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smservi
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Optical Fiber.

Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:07 am

Hi.
I need to know if mikrotik has any routerboard that suports optical fiber and which one...
Or if routerOS supports optical interfaces on custom hardware (X86)...

Thanks...
 
fewi
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:22 am

There aren't any RouterBOARDs with fiber ports right now (though one has been announced for a future release).

You can use fiber NICs in x86 systems. You can use any card that has a chipset supported in a stock Linux kernel. Intel cards are probably a good bet.
 
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:46 am

It would be great to see a 19" rack mounted version of something like the 1200 series with at least 2 fiber ports on it with small form-factor pluggable SFP/Mini-GBIC. 95% my work building is fiber optic( 90 % Multimode, 10% Singlemode) and it makes sense to me to see MikroTik to be bring a product like that to production.
 
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:27 am

 
lordzar
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:30 am

My router is mounted right next to my hp procurve switch that has SFP+ ports, so I just use a mini-gbic fiber transceiver and configure a vlan to a copper port and use the switch as a media converter.
 
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:53 pm

anyone know of a fiber card for x86
 
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Re: Optical Fiber.

Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:37 pm

maybe you can look at intel x520 card. Maybe other users that use SFP+ can suggest some card.