Mikrotik CRS504-4XQ-IN...$800?

[RobstarUSA]

Hopefully STH will review this when it's generally available. Anyone else interested in this?

 

[psannz]

Given the love the CRS305-1G-4S+IN got here? Basically, it comes down to when they review it. Not if, but when.

Wonder if L3HW is supported on release day.

 

[RTM]

Interesting device, though a bit out of my price range (not to say needs)

I hoped they would have made it fanless (it has 2 fans), but with a bit of luck they have overbuilt the heatsink like on the CRS317, so the fans don't have to run often and when they do it is at a low speed.

Given the love the CRS305-1G-4S+IN got here? Basically, it comes down to when they review it. Not if, but when.

Wonder if L3HW is supported on release day.

I would be surprised if it did not support L3, a core router with that amount of IO without L3 is kind of meaningless.

 

[RobstarUSA]

I have a feeling it's goinng to be simiilar to the others at "ipv4 only" at least to start. Not all that useful, but the switching capaility is still great for the price.

 

[RobstarUSA]

Product page is now up:

CRS504-4XQ-IN | MikroTik

Your most affordable, compact, energy-efficient doorway to the world of 100 Gigabit networking. This switch is the next step in upgrading existing 10 or 25 Gigabit networks. Multiple powering options, dual hot-swap power supplies.

mikrotik.com

 

[anthros]

At work, I have four cluster nodes with 25 GbE that I’m about to connect via Mellanox’s host-chaining feature. We have a 10-12 workstations (also with 25 GbE cards) that would be great to use as cluster nodes on occasion.

I’d love to set this switch up on an unroutable subnet for HPC traffic only. A new PFC/ROCE switch seems to start at $3K at least. I bet that with only 16 nodes, zero-touch ROCE would be reasonably efficient.

(If anyone has experience with ZTR, I’m all ears).