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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikrotik wikipedia entry] which does not contain much useful information | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikrotik wikipedia entry] which does not contain much useful information | ||
I have a [[MikroTik RouterBoard]] in a black box. I need to flash RouterOS on it so I can use it for testing. | I have a [[MikroTik RouterBoard]] in a black box. I need to flash '''RouterOS''' on it so I can use it for testing. | ||
* SXT CPE | * SXT "Six pack" = one router plus 5 CPE They claim up to 200 MBps | ||
* RouterBoard | * RouterBoard | ||
* Managed switch | * Managed switch | ||
* 5 Ghz | * 5 Ghz | ||
=== Ubiquiti === | === Ubiquiti === | ||
[http://www.ubnt.com/ home page] | [http://www.ubnt.com/ Ubiquiti home page] | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquiti wikipedia] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquiti wikipedia] | ||
They used to be known for high power WiFi PC cards that could be used with other equipment (like RouterBoards) | |||
* AirGrid M5 | * AirGrid M5 |
Revision as of 21:45, 30 May 2014
Overview
Cambium Canopy
Cambium home page wikipedia on Motorola Canopy
"A customer can query the status of their SM by viewing URL 169.254.1.1/main.cgi with a web browser (unless the network operator uses a different IP address or has put the subscriber in a VLAN."
- 900 MHz for non-line-of-sight applications - also very long range?
- 5.7 GHz - normally used for backhauls
3 - 15 mile range
- cluster manager
- access point
- subscriber module
- back haul
Mikrotik
Mikrotik home page wikipedia entry which does not contain much useful information
I have a MikroTik RouterBoard in a black box. I need to flash RouterOS on it so I can use it for testing.
- SXT "Six pack" = one router plus 5 CPE They claim up to 200 MBps
- RouterBoard
- Managed switch
- 5 Ghz
Ubiquiti
They used to be known for high power WiFi PC cards that could be used with other equipment (like RouterBoards)
- AirGrid M5
- Bullet
- NanoStation M5 5 Ghz CPE
Firmware is "AirOS" = their version of Linux
RF
AirMax - Proprietary MIMO protocol on 900, 3, 5
AirFiber 24 Ghz
Management
Not being a Microsoft fan I am looking at alternatives to ["The Dude"] for managing and monitoring my RouterOS equipmnent.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39335 http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=76300
NMIS -- hard to tell from the cute cartoons what this is.
$ Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
NetXMS Open source network monitoring system - uses Openstreetmap
Cacti Cacti is a complete network graphing solution - lots of plugins - Packt book
- OpenNMS
- PRTG
- Smokeping
- KS Soft Hostmonitor
- Zenoss