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Shuffle poles for smart cities utilizing Siklu

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Siklu, a global leader in Fixed 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions for Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA), Smart City and security networks, today announced an initiative with Schréder, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of outdoor lighting systems, to create the first-ever “Wireless Smart Pole” – thanks to a new module available with the Schreder Smart Pole: … Read more

Mikrotik Releases 6.47.6

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What’s new in 6.47.6 (2020-Oct-21 10:41): *) cap – fixed L2MTU path discovery;*) crs3xx – fixed hardware offloaded LACP bonding on Ethernet interfaces for CRS354 devices;*) crs3xx – fixed switch rules for CRS309 and CRS317 devices (introduced in v6.47.3);*) defconf – fixed default configuration loading on RBmAP-2nD;*) dhcpv4-client – fixed DHCP offer packet parsing with … Read more

OpenGear Resilience gateway for ISPs

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Some quick notes and screenshots from the OpenGear Resilience Gateway https://opengear.com/products/acm7000-resilience-gateway . The model I am working with is the ACM7004-2-L. It has 4 serial Cisco Straight pinout, Dual 1 GbE Ethernet, Global 4G LTE-A Pro cellular, 2 DIO, and 2 output ports. So what does this thing do and what can it do for … Read more

Siklu Case study 80 GHZ Indianapolis Indiana

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Some photos from a Siklu 80GHZ deployment in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. This was deployed by On-Ramp Indiana (https://www.ori.net). The problem being solved is moving video files around a network in order to get it to smart screens and projectors. This is a very urban area and wireless was pretty much the only option to get … Read more

Mikrotik Audience

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Mikrotik 6.47.1 released

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Lots of things here. Some noteable things What’s new in 6.47.1 (2020-Jul-08 12:34): *) crs3xx – fixed HW offloading for netPower 15FR and netPower 16P devices (introduced in v6.47);*) crs3xx – fixed increased CPU temperature for CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+ device (introduced in v6.47);*) crs3xx – improved Ethernet port group traffic forwarding for CRS354 devices;*) dhcpv6-server – disallow … Read more

Mikrotik Routeros 7.0beta7

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What’s new in 7.0beta7 (2020-Jun-3 16:31): !) added Layer3 hardware offloading support for CRS317-1G-16S+RM more info here: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CRS3xx_series_switches#L3_Hardware_Offloading!) enabled BGP support with multicore peer processing (CLI only);!) enabled RPKI support (CLI only);!) ported features and fixes introduced in v6.47;!) routing updates, complete status report: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/v7+Routing+Protocol+Status!) system kernel has been updated to version 5.6.3;*) other minor … Read more

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