It would be hard pressed for that scenario to even scrape 1Gbit per house, unless you have local services you're looking Like Greg said, maybe a pair of 24 port cisco 2960-x or juniper ex2200 with stacking (even utilising something like a 4x1gbit group for the stack) and a pair of rb1100's or ccr1009's for the router sounds like it would be sufficient. The hardware cost would probably be in the vicinity of $10k which would no doubt come close to the axiomtek unit combo you initially mention but would give you far greater hardware redundancy and I'd say much better performance - not to mention nicer administration. -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Russell Hurren Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 3:50 PM To: 'MikroTik Australia Public List' <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Network design Hi RJ That's right - Sam and I have a couple of mutual friends. My initial thoughts when I was first given the drawings were the same as yours, but the project has been on hold for over a year and there's more options available than there used to be. I started looking at 10GbE equipment after having a conversation with a colleague who suggested that we might need it. The site will have a combination of short and long term guests, and I want to ensure that they can use any room as an office if necessary, so we'll have Ethernet to each room and wireless access points in the ceilings or walls. I want to make sure there's enough bandwidth as their requirements increase (eg, when the NBN gets faster, they start asking for video conferencing etc). They probably don't need 10GbE right now, but I want to give them the option. I'd looked at the CRS212-1G-10S-1S+IN, but there's quite a few comments on the forum saying that it overheats when it's loaded with SFP modules. I'm familiar with RouterOS, and being able to use it throughout simplifies management, but ultimately I'll use what they need and not use Mikrotik out of brand loyalty. Regards Russell Hurren Managing Director Zero Point Networks PTY LTD (08) 6262 ZERO -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of RJ Plummer Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:54 To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Network design Hi Russell, First of all hello your name rang a bell and I looked back and noticed you were starting up a business and sent through a list of capabilities to my colleague sam kendall. In response to your questions, It feels like there's something missing from here. What is the internal 10Gbit requirement? This deployment would traditionally be handled predominately via switching and not routing(or bridging) so it seems a little strange. I wouldn't recommend a CCR or an x86 for what you describe as it's limited by software and would give you an overhead and potential issues that you may not need to have at all. If you're just chasing a multi-tenant serving for IP + other services to those houses + extras it might be able to be achieved by a pair of affordable switches + pair of rb1100's. Kind regards, RJ Plummer Director -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Russell Hurren Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 2:17 PM To: 'MikroTik Australia Public List' <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: [MT-AU Public] Network design Hi everyone I'm designing a network for a large accommodation facility. It'll have an office/conference hall containing the server room and 8 houses (mixture of 1, 2 and 3 storey). Later on they'll add numerous small units at the other end of the site. My thoughts were to use an AxiomTek NA850 (http://axiomtek.com/Default.aspx?MenuId=Products&FunctionId=ProductView&ItemId=1152&upcat=233) with 3x 4 port 10GbE running RouterOS as the main switch, a CCR1016-12S-1S+ as a secondary (so we've still got 1Gbps if the 10Gbps fails, but cheaper than 2x 10Gbps switches). I'd put CRS226-24G-2S+RMs in each of the buildings. The site will have NBN. It's a non-profit organisation so I don't think they'll go for enterprise fibre. Might go for multiple NBN links, not so much for redundancy but to separate voice and data etc. When they build the second stage, I was going to have a half height rack somewhere with another CCR1016-12S-1S+, and that connecting to either CRS125-24G-1S-RMs, or perhaps wall mount RB2011's or similar. My questions: . Will I get wirespeed switching at 1Gbps on the CCR, and at 10Gbps on the NA850? It'd be a dual Xeon with as much RAM as I need to specify. . What should I use a router? Perhaps a CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+? The bypass feature of the RB1100AHx2 was interesting (and the AxiomTek's have a bypass feature too) but I'm not sure how much cpu power I need. The site is a day's drive from me, so it needs to be reliable. There's people onsite who can handle things like swapping out a power supply (as long as I've got a way of detecting a failed one). Regards Russell Hurren Managing Director Zero Point Networks PTY LTD (08) 6262 ZERO _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au