> I'm speccing out a replacement for our aging M10i platform. We're pulling > about 3.5Gbps in from our transit providers and sending about 0.5 out. I > expect to see this increase to around 10 inbound in the short-term and > possibly go to 20 over the next couple of years. > > I'm looking at the MX80 platform, specifically the model that has 48 > electrical GigE ports baked in as opposed to taking MICs. However I've been > told that this version doesn't have ASICs and does all of its forwarding in > software.
You've been told wrong. The MX80, just like other MXes is all hardware forwarding. The "fixed" chassis version of the MX80 is missing one chip which does per-VLAN/hierarchical queueing. But it still does forwarding in hardware. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
