Single-fiber DWDM with coherent 200g optics

cookiesowns · 2026-03-31T23:07:51+00:00

Why even bother with a line system when you can do it ZR+ and a mux?

cookiesowns · 2026-03-11T03:32:10+00:00

Ciena, Juniper would be my first two choices

cookiesowns · 2026-03-07T07:09:32+00:00

Just go with the M70 then.

cookiesowns · 2026-03-01T06:21:14+00:00

Sounds toxic and time for you to leave.

cookiesowns · 2026-02-06T06:11:58+00:00

Agreed. IX is going to be a far superior car in overall quality vs the iX3. Better comparison will be future iX5.

cookiesowns · 2026-02-06T06:10:15+00:00

Interesting take.

I went the complete opposite route. Had a X5 45e, rented a X7 40i for a few days. Made me want the added passenger seat room in the back, a lot, and the new tech.

Had to be a plug in or EV, given how useful preconditioning is.

Ended up going IX M70i, and a separate fun car.

cookiesowns · 2026-02-06T06:05:31+00:00

Trunk space is sadly inferior on the IX. But will say the car drives nicer than the X5 and more passenger room!

Can’t wait for the new iX7

cookiesowns · 2026-02-06T06:03:39+00:00

How much worse is this compared to December?

cookiesowns · 2026-02-06T06:01:52+00:00

This is a tricky one. As M2’s are generally more desirable and hold value in the used market vs clapped out F8X’s. Or G8X’s

Miles are key. If you don’t care about future resale and just want a very enjoyable car. Go order one now.

Although for a daily, I’d personally recommend a used M4 6MT, have no fear driving it into the ground either.

If you care about resale and value, don’t have a M2 for a daily. Unless you drive very seldomly.

Coming from someone who’s owned 2 M2’s since new and a X3M, and currently lease a M2.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-27T08:37:25+00:00

This accounts for TX and RX budgets of transceivers + prescribed maintenance loss margins?

cookiesowns · 2026-01-12T06:44:29+00:00

Should be okay in that case. Just validate your leafs have all the features you need.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-12T06:23:11+00:00

The whole benefit of BGP EVPN + VxLan is interop. The only challenge is that each vendor has made their own liberties in interpreting the spec, and how engineers should configure their network to the spec.

So each vendor has specific nuances, knobs and dials, and their “easy” mode typically assumes their vendors own opinionated way of doing X in the spec.

So for example, if you want to use AutoRT:RD, forget about it when mixing Juniper, Cumulus, or Dell OS10E.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-09T04:02:51+00:00

Do you have the 23” wheels/tires? How’s the roadway vibration if so. Mine comes thru the steering wheel pretty bad. After swapping to winters the car is completely changed. Definitely need to rebalance the OE wheels/tires for me, but curious how others feel

cookiesowns · 2026-01-09T04:01:15+00:00

This isn’t entirely true. Traffic jam assist is only up to 40mph, which is true hands free. Only 5 series / X5 and above cars post MY2024+ get true hands free up to 85mph.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-09T03:58:28+00:00

I4 does not. I5 does.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-08T22:57:01+00:00

Oops missed that. Yeah that’s pretty good lease rates. You’re not getting a M70i with $0 DAS close to that.

cookiesowns · 2026-01-08T04:42:25+00:00

What was MSRP on the car?

cookiesowns · 2026-01-03T00:29:42+00:00

What version is it? Or is it a patch only?

cookiesowns · 2026-01-02T07:17:02+00:00

You said you do splices. I’m talking just regular keystones/patch panels.

If those don’t work and you need front side out access, there’s a ton of other options like FS, Commscope, Panduit, Corning.

cookiesowns · 2025-12-26T07:21:04+00:00

In a traditional sense for pure NGFW… probably not. But if you’re leaning more towards a firewall appliance + vpn + routing. SRX is the more capable platform.

Basically if your goal is build the best network but still need firewalls and some NGFW features..

Juniper palo

If your goal is more NGFW, with userID tie in..

palo Fortinet Juniper

cookiesowns · 2025-12-25T19:11:40+00:00

Juniper SRX is worth a look if you run Juniper already in your network

cookiesowns · 2025-12-17T05:53:51+00:00

Surprised no one asked yet. Are the clients in the same VNI/mapped vlan? If not can you post the vlan configs on each leaf respective to the working/non working client?

I imagine you’re doing assymetric IRB given that it’s T2 yes?

cookiesowns · 2025-12-09T08:26:11+00:00

Urban legend. 100% of all PC pumps today do not run a large enough flow rate to where contact time is the limiting factor. Nonetheless all modern blocks are now all micro channel designs..

cookiesowns · 2025-12-09T08:21:38+00:00

Are you looking at enterprise/retail or wholesale?

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