Anyone know of any alternatives to the Ciena 5170 Service Aggregation Switch? I am looking for something that has 4 100g ports for metro ethernet in a 1/2u form factor.
I just heard from a Juniper sales person about the ACX5448 (code name ACX5k+ or ACX+ or something like that) and about (4) 100 gig ports... also, about another ACX5k variant that may have 25 gig (25 gig is something the linux server engineer I work with has been talking about in his next datacenter server refresh)....
The presentation I saw listed the two, 5448 and ACX+ as different products. 5448 listed as Committed while the ACX+ was listed as Under Planning. They were also shown to be targeted at different markets, 1G/10G with 100G and 10G/25G/100G.
We are dropping these into our Metro network for pure layer 2 aggregation and 100 Gbs port density ... 32 100 Gig ports on single rack unit. Does support 4x 25 and 2x 50 on each interface https://www.extremenetworks.com/product/x870-series/
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Preso I just looked at shows a spec for one of those boxes as having what appears to be break-out capability of the 100 gig interfaces to be (10's, 25's and 40's)... wondering if that would be true of those 100 gig ports on the ACX5448 as well ? if not, why not?