On 5/30/14, 10:32 AM, Eric Van Tol wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to clear something up that's been bothering me for > some time and that is the MPC1/MPC2/MPC3E actual bandwidth specs. I > know from various sources that the MPC1 has a single Trio chipset, > MPC2 has two Trio chipsets, and the MPC3E has a single enhanced Trio > chipset. > > The question I have is related to bandwidth. The Juniper MX Series > book says the MPC1 is 40Gb/s throughput, the MPC2 is 80Gb/s > throughput, and the MPC3E is 130Gb/s throughput. Are these numbers > in "full duplex" rates, ie. the MPC2 can only handle 4x10G ports > total before it is oversubscribed? Or is the total throughput on > each one really 80Gb/s, 160Gb/s, and 260Gb/s bi-directionally?
the bandwidth is symmetric... the forwarding lookup is only done on the ingress linecard. > Bonus question - what does the 'Enhanced' portion of the MPC1E/MPC2E > provide over the original non-E versions? larger microcode size which impacts the availability of some relatively esoteric features... > > Thanks, evt > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing > list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >
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