Hi.
I need to know if mikrotik has any routerboard that suports optical fiber and which one…
Or if routerOS supports optical interfaces on custom hardware (X86)…
Thanks…
There aren’t any RouterBOARDs with fiber ports right now (though one has been announced for a future release).
You can use fiber NICs in x86 systems. You can use any card that has a chipset supported in a stock Linux kernel. Intel cards are probably a good bet.
It would be great to see a 19" rack mounted version of something like the 1200 series with at least 2 fiber ports on it with small form-factor pluggable SFP/Mini-GBIC. 95% my work building is fiber optic( 90 % Multimode, 10% Singlemode) and it makes sense to me to see MikroTik to be bring a product like that to production.
http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/generic.pdf
have a look at RB2011
My router is mounted right next to my hp procurve switch that has SFP+ ports, so I just use a mini-gbic fiber transceiver and configure a vlan to a copper port and use the switch as a media converter.
anyone know of a fiber card for x86
maybe you can look at intel x520 card. Maybe other users that use SFP+ can suggest some card.