We do in a lot of places to be honest but they don't work well at the
towers with no temperature control. It's more the heat than the cold but
they generate more heat than I'd like and they don't always deal with it
well.
We have x86 boxes using our BMU hardware in 7 of the towers today but
they are not a good fit everywhere.
On 5/7/2012 4:24 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Just use the BMUs, they're cheap.
</troll>
You'll find some people are happy, other people hate them. For me,
the 751 has been unbelievably awful. I'm on my third one since Vegas.
Since Vegas, I've not had 2 weeks of uptime. I've tried every
version since 4.17 (4.17 works flawlessly except a bug with
wifi/Android). Others are rolling out dozens to customers flawlessly.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Simon Westlake<si...@powercode.com> wrote:
So, we're beginning the process of converting the second third (yes, I know
that is confusing..) of the network to a routed, OSPF network. When I first
came here, the entire thing (all 200+ towers) was bridged and I'm trying to
slowly get it all moved. I've converted about 55 towers so far and
everything is running well with a mix of RB450G, RB493G and a few x86 boxes
in the bigger towers. I would prefer not to support the x86 boxes if
possible - it is much easier for me from a business perspective to just
stock regular inventory and throw in a new one if the box fails without
worrying about where we got the x86 box, what the specs were, what the
temperature requirement is, etc.
So, on that train of thought, I looked at the RB1100AHx2 for some of our
bigger sites. On paper, it looks great - great temp range, enough ports,
better processing, etc.
Real world, what have you guys been finding with this box? I stayed far away
from the plain RB1100 as I heard nothing but bad things about it in the
past. Are those days gone? Is this a solid box now? For reference, we'll be
running something like 200-400Mbps through these boxes in most cases.
Features we use today are OSPF, filtering, DHCP relay - no PPPoE, generally
no VPN and no tunnels, etc. That may change in the future but I'm just
looking for a solid packet processor right now.
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Powercode.com
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