Hopefully looking for a staffer to answer this one, but with the release of CRS226-24G-2S+RM, very keen to get these + the CCR1072-12S+ (which I believe is the reported format).
CCR1072 at the core with 10gbit uplinks to switching, all mikrotik, would be absolutely sweet.
I’m also keen to know if CRS ranges with only SFP/+ ports are expected to be released? Or is it not possible to get the SFP ports into switch chips?
I have a big fitout for a new ISP coming soon and I’d like to make it Mikrotik throughout but need all these devices available to do it!
The ones displayed at MUM Prague were “production” ones. whereas the black one previously was a prototype.
as far as i remember, Janis said they needed to change something in the hw, so they need to re-run, and after this they can announce the final price. not even the distributors have any insight on the price, nor on the ETA.
Unless there are hardware bugs, I think it would be worth to release the 1072.
We could already place it in future-proof installations. For example, now I am delaying several tasks waiting for the 1072.
It could be possible to install it anyway keeping in mind that it may not reach full performances until v7 will be available.
I would also say it would be ok for us if the 1072 was released with ROS 6 and have performance limitations. We are delaying builds where we would like to place 1072s to make it futureproof.
When I asked Janis about CCR1072 availability at the AU MUM, he reckoned it was 2-3 months away at most. That puts us in the July-August range if he turns out to be correct.
Apparently Mikrotik had to redesign the SFP+ interfaces because they found that older modules would not function properly in them (they apparently were originally designed to some newer standard that was a bit over-ambitious?).
Anyways, I’m just going off what I recall..
In other words, it’s not a ROS 6.x vs ROS 7.x thing. They will definitely release the CCR1072 on ROS 6.x without any problem.