Category: Hardware
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Rate Limit A Cisco 3560, 3570, 3560E Port
I sometimes use 3560Es as edge routers. This means that I no switchport the interfaces and put IPs on them to connect to customers. Here on the edge is where I rate-limit a user’s connection speed. On a 3550 this is pretty straight forward, but on a 3560, or a variation of it, this is…
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TheBrothersWISP Podcast # 2
Go visit the post here. Justin and JJ went to the Airmax conference in Chicago and they tell us about what they saw: Airfiber ToughSwitch Titanium antennas Aircams Unifi Pro Andrew shows us his Mikrotik RB2011L-IN
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MUM 2012 PL Update
A little more news. RB400 L series Simple and affordable miniPCI slot No serial Doesn’t replace RB400 Complements the series New Gigabit models Available now Metal 1.3 Watt output power Weatherproof Industrial design Durable metal case 5GHz 802.11a/n Completely sealed L4 AP license Available in April 48V to 24V PoE converter Convert all kinds of…
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Mikrotik Newsletter 37
Grab the PDF here. Hardware descriptions: – RB411GL – RB411UAHL – RB711-2HnD – RBPOE-CON-HP – RB2011L – RB2011L-IN – RBWMK – RBSXTG-5HnD
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Mikrotik CCR-1036 – Cloud Core Router
The first announcement that I’ve seen so far from the European MUM is the new CCR-1036. 36 core networking CPU 1.2Ghz per core 12MB on chip cache Hardware encryption 8 > mpps forwarding 15 > mpps fastpath forwarding. In general, the passage from the input interface directly to an output interface, through the fabric with…
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New Mikrotik RB2011L-IN and SXT G-5HnD
It seems like ages since we have seen new product announcements, but here are a couple. Sources of mine say the RB2011L-IN should be available within the next couple of weeks…and I plan to get one! RB2011L-IN 600Mhz AR9344(MIPS-BE) CPU 64MB RAM 5 gigabit ports 5 fast Ethernet ports 6 Watt power footprint PoE L4…
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Monitor Tape Drives With PLC And IR
We have tape rotation services for many customers here at the datacenter. One of them does tape rotation of a specific job that only two people can verify. These jobs happen to run over night which means these guys can’t verify when we need to swap the tapes. If you don’t change the tape out…