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My thoughts on the new RB2011 (1 SFP, 5 10/100 ethernet, 5 gigabit ethernet, wallmount case)

#1 - If this could be used for a FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home) then why 10 Ethernet ports? At most, I could see using 3 Ethernet ports. One Ethernet port for in-house customer Internet data - a Second Ethernet port for a dedicated IP SIP network device - a Third Ethernet port for a Dedicated IP-TV network. Although with with the extra ports you would not need a hub-switch to connect up more customer IP devices.

#2 - Does this new RB2011 have alarm contacts for a UPS and other devices? A UPS would need at least 2 status contacts for UPS on AC power or battery, and a set of contacts for UPS failure. Other contacts could be battery voltage and door open. Note - as a CLEC or ILEC (telephone company) you must be able to operate on battery when the AC power goes out (federal law here in the US). So how do we know the status of the UPS (or remotely test the UPS)?

#3 - Do any of the Ethernet ports supply power to a Power-Over-Ethernet device such as a SIP line powered phone? If not - then we might need a second battery power supply UPS for SIP phones.

#4 - Can this work in a Fiber Active-Ethernet and/or a G-PON network? (note - a PON network is single uplink port using passive optical splitters to/from 4 clients to up to 64 client devices in the PON.)

#5 - Is the SFP port strictly 1-gig or does it support faster fiber modules?

#6 - In a FTTx (FTTH) network of dozens, hundreds or thousands of RB2011 units, what head-end equipment is supported (for Active-Ethernet and/or G-PON networks)? Is there any testing being done with any FTTH head-end products - or is this strictly a SOHO small network product?

#7 - When will this unit be available for testing? When will it be available by the thousands - and lead time? Is there any estimated pricing? I hope this product is not priced higher than other popular FTTx (FTTH) products.

#8 - Like other FTTH products - can this be available with a 10-year warranty?

We are starting to design/build a FTTH netowork which will start at around 5,000 devices. Our next phase will be an additional 18,000 devices. At this moment in time, I do not have any hardware decisioin locked in for head-end or client devices. How do we get information and when can we review the product and find out if the price is close to other FTTH devices.

Tom Jones - Coeur d'Alene Tribe (North Idaho)

#1 - lets start counting - so incoming optic - phone, tv, maybe other set-top-box. Wifi laptop/tablet/mobile, on internal 100/10 ethernets - stationary PC, DVD player, game console - as result customer has 1 device to rule them all

#2 it has USB port - so if you have UPS - connect it that way and set it up. In routeros 5 you will be able to read UPS information through SNMP, not only from CLI or API

and product is still in development.

#2 it has USB port - so if you have UPS - connect it that way and set it up. In routeros 5 you will be able to read UPS information through SNMP, not only from CLI or API
and product is still in development.

Hmmm, in all of the brand-name popular commercial FTTH products I have been looking at, all of the ONTs use UPS contacts. So, now we need a smart UPS with USB contacts for each FTTH customer -and- a re-write of the FTTH management software at the head-end to understand how to talk to the USB interface to get the status of the UPS.

I wonder what FTTx (FTTH) market this is designed for - SOHO ??? If this is for large scale deployments in the hundreds, thousands, tens-of-thousands then it just does not add up.

Without more information, I am only guessing if this is something I can use.

Any chance to support GEPON or GPON with ROS ?

Tom,

I Agree on the alarm contacts point.

As for Active vs Passive, this device is only really suitable for Active fibre deployments. As it is SFP based, this means 1gigabit modules. You could potentially use BIDI modules in it to get gigabit down a single fibre, or could use WDM modules at the headend with a multiplexer, then passive splits off to clients (but the cost would be high, you might as well just go Active BIDI for the ease of it)

For "head-end" equipment it depends on your deployment, e.g. straight L2/PPPoE, L3 or MPLS.

Since this product is still being developed, most of the above is based on the information available, and may change/be wrong

#2 it has USB port - so if you have UPS - connect it that way and set it up. In routeros 5 you will be able to read UPS information through SNMP, not only from CLI or API
and product is still in development.

Hmmm, in all of the brand-name popular commercial FTTH products I have been looking at, all of the ONTs use UPS contacts. So, now we need a smart UPS with USB contacts for each FTTH customer -and- a re-write of the FTTH management software at the head-end to understand how to talk to the USB interface to get the status of the UPS.

you only have to manage connection to RotuerOS, and add OID in your SNMP monitoring tool.

Any chance to support GEPON or GPON with ROS ?

Approximately how large will the rack mount unit be?

IE does it consume the entire horizontal space in the rack or could I fit 2 side by side with some kind of shelf accessory?

Any thoughts on having 2 SFP slots for redundancy?

Lots of FTTx deployments are using Ethernet OAM for fault finding and performance testing. Any plans to support that?

with quick look at the device - 2 placed side by side would be very close to filling up all horizontal space.

Any info on the CPU in this thing ?

I correct myself, the RB2011 will be able to be used on GEPON networks via the use of a GEPON ONU SFP module.

Hopefully it supports reading the DMI info (SFF-8472)... HINT HINT

I highly doubt any FTTH deployment in the world would allow you to plug this in to a GEPON network. GEPON is a fickle beast and vendors wont support a network where the endpoint node is a 3rd party unit. Atleast dont expect this in NZ nz_monkey

im not

Would be useful on small private PON deployments. Mikrotik just need a Cavium based device with modular expansion and SFP slots to act as an ONT/HeadEnd device...

So Mikrotik basically need a juniper?

Well as long as it's not a J series or SRX.

J Series are just plain terrible, and SRX are full of bugs. FYI an RB1200 is faster than a SRX240

MX is where the good stuff starts.

Can someone from MikroTik comment on whether there will be an official shelf accessory, with 2 drawers to mount 2x RB2011 side by side in the one rack unit?

Ideally you should also be able to mount a cable management bracket on either side like so: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers ... #wp1224842

So far there has been only one board, per case/shelf solution, and i think they will keep it this way.

I'm sure that there will be some MFM cases with this solution, if it will make sense.

SFP ports are a step in the right direction.. I need this today.. upgraded to a GigE port and our provider will only hand this off in optical format.... When do these ship??

Will it support MetaROUTER?

ether1 is PoE in or out?

Will it support MetaROUTER?

ether1 is PoE in or out?

this device doesn't have PoE out. Unless the device has a letter "P" (power out) in it's name, there is no PoE out.

@normis,


Any idea when these will be shipping ? Still waiting to get my hands on one with an SFP port.

Also very keen on these in terms of ETAs for shipping. 10 x Ethernet IMHO is too much though. I too, would personally rather prefer to settle for 1 or 2 x SFP, 5 x Gigabit, and perhaps (I know I'm pushing it), 4 x FXO...

Really cool device, I seriously hope they deliver - especially in the FTTx market.

hold on for an announcement very soon

any chance to make a version with poe out on both gigabit and 100mbps ports?

any chance to make a version with poe out on both gigabit and 100mbps ports?

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any chance to make a version with poe out on both gigabit and 100mbps ports?

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