I’ve read hints on this board about new Routerboards - one a more powerful board that the 532 (this would be great), the other a Routerboard with wireless built in for a true cost effective CPE (the 112 plus a wireless card is still a bit pricey).
Any ideas from Mikrotik on when these might happen? My wisp is a hybrid of manufacturers now by economic and technical necessity. I would love to deploy more Mikrotik gear.
Thank you!
If I can make a plea - please keep the form factors the same, or at least mounting holes in the same places.
Those of us who have had custom enclosures designed for RB500 series have found that the less expensive, smaller boards do not fit, even though they could fit if mounting holes were in the right spots.
I’d hate to do yet another case redesign to accommodate the higher power routerboards we expect to see in 2007.
Could we get some response from Mikrotik about this?
I understand Mikrotik does not want to give away secrets - but some hint about more powerful routerboards in 2007 would be very helpful to customers. 3 months? 6 months? I need to know whether to wait for this product or seek alternatives. I would much rather use Mikrotik products if time will allow.
I read somewhere that there will be an announcement at the end of the month at MUM:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mikrotik-user-meeting-conference-in-poland-january-2007/9888/1
SMA
you can already get RB532’s that run ar 400Mhz …
a roadmap will be discussed at the MUM - in a few days in Poland.
These seem to have become available with little fanfare. So, what benefits result from the faster processing?
Can you now use 3 or 4 SR2’s or SR5’s with a daughterboard?
Are there any increases in throughput with the wireless interfaces?
Can you run NStreme on them without maxing out the processor?
Also, a change to a component in the RB532’s last year made them not work well with the Engenius EMP-8602 cards. The problem was going to be fixed in the next version of the board. Is it fixed with the 400Mhz version?
Are all the new RB532’s 400Mhz capable, or will there be different versions?
CPU MHz does not influence to the wireless card usage opportunities.
Current RB500 power consumption is 14W, you can calculate how many wireless cards RB500 will handle.
2)3) Troughput depends on different options.
As far as I know the following problem is related to specific model design.
I rather doubt a 532a running at 400 mHz will seem much different from one at 330 mHz. Sure, there will be some speed bounce - but the not the significant difference a different processor and more RAM could deliver.
Have the new Routerboards been announced at MUM yet? If so, can someone post what the news is?
Thank you.
Somebody must know something by now…
Poland — Current local time: 7:23 PM on Friday, January 26
According to http://www.google.com
Jan 26, Friday
09:00 “Managing Hotspot users with the new User Manager”, by Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik (Latvia)
09:30 “The evolution of a network”, by Peter Cartwright, Loop Scorpio Limited (UK)
10:15 “New Obvious and Obscure Mikrotik RouterOS v3.0 features”, by Janis Megis and Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik (Latvia)
11:00 “The Magic of IP Flow”, by Valens Riyadi, Citraweb (Indonesia)
11:45 “Network monitoring verification using network planning and coverage prediction software with Dude.” - Tomasz Reczek & Marcin Szulc, ARTS-Net (Poland)
12:30 Lunch
01:45 “VLAN configuration in a wireless environment” by Mason Ham and Paul Eriksson, Roamingwire (USA)
02:30 “MikroTik RouterBOARD Hardware roadmap”, by Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik
03:15 “All about MikroTik consultants, opportunities, practices, training program partnerships for resellers and what to expect”, by Arnis Riekstins, CTO of MikroTik (Latvia)
04:00 Win Prizes: RAFFLE!
Yea, spill the beans already! We’re all waiting impatiently…
SMA
anyone 
?
There will be for example RB1000 with CPU 4x faster than RB532 and 30W power consumption and a little smaller RB600. Planned 2 or 3 q of 2007.
ok, at least the anticipation has subsided. And any news on something like the LS 2 or LS 5 that normis kept hinting at?
Any comments on cost of the 600 and 1000, number of ether ports, memory, etc?
yea i would love some more details..or some tech specs. everything im reading so far sounds VERY nice!
tks
LOL, so we sit and wait some more?
4x faster would mean what? 266mhz x 4 = 1000mhz
Maybe it’s 333*4 or 1.3khz. That would be sweet!!!
Can someone post what was actually announced at MUM? I presume it is public info after the announcement - it seems we have guessed enough here.
I’m looking forward to learning both what the more powerful and lower cost routerboards will be, and when I can buy them for my customers.
Mikrotik, can you post this now?
Particularly when not all MT customers are at MUM. It gets a little irritating getting the mushroom treatment over a topic as important as this one.
I fully expected MT would make a public announcement in parallel with their MUM presentation.
George
Maybe all they have is the road map! LOL
JJ