject: [j-nsp] MX80 - restricted bundles and disabled 10G ports. >> >> A question almost too obvious to ask, but can someone with one of >> the restricted MX80 bundles (which disables 2 of the 10G ports) >> confirm that ports 0/0/0 and 0/0/1 are the ones left enabled? I don't >> have a restricted one yet, and am trying to finish a standards doc. >> Thanks....just trying to avoid assumptions here. <g> >> >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > Oh, it most certainly is a joke! A bad one. > > But that does not make it less real. Reminds me of 20 or 25 years ago > when Digital came out with a cheap micro-VAX system that was identical > to a much more expensive system with the exception of the epoxy with > which they filled the expansion slots. The cost of a replacement Q-Bus > backplane was far below the difference between the two systems, so guess > what everyone was doing! That joke turned out to be on DEC. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp