The RB750UP has 4 powered ports that you can control (although depending
on throughput it can be underpowered for even a four port tower).
Another option in addition to the SiteMonitor products already mentioned
would be a digital loggers POE injector like the POE24 midspan POE which
has port control via a web interface.
Ubiquiti also makes the Toughswitch and Toughswitch Pro which provide
individual port control but you are stuck in a switch configuration at
that point.
On 12/25/2013 09:02 AM, Paul McCall wrote:
I have been scouring the Routerboard.com site in search of a solution. We have
some towers that feed several other towers using Mikrotik or UBNT as backhauls
between the towers. Right now, if one of the BHs becomes unresponsive (which
has happened to both TIk and UBNT gear lately), the only option currently at my
disposal is to use the Sitemonitor relay to drop power from the batter bank to
the fuse block, which of course power cycles everything except the site monitor
itself.
We have a few towers with two 9 port tiks (some with 3 Tiks) and all the
combined radios attached. Power cycling all of them seems reckless. Once in a
while something else doesn't come back. Sometimes it's the primary Tik that
has the sitemonitor plugged into.
I was hoping that I could find a Tik router that had all the ports available to do
POE-Out as well, so that I could control the radios individually. Apparently, this
doesn't exist. Each of these towers (5 main "distribution towers) has an
upgrade scheduled to the RB1000AHx2 but this doesn't have that function.
All of the tower backhaul legs are OSPF to they need the individual path to
the interface for OSPF.
I suppose that if I had some "other" device that sat in between the TIK and the
BH radios that did POE-Out, that I could run all the BHs into it, then an additional
cable to each port on the TIk. That's kind of a kludge.
Maybe there is some other good solution ?
;)
Paul McCall, Pres.
PDMNet / Florida Broadband
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
772-564-6800 office
772-473-0352 cell
www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/>
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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