+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> 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 > > -- > - Forrest > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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