Thank you for all answers! Is there any licenses required for MPC-3D-16XGE-SFPP, or is the "reduced scale L3" only a gentlemen agreement?
Johan On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:27 PM Tobias Heister <li...@tobias-heister.de> wrote: > On 28.08.2019 17:10, Brian Johnson wrote: > > Do you know if you have the enhanced mid-plane? If not, it’s a chassis > upgrade to install MPC3 or better line cards. > > There is no need to upgrade the chassis even with old midplane. The worst > you get is performance impact on MPC4/5E on SCBE2 or MPC10E on SCBE2/3. > All MPCs will work on old midplane (some with reduced capacity) > > MPC7E and the already proposed 16 Port 10GE MPC (technically a quad MPC2 > trio cramped into one card) work fine on the old mid-plane. > > You will loose support for some linecards when upgrading fabrics (e.g. no > DPC from SCBE2 onward, and no MPC1/2E(non NG) from SCBE3 onward) > > If you only need some 10GE Ports you could just use the 16 Port 10GE Cards > with the existing SCB and deactivate/use 8 of the ports. The cards are > probably cheap enough on the second hand market to justify it. > If you can get used SCBEs you can go up to 12 Ports (1+1 fabrics) or 16 > Ports (2+0 fabrics) if memory serves well. > > For new cards cheapest per port price typically comes from MPC7E ... but > overall costs depend on target number of 10GEs. > Cooling/Filter and Power supplies will need upgrading as already mentioned > from others. > > -- > Kind Regards > Tobias Heister > _______________________________________________ > 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