This week we have Greg, Greg, and a little more Greg. It’s a solo cast due to time constraints…wasn’t my idea, file it with the complaint department.
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This week we talk about:
Datacenter xconnects; what I’ve learned over the years.
Troubleshooting issues on CRS3XX sucks
^^^Not to mention lack of switch config exporting
What are your travel essentials
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This week we have Greg, Tommy C, and Nick A. just over here feeling the love LOL.
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This week we talk about:
WISPAPalooza,
Mike got an award for TBW’s contribution to the WISP industry.
big note, No Ubiquiti
Mimosa A6x & C6x
Tarana – Several people say it’s good stuff
Everyone has 60GHz gear, even Adtran…
Mikrotik netfiber9 – 5 SFP and 4 SFP+. Barrel jack and poe in for power
Finally stable(ish) v7?
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This week we have Greg, Greg L(https://www.linkedin.com/in/glipschitz/), Chad Wachs, and Mike Hammett…and yes, Pepperidge Farm remembers.
PS: Mike’s audio is bad for a few minutes, but we fix it up pretty quick.
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This week we talk about:
WISPAPALOOZA – Swag, LTE products
Selling phone service
Facebook outage, I didn’t get a single support call…and yes my phones are working again.
OOB mgmt methods
work from home during covid
Mtk newsletter 102
DPSK on Ruckus h500s
I had to replace more FS SFP+s in my MDU, and this time went with industrial SFPs
Got to eat lunch with Doug Eames, Colin Z. and Grumpy Old Matt in Dallas.
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This week we have Greg and Nick A. with this week’s after school special.
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This week we talk about:
Equipment lead times – seems slow, but moving.
voip.ms ddos
voip.ms ddos possibly extortion attack
bandwidth.com saw hours of outage today too…another victim?
Cloud based mitigation on services
Is your Mikrotik part of Meris botnet
Meris breakdown
Zach made a meric check playbook for ansible
Thrift reports some instability in the beta MLAG, but expects it to be sorted
6.49.rc1 *) winbox – added “interface-speed-100G” LED type to “System/LEDs” menu;
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This week we have Greg, Nick A., and Alex Hart giving us the Hart to Heart.
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This week we talk about:
ROS V7.rc3 adds docker containers(additional package)
Colin’s blog shout out
ROS V7.rc3 adds docker containers(additional package)
Thrift says 7rc1 mlag seems stable, but Ole says wifi is not on some of the older hardware
Zerotier has some folks excited…or perhaps spicy is a better word for it LOLOL
Mikrotik IP cloud bricked for a day or so
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This week we have Greg and Nick A. giving our annual fire side chat.
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This week we talk about:
Mikrotik ROS V7.1rc1 released
Unifi Talk
Satellite Azure deploy VM with AAP final config
dPSK vs SSID per resident in MDU
Aliexpress blackholes
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This week we have Greg, Mike, Tommy, and Andrew Thrift doing some hardware catchup.
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This week we talk about:
RB5009 video with Janis Megis!
RB5009 – 1GB RAM/Flash, 4 cour 1.4Ghz ARMv8, 7 gig ports, 1 2.5Gb, 1 SFP+ – $219 USD
RB5009 rack mount – 4 per 1U
New CCR2004 video with Pauls Jukonis
CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS – 16 copper gig ports, 2 SPF+, dual AC PSU, 2 switch chips each with 10Gb lane – $465 USD
V7.1 route filter updates
Thrift V7 testing CRS3XX
MCLAG/MLAG on CRS3XX testing
Marvell Acquiring Innovium for High-End Switch ASIC
Marvell Prestera 7k – 3 Chipsets. DX7312 300G (12x 25G SERDES), DX7325 1.2T (24x 50G SERDES), DX7335 1.6T (32x 50G SERDES) – MACSec, SRv6, 400G Optics
Speeduino
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This special cast has Greg, Tommy C, Ole, Brett, and Brad chat about the basics of GPON and how it compares to Active Ethernet. This is all about delivering fiber to the customer and there is a LOT of information in here. It is a longer episode, but we don’t finish everything, so let us know what we missed for the follow up episode.
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This week we talk about:
Define GPON
Define Active Ethernet
How does GPON work-splitters/oversubscription/ONT/OLT
How strong is vendor lock-in on GPON
Vendor cost vs support game
Who can you call for help
What is XGSPON
What is FEC
Cabinet types
Cabinet locations
GPON vs XGSPON speeds
GPON in the MDU vs copper cabling
ONT with wifi vs ONT with standard router
Distance from OLT to customers
Distance between customers
How TDMA works in GPON
Tools
Splicers
Cleavers
Locate kits
OTDRs
VFLs
Cleaners
Pigtails vs mechanical connections
Scopes
Live fiber monitoring
APC vs UPC connections
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This week we have Greg, Mike, and Colin comin in hot and shootin that shot.
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This week we talk about:
Anyone going to ‘Plooza this year…Greg is thinking about it?
New Mikrotik cAP XL AC is a pretty beefy antenna…not sure what the gain is yet, but it’s chonky
Do you use a travel AP/router on the road?
What’s in your work travel bag(you are taking a flight)?
What kind of bag do you use for travel?
Digital business cards
Datasheets
Deleting Posts on Vendor Forums
Facebook trolling
Customer touches
Many more things that I can’t remember
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This week we have Greg and Mike doing their Starsky and Hutch impression…or maybe it’s Thelma and Louise 😉
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This week we talk about:
Linktech cloud mikrotik control
ROSv7 stable for the Chateau products. Sounds like routing is the show stopper right now
How to tell if a remote switch loses power
It is so refreshing to work with a vendor that cares/helps.
Mike ranting about vendors treating beta as production, abandonware, incomplete products\services, etc.
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