New vendor for RIPE Atlas v3 anchors
Dear all, Meconet, the latest addition to our list of vendors for RIPE Atlas v3 anchors, is offering the new anchor hardware fully assembled with 3 years warranty. The RIPE Atlas anchor from Meconet comes in a 19” chassis with integrated power supply: https://shop.meconet.de/a/117330?language=en <https://shop.meconet.de/a/117330?language=en> Whilst Meconet is currently the only one offering the device fully assembled, there are other vendors listed on the following page: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ <https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/> Updated information on the latest generation of RIPE Atlas anchors can be found in the following RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors> Best regards, Alun Davies RIPE NCC
Hi,
On 1 Nov 2017, at 08:45, Alun Davies <adavies@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear all, Meconet, the latest addition to our list of vendors for RIPE Atlas v3 anchors, is offering the new anchor hardware fully assembled with 3 years warranty. The RIPE Atlas anchor from Meconet comes in a 19” chassis with integrated power supply:
That’s pretty nice, not far short of half the price of the previous system.
Whilst Meconet is currently the only one offering the device fully assembled, there are other vendors listed on the following page:
https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/
Updated information on the latest generation of RIPE Atlas anchors can be found in the following RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors
Many thanks for the update. Best wishes, Tim
Doesn't this version support 10G in some way? Is there a vendor who is offering it with 10G or at least in a case you could add it yourself after? Bryan Socha Network Engineer bryan@digitalocean.com ________________________________ We're Hiring! | @digitalocean On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Alun Davies <adavies@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear all,
Meconet, the latest addition to our list of vendors for RIPE Atlas v3 anchors, is offering the new anchor hardware fully assembled with 3 years warranty. The RIPE Atlas anchor from Meconet comes in a 19” chassis with integrated power supply:
https://shop.meconet.de/a/117330?language=en
Whilst Meconet is currently the only one offering the device fully assembled, there are other vendors listed on the following page:
https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/
Updated information on the latest generation of RIPE Atlas anchors can be found in the following RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors
Best regards, Alun Davies RIPE NCC
On 08/11/2017 04:52, Bryan Socha wrote:
Doesn't this version support 10G in some way? Is there a vendor who is offering it with 10G or at least in a case you could add it yourself after?
Hi Bryan, Quick answer: no, it doesn't support 10G. In our different board evaluations, we found that requiring support for 10G conflicts with the desire to make the box cheaper and easily available. Getting a PCIe slot on cheap embedded boards is not common - they usually support miniPCIe instead. Longer answer: we did look, though :) There are two options: 1) the APU3a2/4 models have a PCIe slot option, but you'd need to order it as a custom board option, and get a case made that supports it. We could not find any existing cases that would support an extra card, or any current vendors who sell the board with the PCIe slot option. 2) It might be possible to use a miniPCIe-to-PCIe extender, to borrow a 1x PCIe lane from one of the miniPCIe slots and present it on a full-size PCIe card slot. We actually did try this, but could not figure out how to make it work. And you'd still need a case that supports a card. In the end we decided it was not wothwhile, since we wanted a model that was easily available worldwide from multiple suppliers. Kind Regards, Colin -- Colin Petrie Systems Engineer RIPE NCC
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