Re: [j-nsp] MX960 with two SCBEs and redundancy

2016-02-26 Thread Dave Bell
All ports will remain active, but the bandwidth that each PFE has available will drop by 50%. I believe on that card, there are 4 PFEs, each with around 78Gbps. If you don't need to use all ports, and you select the ones you use carefully, you will be able to lose an SCBE without dropping any perf

[j-nsp] MX960 with two SCBEs and redundancy

2016-02-26 Thread v
Hello, we would like to build a MX960 with two SCBEs and just two line cards (2x MPC-3D-16XGE-SFPP-R-B) for the beginning. What happens if one of the SCBEs fails in such a configuration? Will we still have full performance on all ports of our two line cards? Will the performance drop by 50%? O