Me Likey alot!
Anxious to see all the new stuff this year.
Dave
On 10/8/19 5:55 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
In addition to my SNMP response, I just remembered there was something
else I wanted to add.
In re: the base II, if you're comfortable and familiar with the way it
works, there is right now little reason to upgrade. That's why we're
not discontinuing it immediately. One of the vendors we use uses the
phrase "Customer Driven Obsolescence", which is what we're going to do
with the Base II. We have a few products like this in our inventory
- they go from very well stocked, to limited stock, to build to order,
and at some point we look and say 'we haven't sold any (or 1 or 2) in
the last year, we're just going to stop offering them'.
But for new users, the Base 3 is much simpler to use interface wise,
and the SNMP is a lot easier to grasp due to the MIBS. Plus I've got
things like scripting and on-device logging/graphing on the roadmap
(not committing to a timeline yet - treat these two as vaporware right
now).
The last year or so we've taken to hiding the base unit and similar
sort of in the back of the booth and we show off the
rackinjector since we know how hard the base II can be for the newer
generation of users we are seeing. Those of us who have been around
the block a few times can use either, but the base 3 is a lot easier
to deal with interface wise.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 7:57 AM Josh Luthman
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
+1 for keeping SiteMonitor base 2 but I would like to see what
base 3 looks like in Vegas.
Hopefully you have the SNMP MIB match?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:55 AM Forrest Christian (List Account)
<li...@packetflux.com <mailto:li...@packetflux.com>> wrote:
Sorry for the non-Friday marketing, I'm trying to get out of
town headed toward WISPAPALOOZA with a few meetings and family
visits along the way. But figured several of you would be
interested in the following.
(The following is a mostly-duplicate of an email I sent out to
customers who asked to be notified of new product announcements).
At WISPAPALOOZA next week, we’ll be showcasing the SiteMonitor
Base 3 Classic Edition.
The Base 3 is the successor of the current Base Unit II
product. It’s designed with an easy to use and mobile-friendly
web interface virtually identical to the one in our
RackInjector product. Gone are the 1’s and 0’s of the old
SNMP-based web interface. Instead, everything is easy to
understand and much more intuitive. If you’re at WISPAPALOOZA,
stop by and take a look (and tell your friends too).
In addition, the Base 3 is designed with the future in mind.
The existing Base Unit II product reached a point where there
wasn’t any room in the internal program memory to add more
functionality. In contrast, we’ve just barely touched the
surface of what the Base 3 is capable of. We’ll be adding more
and more features as time goes on.
The Classic Edition retains the existing form factor and
maintains electrical compatibility with the existing product
line. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for the older
Base Units. At most sites, you’ll be able to simply swap out a
Base Unit II for a Base 3 and gain all of the functionality of
the newer Base 3.
For those of you who have expansion modules (such as
SyncInjectors, PowerInjectors, additional I/O and/or other
interfaces), our intent is to support most expansion modules
that have shipped. At release, you’ll be able to manage the
Base 3 and Revision H or later SyncInjectors and
PowerInjectors. Others will be added quickly afterward. The
only possible exception is some of the very first modules we
shipped well over 7 years ago – we’re still assessing the
earliest modules to determine what’s needed to support them.
If we can support them, we will.
For many of the expansion modules, you’ll instantly gain much
more functionality than was possible to accomplish with the
previous Base Unit. As a specific example, the SyncInjectors
and PowerInjectors are gaining greatly improved GPS and 1PPS
status information, to help troubleshoot any GPS receiver
problems one might have. In addition, port descriptions are
now long enough to store pretty much any information and are
set on a per-port, not per-item basis.
We’ll be taking pre-orders for the new Base 3 shortly, with
units hopefully shipping around the end of the year.
Initially, pre-orders will be limited to 2 per customer,
primarily for in-network testing. The pre-order price will be
the same as the existing Base Unit II’s at $99.95. We are
still working on setting the final price, but it will be most
likely to be somewhat higher due to increased product costs.
Although we feel that many of our customers will switch over
to the Base 3, we also know that some people will want to
continue to deploy the Base Unit II product to maintain
consistency across their network. We currently have no
definite plans to discontinue the Base Unit II. We will
continue to stock it as long as customers continue to buy it
fairly regularly. After that, we will likely keep it available
for purchase on a build to order basis as long as it is
economically feasible to do so.
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to email us at
cust...@packetflux.com <mailto:cust...@packetflux.com>
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