Are there plans to release junior CCR based on Tile-Gx9 with 1-2Gb DDR3 and price sub 300$?
Presence of 2SFP and 5-8Gbit ports would be great!!!
Deleted because not related.
I am interested only if it’s a small desktop fanless unit which fits in a 1U drawer.
It should have 12 gigabit ports, as provided by the chip, but arranged in 2 rows one on top of the other to make the unit narrower.
The 2 SFP slots are acceptable if Mikrotik also offers inexpensive 10GBaseT modules, otherwise I would prefer 2 10GBaseT ports.
It should have a replaceable simultaneous dual band wireless card.
The USB should be normal size, and be hopefully usable as console port.
It should have a touchscreen and a memory card slot.
By the end of 2013, lots of things can happen. Still 9 months to go.
Some fanless power budget for PoE+ ports would be more than welcome.
If the power supply could be integrated while keeping the desktop unit relatively small, then it could be just delivered with removable rack ears, to cover both use cases with one model.
External power supplies are the scourge of home computing, anyway.
Putting the LEDs in the ports also helps making the unit smaller.
+1 Lights in ports
+1 Stacked ports
802.3af/at POE out would be fantastic, having a compact device with 8 switched POE ports and a couple of “uplinks” would be an awesome branch router product. Something like a Cisco 1861, e.g. 8 POE ports and a couple of uplinks (maybe 2 copper, 2 SFP) in a desktop case (with optional rack mounting kit)
It would be OK for me if the 10G performance were only switched, I would put the gateway on one gigabit port of the 12.
Assuming it will be possible to route 224.0.0.0/24 between subnets, so that I don’t have to put all the LAN in one firewalled bridge.
Hmm, if I understand well, not even the Gx36 has the I/O needed for what I want.
I see why the new SFP+ CCR was spec’ed like it is.
I guess if it has to limited to one model, 10G-2S is the best compromise.
But there should be inexpensive GBASE-T SFP modules available then.
I would probably prefer it to 12G because “you never know”.
I think if MikroTik wants to offer a rackmount Gx9 they can just build it any day.
The real job is partitioning the software, and they already have enough work to do.