Category: Hardware
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Tilera / Mikrotik Press Release
Thanks to Andrew, this is old news…how he finds all this stuff I’ll never know 😉 EDIT, thanks for the proper link Normands! It appears as if there is an official press release from Tilera talking about how the Mikrotik CCR is using their 36 core chips. They confirm a couple of things: Mikrotik is…
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What Could Be More Simple Than Replacing A 6509 Supervisor…?
Noting…unless of course you are me 🙂 Here’s the situation. We are doing user aggregation on a 6509 chassis. Due to cost considerations, we only put a single Sup in. We had a power supply failure which subsiquently killed the super…don’t ask me how, but it did. I quickly threw in a redundant sup720 I…
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RB2011LS-IN – AKA Mikrotik With SFP
I received my 2011 and I’ve only done some preliminary testing. First impressions are positive. The unit is attractive, slim and feels solid. Just as a recap it has: 600MHz mipsbe CPU 64MB RAM 5 FastEthernet 5 Gigabit 1 SFP slot 6W power consumption Again, these have the power cord built into the unit…seems somewhat…
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Micro-ATS Single Device ATS
In the data center world we see the demand for dual power feeds (true A/B connections) everyday. Some equipment only has a single PSU, though…what is one to do? You employ an automatic transfer switch or ATS. This is a device that will switch between multiple power sources automatically in case a single feed fails.…
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Mikrotik RB951-2n
This is the 750 formfactor but has built in B/G/N wireless. 300MHz CPU 1.5dBi 3W power draw 32MB RAM B/G/N wireless MSRP of $45 I’ll personally be buying and using these pretty extensively…depending how good the reception is. I’ve no doubt you guys will be doing the same 🙂
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Mikrotik RB2011LS-IN And SEXTANTG
RB2011LS-IN 1 SFP slot 600Mhz CPU 5 Gig ports 5 FastE ports 6W power pull 64MB RAM This is the first routerboard that has fiber ports. These are going to make cool little POP routers or tower base routers. How interested are you guys in this RB? Who is dying to get one of these?…
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Fiber Skinny Fingers
We have a lot of fiber LIUs with a lot of patches. We mostly use LC connectors these days and we tend to densely pack these guys in. This works great…usually. Once it is time to head back in and pull somehting out of the middle or insert a new patch in the middle, you…