This is not covid issue, these parts were EOLd before anyone knew what covid is.
I don't know yet exactly what went wrong, and may not ever know as that information may not be available to even many at JNPR. On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 19:10, JASON BOTHE via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saw this coming a mile away. With chips and technology progressing despite > ability to manufacture, I’m certain many are going to do this. > > > On Jun 14, 2022, at 11:53, Raymond Burkholder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2022-06-14 09:46, Saku Ytti wrote: > >> These EOLd are HMC devices, Micron EOLd HMC back in 2018, no one else made > >> them. > >> MX304 is a very different device than MX80, MX104, MX204. Previously > >> these were single chip very BOM optimised devices. MX304 has YT on > >> each card, which also means half of the YT capacity is spent on > >> fabric. Whereas MX80, MX104 connect ports on fabric and wan side, > >> getting 200% bps compared to fabric model. > >> Of course BOM isn't a meaningful contributor to what customers generally > >> pay. > > Holy acronym soup batman! > > > > Could you help me with HMC, BOM, YT? > > > > BOM means to me BillOfMaterials, but I'm not sure I have that correct. -- ++ytti
