Well, or they simply found a potential deal on hardware that came with 40 gig ports. 40 gigs is still a lot of bits to a lot of people.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Tinka" <mark@tinka.africa> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2023 10:59:36 PM Subject: Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup On 8/27/23 04:52, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > I sincerely doubt there is much demand for *new* 40G these days. > > Look at the population of 40G members on major IXes. > > People have either one 10G, 2 x 10G, or 100G. > > 40G was a dead-end 9 years ago and much so more now. We have customers that sometimes ask for 40Gbps interconnects. I always tell our Pre-Sales team that those are the ones who "led the way", back in the day. Sadly, they were a bit too early :-). Mark.
