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A MX204 is not a switch, it's a router.
What are you wanting?
Francisco
I think he means that the core switches will be used with an MX204 as the main router, not sure why he specified it
The relatively cheap option is QFX5100-24Q Switch with 2x QFX-EM-4Q for 32x QSFP ports. I am hearing good feedback for fs.com switches, but no personal experience yet. You might be able to find something with 100G uplinks to benefit truly from the MX204.
Edit:
And there's always Arista.
I mean the Arista DCS-7050QX-32 is cheap if just wanting QSFP 40G ports.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394186143436
But if doing routing off of it. Then I would say go with something newer.
Probably will need 100G uplinks
Depends on your actual capacity needs.
A popular setup with the MX204's is to have the 4x100G links passed down to another switch that's acting as a 'port expander'. You can then have your switches/etc plug into there.
We do that in all DC's at this point and it works very well.
Francisco
Need around 60 - 100G uplink to be expanded and having around 20 - 30 racks. What do you suggest? Something on cheaper side would be good.
No.
A Cisco 9364C is a nice unit, we have one. You're still going to pay $9k - $10k for it.
Francisco
Any cheaper core switch? like 100G Arista?
Arista is like $12k+ for their 100G switches.
The network hardware market is still pretty broken cost wise. Those units are 3x - 4x higher than they were pre 'rona.
Francisco
Qfx5200