> I couldn't agree more. Funnily enough when I saw the EX2200C-12 get > released being both fanless and shallow depth the first use case I > thought was ME NTU/Small PoP. Front-mounted power would have been > nice, but hey, I'll deal. There are enough dot1q-tunnelling knobs > built-in* for most applications, and aggregating this back to an MX > somewhere would make this a pretty solid design. Port ERPS down to the > 22xx code (once Juniper get it sub 50ms) and this would kick ass. I've > seen a couple of MX80s sitting in basements where there is little or > no air-con, and I can't imagine them being long for this world. > *Having to pay more than the price of the switch to activate EFL to > use Q-in-Q does dampen the idea somewhat though. Well, don't get me wrong. MPLS in the access is a lovely thing and I really understand what Mark from Juniper. Moreover I personally hate all the plain ethernet garbages in the access (people tend to insert more tiers on the way from access switch to the MX-like router because they can't connect every basement to an aggregation point and it just breaks the whole idea of access network).
I just wanted to note, that from the money point of view at the time when MX80 was under construction, it /could/ be a wise decision to not compete against products like CES/CER and make it more router-alike than a MetroE optimized device. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp