Category: Hardware
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TheBrothersWISP 18 – GPON, GAON, AirFiber, New Mikrotik, New Ubiquiti, Mimosa
It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop. Some of the things discussed: GPON airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox! New Mimosa gear Observium monitoring tools Cacti monitoring tools…
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Broadband Communities Summit 2014 Austin, TX
I’m here at the BCS in Austin. It technically started Monday, but the meat and potatoes starts today and runs through tomorrow. I’m going to try and post some periodic updates about what I see/do. This summit is mostly about FTTX, what with 3 carriers offering FTTH here in Austin. I’m hoping to walk away…
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USA MUM 2013 New Products
Some of this might not be brand new, but it was new to me, so shut it. Sorry for the terrible pics…they were on my cell and the projector is pretty terrible. Groove52 2 or 5 ghz software selectable in single unit – SDR much? Shipping with omni antenna ccr1036-8g-2s+ 2 sfp+ 8 gig ether…
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Cisco Call Manager Express/Communications Manager Express, Cheap FXS/FXO Ports, and Asterisk Voicemail
Here’s the scenario. I’ve got a charter school that has an aaaaaaancient PBX kicking a PRI. Having the system updated is expensive and the PRI is even more expensive. We are going to roll a new PBX for them in about 8 months, and their PRI’s contract is coming up soon. This is a perfect…
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Avocent Cyclades ACS48 Console Server
I have an old Cisco device that has one port for an octal-cable. This gives you 8 console ports to other routers. Since I’ve been revamping my lab (AKA cleaning all the crap out of my room) I realized that I needed more console ports. I figured I would look on Ebay to see what…
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Mikrotik CCR Rumors
These are completely unfounded and unsubstantiated, so take them with a grain of salt. So the name of the device is the “Cloud Core Router”. When I hear cloud I first want to vomit and next I think of virtualization. I heard someone say that the CCR boots the Mikrotik ROS into a virtual machine.…
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Speaking Of Baboons…
I’ve made a new a new friend in South Africa named Wiehan. He could relate to the baboon issues…so much so that he shared some of his pictures with me 🙂 Click the pictures to enlarge! Razor wire and spikes! I should think this would do the trick for the curios passerby also…hehehe. Thanks for…