Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[Jared Mauch]

> On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:42 PM, Shawn L via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> With the current shortages and lead times, I almost feel like I did back in 
> the beginning of my career --- 
>  
> Then it was "what can we do with what we can afford" now it's more like  
> "What can we do with what we have (or can actually get)"?

I’m definitely feeling a bit more of this - we are seeing quite a bit of 
mismatch as well in hardware where higher speeds are coming but without a firm 
consensus around optics.  At least for the 400G space it seems to be largely 
sorted, as DR, FR and LR are all interchangeable it’s largely that receiver 
sensitivity which comes into scope, and the LR8 being there, but unlikely to 
see a lot of volume over time.

Reminds me a lot of the DS3 vs OC3 vs gigE days of “what speed, how many”, but 
at least we have bundling figured out at this point.

- Jared