The Routerboard 1000 does look like a hot new product. I'd like to learn more about it.
In the past we shyed away from Dell, we preferred Super Micro much more for ease to repair, reliabilty, and open standards. However, we are now using Dell for ease of procurement, in a one source ready to go package. The Dell 860 series starts at $750 for a PCI Express 1U version that supports "TWO" PCI-e or x bus slots, meaning you can put in two Intel 4port Giga cards for a total fo 10 ports, at Wirespeed!! I like the 860s because they are only 21.5" deep. The Dell 2U are also nice, but unfortunteately they are 29" deep, making it hard to fit them places without cables getting banged. Think about it, Mikrotik, MPLS, on a Dell 1U, now compare to Cisco MPLS enabled switch. As far as needing high memory and processing.... Sure 128mb is fine for a basic router. Even a typical Layer3 switch Cisco 3550s or SMC L3 switches only use about 8-32mb for 11,000 or more routes. But where the higher RAM is needed is when doing large routing tables. Nowadays for a BGP edge router, 512-1m is needed jsut for full routing tables. As well, with higher CPU cycles, it allows the system to be duplixcated for other purposes without slowing down wirespeed through the NICs. We showed there was a performance benefit of having over 2.4G processors, in our applications. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Motherboards and cases > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > >>I seen a new routerboard out with like a 1ghz processor, somewhere >>on the MT site. > > Routerboard 1000. It is around $1000 list, IIRC. Includes > 4 x 10/100/1000 ethernet ports and I think a level 6 license. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > *Butch Evans *Professional Network Consultation * > *Network Engineering *MikroTik RouterOS * > *573-276-2879 *ImageStream * > *http://www.butchevans.com/ *StarOS and MORE * > *Mikrotik Certified Consultant *Wired or Wireless Networks * > ******************************************************************** > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
