On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't like when people create their cable plant to match what GPON needs. > It's done because of the illusion that long-haul fiber is expensive. It > isn't, if you have to dig anyway. The difference in cost of a 12 fiber > cable, and a 1000 fiber cable, isn't huge compared to the digging costs. > Splicing a 1000 fiber cable isn't huge either. Point-to-point fiber cabling > is the way to go. If you then decide to light it up using PON of some kind, > fine, that's up to you, at least you have the flexibility to change > technology in the future. > >> and several costs there have dropped significantly, routerboard is >> making a SFP+ capable >> 5 port switch for like 50 dollars > > > URL? Nick weaver (of ICSI) just turned me onto them - http://www.cloudrouterswitches.com/RB260GS.asp?gclid=Cj0KEQjw7b-gBRC45uLY_avSrdgBEiQAD3Olx8_iFXJ_xKjZInc2T54XEu5VyMsTe42Rla3GTRKrkwwaAu2M8P8HAQ He also steered me to a nifty port mirroring POE passthrough device: http://www.dual-comm.com/gigabit_port-mirroring-LAN_switch.htm Haven't tried either yet, personally. It turns out that both he and I are using the nearly same model nucs for load testing, with a standard 2.5inch sata 3 slot, and 2 mini pcie slots for a half length and full length wifi device. "The D54250WYK1, which is a dual core, dual thread/core i5 based with 16 GB Ram and a 120 GB SSD). The only disadvantage is it doesn't include the "Vpro" lights out management suite present in the 3rd gen model." I am using the i3 versions. I'd written up a review of the one without the 2.5 inch slot here: http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~cero2/nuc-to-puck/results.html and later upgraded to the one with the slot, as sata is faster than msata, and the best wifi (atheros ath9k and ath10k) cards are all full length). These have e1000e cards in them, which support BQL under linux 3.6 and later, and although the (i3 at least) can't drive gigE to saturation without TSO, they have been quite nice and quite quiet so far, and have been giving solid results. They are a really good desktop, too, under linux, and mounting them on the back of the monitor (or, as I do, on a pegboard), is helpful too. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] -- Dave Täht https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
