Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

Most of the CCRs have 1 PSU, but two header power connectors, if you look at Faisal's links you can see what we mean. It really would be a simple product to produce. low input cost, probably could sell for $25/piece. It should have screw terminals labeled with input voltage allowed and pos

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

I have not really been following this thread. Give me some reference links so I can understand what it is you need. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 5:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling? Would be nice if they

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

The passively cooled CCR does already run directly off DC (it doesn't have an internal AC power supply, like the others)... some kind of screw terminals instead of the barrel connector would be nice, but it does work. On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Sounds

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

Sounds like more of a Brian Vargyas / Maxxwave project. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 6:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling? Would be nice if they made a module that would fit into existing AC Plug hole it could

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

Would be nice if they made a module that would fit into existing AC Plug hole it could have the primary and secondary terminals on it. Chuck? Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Faisal Imtiaz

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

FYI... http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=69422 http://shop.meconet.de/Hardware-component-parts/Accessories/DC-power-cable-for-MikroTik-CCR-CRS-25cm::116243.html?language=en :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I agree, Cogent does not want a PNI they want to sell you their transit and don't care what you do with it, at least that is my experience. What type of bandwidth levels did you have to get to with them to be able to do a PNI? Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone using the new Mikrotik CCR with passive cooling?

I am not a large WIsp but with 20 sites and more being added each year where I have a Mikrotik at every site plus additional Mikrotik switches to go at the larger sites. Maybe a small drop in the bucket but hey even if they had a module that would replace the power supply with terminals I

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I would also like to point out that very few networks on this list (I'm surprised you are) would have the scale to peer with Cogent. I ws referring to using BGP communities to limit one's Cogent transit to their customers only. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I understand PNI > public peering > transit. Until proven otherwise harmful, I'd shift everything one could over to no or low cost connections. IE: If you have peering with someone, only use not peering if the peering fails. With 75k routes, you ought to be moving more than 3% of your total

[AFMUG] VPN Appliance

I need a box. TV headend VLAN stream goes in. 1000 Mbps. Box encapsulates it and launches it on the public internet. At the far end, another box reverses the situation. Years ago I used Cisco PIX for this type of thing. Looking over pre-baked solutions I see lots of specs about number of

Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering

Yes, but it's their gear, not ours. We have no control over it, we just give them a list of IPs and gateways to use. On Jul 2, 2016 12:38 PM, "Paul Stewart" wrote: > That’s very interesting … so you have to decrypt the incoming feed to then > turn around an encrypt it to

Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering

That’s very interesting … so you have to decrypt the incoming feed to then turn around an encrypt it to your STB’s from your headend(s) ? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: July 2, 2016 11:19 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering Both

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Quite interested in hearing more about that… we are seeing very aggressive pricing from them that’s better than HE and others …. But not using them at this point. When a couple of contracts start to run out with some other transit providers we were considering looking at them although our

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Not sure what there is to take advantage of … we prefer peering always over transit. PNI higher than public peering – pretty standard stuff for a lot of networks…. 75k or so routes from them on-net of which about 35k are “best route” against other peered route options to their customers.

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa

It's Brad Day. Copied. Jeff Broadwick ConVergence Technologies, Inc. 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@converge-tech.com > On Jul 2, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Elle Wood > > firstn...@mimosa.co > > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Looking back at RFO from past 30 days one of the outages was a fiber cut in Texas, just FYI. Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Erich Kaiser wrote: > Yep they have

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Yep they have had a few hiccups, but overall very happy with them. As I said, "Every company is going to have some issue, but it seems like Cogent continuously gets a bad wrap." This is also why we try to offload most major content via peering exchanges instead of using transit provider to get

Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering

Both in the US, in our experience. With any of the content provider organizations (NTTC, etc). On Jul 2, 2016 7:13 AM, "Paul Stewart" wrote: > Oh... I may have been misunderstanding of where in the network you were > referring to then Chuck ... > > I was referring to the

Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

:) On Jul 2, 2016 7:35 AM, "Mike Hammett" wrote: > UBNT seems to have focus groups... and then do the opposite of what they > want. > > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > >

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

The number of large outages Telia has had in the US in the past few months is staggering. They are trying really hard to get business right now though, and their price reflects it. On Jul 2, 2016 8:40 AM, "Erich Kaiser" wrote: > I think all the negativity speaks for

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa

LOL That is what I think of every time her name comes up. Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Didn’t Reese Witherspoon play her in the movie? > > > *From:*

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa

Didn’t Reese Witherspoon play her in the movie? From: Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 8:36 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa Elle Wood firstn...@mimosa.co - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I think all the negativity speaks for itself LOL. When running my WISP, I had them for a year, and it sucked. The congestion in CHI was terrible. Now I am not sure that is a problem in CHI any longer, but that was my experience 3 years ago. On the Fusion network we use Telia as our primary

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa

Elle Wood firstn...@mimosa.co - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: ch...@wbmfg.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 5:45:56 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Mimosa Anyone know

Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

Maybe that’s the secret to “disruptive” marketing? Hold a focus group, then do the opposite? I do have to admit, back when I was in the telecom equipment business, customers often didn’t buy what they said they’d buy. They were good at describing their problems, but not so good at designing

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I think you need some BGP tweaks to better take advantage of Cogent, given the scale of their network. http://bgp.he.net/report/peers http://as-rank.caida.org/ http://research.dyn.com/2016/04/a-bakers-dozen-2015-edition/ - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest

Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

UBNT seems to have focus groups... and then do the opposite of what they want. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, July

Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

So mechanical robustness and weatherproofing are not important on every other connectorized radio they sell? That explanation sounds fishy. Seems like the sort of decision you get when you are catering to a specific key customer. Or listening to a focus group. Oh wait, that’s what we are.

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

That number of directly connected customers is dropping … we used to buy transit from them a number of years back – a lot of issues with routing in different regions, mainly in the US … then we dropped their transit and peered with them on PNI’s. The traffic (which is only their on-net traffic

Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering

Oh... I may have been misunderstanding of where in the network you were referring to then Chuck ... I was referring to the signal acquirement that feeds into the headend itself ;) I believe you are talking about once at the headend, delivering that signal to customers? -Original

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

I label them as the Heidi Fleiss of the industry.Everyone deals with them, but no one wants to admit it openly. They carry a fair amount of traffic on their network, both in the US and Canada (ip transit customers), and very often get into extended peering disputes with other networks.

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Thanks for the input guys, they have a screaming deal running right now, so I thought I'd ask. On Saturday, July 2, 2016, Peter Kranz wrote: > Cogent is great as long as you have another peer to balance out “issues”. > They have a shitload of the internet as directly

Re: [AFMUG] Cogent

Cogent is great as long as you have another peer to balance out “issues”. They have a shitload of the internet as directly connected customers. -PK From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 6:44 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG]