MUM News ??

RouterOS General
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Any news yet from Prague?

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yesss, the last presentation just finished =)

now here’s lottery =)

3

What? No reporters there?

Perhaps “No news is good news” but for those of us that couldn’t be there, no news is boring.

Please tell.

Tom

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you’ll see mum presentations on the wiki soon, but now wait =) guys are very tired after a week of training and mum

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so 700 people are too tired to report any cool new thing they heard or saw?

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how much of these 700 know about the forum and use it?

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There wasn’t much in the way of new things - just an announcement that USB on RBs will be more prevalent and that the new model (plastic cased RB450 look-a-like) will be about USD50.

IMHO, the highlight of the conference was Janis Megis’s queues/QoS
/priorities workshop and hosting of the BoF session. That made the whole trip worthwhile.

I’ll write more about each of the talks as and when I get a chance to pull my thoughts together. However, in the main they were very good and useful (or if not useful for me, interesting). There were a few where the presenter was too nervous, but more later…!

Nick,

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I took the Advanced Routing class from Janis Megis at MUM USA in Chicago last May. I like him. He made the class interesting and knows ROS and networking very well.

It sounds like there wasn't much news at this MUM. I certainly hope there is more TBA at the next USA MUM (still not on the schedule but should be somewhere in USA in May 2009).


The following is what I was hoping to hear about from MUM...

I was expecting to hear more news on the RB450G. Such as benchmarks.

I was expecting to hear about new features and applications for ROS. Remember when they announced the RB433AH with lots of RAM and microSD and said new applications would be announced in the future.

I was expecting to see a released RB433AH with USB ports.

I was expecting to hear a release date for 802.11n.

I was expecting to hear about a roadmap for new products like the $50 cheap router, faster routers with Gig-ethernet, I would love to see a RB433 in the RB133 form factor, and I want to hear about multicore CPU stability.

Tom

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Any details on BoF sessions - some new ideas/solution?
BTW presentations are becoming available one-by-one at:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/MUM_2009_CZ

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I can only speak for the QoS/Priorities/Shaping BoF which was the one I went to.

The one thing which came out of it (apart from the fact that it is possible to share 1Mbit/s between 200 users - you had to be there) was that it is impossible to de-prioritise P2P.

The upshot was that rather than try to de-prioritise P2P, we should be looking to prioritise known traffic. In addition, we should run all web traffic through a proxy which should stop any P2P programs running on port 80.

Nick.