Very hopeful to get an official Mikrotik response about hardware planning.
Guys, we really need new ARM revisions of good old models such as hex poe, powerbox pro, hex s. Nowadays gigabit isn’t enough for interconnection\uplinks, therefore 5009 is a good model BUT there is no PoE passthrough, only poe-out with DC jack inserted which ruins the whole point. I get it’s hard to deliver power to a new CPU and at the same leave power for poe-out, but comon.
There are locations with lack of wiring and daisy-chained poe devices is the best way to go, but not when you have to put another UPS and PSU in the middle.
Even l009 cannot deliver poe-out without PSU and it’s really low-power device after all, how so?
Is it technically possible and are you planning to make new revisions with 2.5 gbit ports, sfp+ cages all poe-out ports etc?
For example new hex poe\powerbox pro with ARM 1-2-4 core CPU, marvell switch chip supporting vlan filtering offload, poe-in (standard 48V) to ether1 and poe-out to at least 2 ports? And maybe 10 Gbit SFP cage or at least 2.5 gbit. Currently 1 gbit uplink isn’t enough and CPU power of 1 mips core as well not enough for vlan filtering. CPU drained with 300-400 mbit traffic passing through. Have to use crutches and offload to chip, but sfp port isnt on chip, so have to bridge it and CPU capped at 800-900 mbit DL and 300-400 DL anyway.
New hex s with 2.5\10 gbit sfp cage, one or all 2.5 gbit ports and one poe-out port would be great too.
And please put better thermal pads on 5009, they’re leaking bad, had to change all of them in 1 year. CPU temperature was 60-65 degrees tops and room temperature not higher than 30.
So yeah for the guy “mikrotik in a fields”: before that I had a setup where 112-8P in my room with 2 PSU 28V and 56V (China, IDK why you don’t make those yourselves, only 48V). Then cat 5e cable to hex s which was my main router, then ether5 poe out to powerbox pro as a corridor poe-switch which holds 2 cameras, uplink and cap ac. And all of that powered from one 112-8P port, which is why I had to go higher with voltage than 48V, because on a remote lane it could be lower than needed and also I had to comply with poe-out current per port as 0.5A, so higher voltage and lower current with the same power. Then I upgraded to 5009, thought I could replace hex s, but at the time in description there was no info that 5009 can only deliver power with DC jack plugged in. So I replaced 112-8P with 5009, moving main router into my room and bought l009 which at the time also didn’t have annotation that it also cannot deliver power from ether10 without DC jack. So now my middleman switch l009 stands with a separate UPS and 56V PSU, because I have no better option to pass at least 2.5 gbit between main router and middle switch and cannot pwoer it with poe only.
Maybe there’s a way to hardwire power from poe-in to poe-out for l009? I understand it’s a cheap model, but comon, there’s not even poe-out autodetect, only forced mode available.