Category: Hardware
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Houston DC Update 1
I’ve gotten some of the site done…which means I have to head back to H-town next week to finish. Here are a few pics of the work done. In this DC you can see that we do a LOT of prepatching. The idea is that just about anyone can plug in the patch cables to…
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Mikrotik Newsletter 32
The PDF can be found here. Omnitik The omnitik is now going to be released. It is a cute little mimo omni outdoor radio, but also has a 5 ethernet ports. The only downside(and only an opininon) is that it is an A/N radio. I would like to see a B/G version. I would love…
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Mikrotik Newsletter #31
The PDF can be found here. This is one pretty light…they are really just pimping a couple of the new products: The Grove5Hn($69) and the Grove A-5Hn($89). The specs are: 400 Mhz Atheros 32MB of RAM for the standard and 64MB for the A version 64MB of flash n 5GHz 802.11a/n 1×1 MIMO with N-male…
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POE Passthrough For Tower Climbers
For those of you that are a “one man show” like myself, you will often find that you need to be on the tower and align an antenna at the same time. This generally requires you to log into the antenna while still on the tower…which can be difficult if your antenna is PoE(power over…
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Cisco – Troubleshoot POS Interface
Troubleshooting a POS(Packet Over Sonet) interface is quite different than your standard ethernet interface. The first thing you will obviously do is a: show interface POS1/0/0 If you are down/down then you obviously aren’t seeing light across the link and you need to troubleshoot accordingly. If you see the link as up/down, then you are…
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Proper Power Planning And Usage
Working in a datacenter power delivery is a big part of what we do. We get regular questions on the subject, and I had a comment from Andrew recently that pushed me to write this post. Our datacenter provides true A/B power…and what does that mean? What it boils down to is we hand you…
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Web Power Switch III
Digital Loggers, Inc. sells the Web Power Switch III. So this little guy has 10 outlets and 8 of which are controllable. You can log into it’s web interface and selectively power on or off ports. You can setup multiple user accounts that have access to only specific ports. It has an auto ping setup…