I would love to see the EdgeRouter Lite, or something similar with 2 SFP ports and 2 1000bT ports (Which would fit with the OP's question). Q-in-Q tunneling and basic routing required, but not much else for me. Bonus points points for something like that with redundant power supplies for <$1k
There really does not seem to be anything in that space that is viable and inexpensive. thanks, -Randy ----- Original Message ----- > We’ve had two of the ER3s in production. One of which has had no problems to > date, the other one had several issues just staying online. It would > randomly drop out from time to time (no ICMP, didn't pass traffic; basically > a flashing brick). These were both single homed stub networks on older > firmware so your results may vary. In my past experience the Ubiquiti > release cycle is: > > Announce Product --> (1 year later) --> Reannounce Product /Start Shipping > --> (4 months later) --> Claim it's still on the boat and will reach > distributors soon --> (2 months later) --> Begin shipping from Distribution > with defunct firmware --> (8 months later and a few firmware updates) --> > Release a stable firmware version > > TL;DR: Ubiquiti has good, inexpensive equipment but it might not always be > ready for production networks or very patient customers. For what you’re > looking for though no one else can match that price point. > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Hess > Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:13 PM > To: sur...@mauigateway.com > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Residential CPE suggestions > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: > > I wouldn't worry. A fancy GUI without intelligent engineering and design > leveraged is just more rope for everyone to hang themselves with, esp. > when something in the GUI inevitably doesn't work quite like it's supposed > to. > > Network vendor GUIs never work 100% like they are supposed to; there's always > eventually some bug or another, or limitation requiring some workaround. > > And IPv6 is a game-changer. > > > It looks like everyone here should start looking for a new > > career: "Next-generation user experience allows anyone to quickly > > become a routing expert." > > > ;-) > > scott > -- > -JH >
