The FTC (Fiber to copper converter) would be a super great product if …
if it supported some type of an ATA SIP device (PCI SIP card) so that an IP-Phone connection could be made to a regular POTS analog phone.
if it supported a battery backup device - such as the type used in fiber-to-the-home. Telco phone companies are required to support 8 hours of battery run time.
if it supported GPON (and could talk to an ADTRAN TA-5000)
if it had more than one Ethernet port
if it had a 2nd PCI slot for a wireless card
possible power from POE and/or support a POE device also (802.3af).
and have a case where 25 to 100 feet of fiber slack-loop could be coiled up inside the case.
A product that supports my above wish list - should be able to be mounted indoors or outdoors.
If it supported the above, I would be getting quotes for thousands of them …
If all the features required by you are implemented it would not be a simple device as it is now. In this case beauty of the product is in the lack of features instead of the overabundance of them.
But thank you for your input. We will consider them for future products.
I can understand your statement. The Mikrotik products are great for what they are right now.
However, for many of us, I would like to ask a question so that we (I) can make some long term planning on hardware.
A) Is there a product design for a Mikrotik Fiber-To-The-Home using GPON and the GPON standards?
B) A product that supports SIP (VoIP) which then can be used to connect 1 or 2 standard analog telephones.
C) A product which supports communicating to a battery backup system to provide at least 8 hours of batter run time.
In my new network, I am using ADTRAN TA5000s for the GPON head ends and a Metaswitch (phone soft switch) to provide SIP services to a network I am building to support several thousands of customers. We still plan on keeping our WISP network, but the GPON network will allow me to supply up to 100 to 1gig of internet service on top of customers watching IP-TV and making telephone calls at the same time. I would love to see a Mikrotik product in this market. I suspect these new features could be mostly additional software packages. I suspect if you had a good GPON product, that it could outsell all other Mikrotik products by itself.