> It seems these are oversubscribed to the backplane. 8×100G + 2×400G > is 1.6 Tbit/s, and 12×100G + 3×400G is 2.4 Tbit/s, but all three of > MX240, MX480 and MX960 are listed as having 1.5 Tbit/s max per slot. > (And is that 1.5 Tbit/s in *and* out, or is that just 750 Gbit/s per > direction?) As I understand it, when a 400G port is enabled, 3 of the 100G ports are made un-available (not sure whether there is an option for sub-rate on the 400G port keeping more of the 100G ports available), hence there will be a limit of 1.5 Tbps per slot with no over-subscription. It is actually a 15x100G card... each group of 5 ports can enable one of its ports as 400G, thereby disabling three of its other 100G ports... there is 500Gbps of capacity per port group = available as 5 x 100G, or 1 x 400G + 1 x 100G.
The card with less capacity (ie. 2 groups of 5 ports, rather than 3 groups of 5 ports) just reduces the electronics and thereby the power consumption by 1/3. I hope this helps Tim. Tim Rayner Optical Engineer, AARNet Pty Ltd street address: Building 9, Banks Street, YARRALUMLA ACT 2600 postal address: GPO Box 1559, CANBERRA ACT 2601 t. +61 2 6222 3575 f. +61 2 6222 3535 e. [email protected] w. www.aarnet.edu.au _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
