You may remember me from such threads as Meraki MS220-series FOSS firmware and Meraki MS210/MS225 custom firmware testers wanted.
The Meraki MS420 series comprised 24 and 48 port SFP+ switches launched in the early 2010s. The MS420 reached its official EoL in 2023, and is no longer supported by Meraki. The drawback of this old and inexpensive hardware is of course, noise and power consumption. They have 4 screaming 40mm fans that operate at ~15k RPM, and idle power consumption is around 100W.
My aim here is to avoid more e-waste, since the switches are still quite capable and anyone who has one laying around right now will be tempted to send it to e-waste, which is categorically is not.
The MS420 series have a PowerPC management CPU (Freescale P2020E) with 2GB of RAM and 128MB of NAND. The switch ASIC is a Broadcom Trident+ (BCM56840).
Since they are EoL, they can be purchased extremely inexpensively (a seller recently accepted $45 BO for an MS420-24). Although given that other SFP+ switches from this era are also similar in noise/power and are quite cheap without modification, I would not suggest you all to rush out and submit an offer on a used MS420
If you have a Meraki MS420(-24/48) and are willing to test a very alpha firmware (and really, I cannot stress this enough, your expectations should be LOW) please get in touch.
The Meraki MS420 series comprised 24 and 48 port SFP+ switches launched in the early 2010s. The MS420 reached its official EoL in 2023, and is no longer supported by Meraki. The drawback of this old and inexpensive hardware is of course, noise and power consumption. They have 4 screaming 40mm fans that operate at ~15k RPM, and idle power consumption is around 100W.
My aim here is to avoid more e-waste, since the switches are still quite capable and anyone who has one laying around right now will be tempted to send it to e-waste, which is categorically is not.
The MS420 series have a PowerPC management CPU (Freescale P2020E) with 2GB of RAM and 128MB of NAND. The switch ASIC is a Broadcom Trident+ (BCM56840).
Since they are EoL, they can be purchased extremely inexpensively (a seller recently accepted $45 BO for an MS420-24). Although given that other SFP+ switches from this era are also similar in noise/power and are quite cheap without modification, I would not suggest you all to rush out and submit an offer on a used MS420
If you have a Meraki MS420(-24/48) and are willing to test a very alpha firmware (and really, I cannot stress this enough, your expectations should be LOW) please get in touch.
