Routerboard RB1000 spec’s were released to distributors today.
The heart of this device is a new state of the art
PowerPC networking processor which makes the
RB1000 faster than any other MikroTik product.
Our tests have shown that it can throughput up to
400000pps or 3.2Gbps full duplex!
Two CompactFlash slots for webproxy cache and
configuration backups of the User Manager database or
The Dude server are also present.
RB1000 includes RouterOS - the operating system,
which turns this powerful system into a highly
sophisticated router/firewall/bandwidth manager.
The unstopabble power of RouterOS and
RouterBOARD combined, we bring you the fastest
MikroTik router yet.
CPU PPC8547 1333MHz network processor
Memory SODIMM DDR Slot, 512MB installed
Boot loader RouterBOOT, 1Mbit Flash chip
Data storage Onboard NAND memory chip
Ethernet Four 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Gigabit Ethernet with Auto-MDI/X
miniPCI none
Compact Flash Two CompactFlash slot (TrueIDE Microdrive supported)
Serial port One DB9 RS232C asynchronous serial port
Beeper Present
Power options Power jack: 12V DC (includes power supply)
Fan Dual fan with failover support
Case Desktop case included
Dimensions 14 cm x 16 cm
Operating System MikroTik RouterOS v3, Level6 license
Desktop case and power supply is included. Rackmount case will be available Mid April.
List price is $895
Yes it does look fast,but at that price I would have thought there would be an expansion slot for T1,T3 or fiber cards. Or a Daughter board for more Ethernet ports
But then again it is a lower price then Cisco with the same set of features.
A lot of time has passed since that was true. We are using cache on RB1000 with CF drives, it works great. Modern CF drives don’t have this problem that you are worried about.
tip: you don’t need so much cache, because most of the web objects today are not cachable, everything is dynamic and built on php + javascript. you can only cache images and static files, but those are few.
As I said, even if you do cache these things, there is no guarantee that they will be used from there. Most things are dynamic and change all the time. You don’t want to serve your customer yesterdays news, do you?
I can tell you that my recent experience in using even brand name CF card as cache storage has not been pretty. Are you implying that today’s CF card are capable of 6 billion write cycle ? If so, can you please recommend a brand ?
The way proxy works is it caches the static object that your customer downloads, to serve it later when another client requests the same exact file. this can only work for static non-changing objects, which are images and static html files (which are becoming a rarity).
If your customers browse all the same sites - there are not many writes, just reads.
If your customers browse different sites all the time - there is no use for cache.
Even if you have a lot of data in your cache - it doesn’t mean it’s used all the time.
