Uni Student Halls Of Residence Network Comms Room Tour: Mikrotik Routerboard, Cisco Switches, Fibre!

42 thoughts on “Uni Student Halls Of Residence Network Comms Room Tour: Mikrotik Routerboard, Cisco Switches, Fibre!”

• I love how quiet it is in there. Networking hardware has become so efficient in recent years.

• where does an ADVA sit in between that setup?

• Out of curiosity, why don't you connect both fiber lines through the router board as separate connections, and allocate one fiber line per side of campus? And bridge the networks with a router to allow for local traffic between the two networks? It seems like it should be possible to do fairly simply.

• Out of curiosity, why don't you connect both fiber lines through the router board as separate connections, and allocate one fiber line per side of campus? And bridge the networks with a router to allow for local traffic between the two networks? It seems like it should be possible to do fairly simply.

• Out of curiosity, why don't you connect both fiber lines through the router board as separate connections, and allocate one fiber line per side of campus? And bridge the networks with a router to allow for local traffic between the two networks? It seems like it should be possible to do fairly simply.

• a university with a non starred network – OUCH!!!!!!!! Networking 101.

• If you designed this network, I'm sorry to say that you're a failure.

  It's harsh but true.

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• I work at a small ISP, 70% of traffic is from google servers and youtube servers, 20% from facebook and instagram and 10% from other websites and services.

• That's quite unfortunate that you don't even get fiber to the switches.That setup might have worked just fine back in the mid 2000s when it was first set up, but it is definitely time for an upgrade.

• Surely those switches should be connected via stack cables?

• I've never seen a bottle with five necks before.

• only 200 mbps capacity ? lame

• Neck beards saying this setup is trash lol. Loads of places running on average setups like this or much much worse, particularly in a student residence. Congrats if you work in a place with unlimited budget but in the real world where management and finance teams only care about the bottom line this is a fairly standard setup that is thankfully quite clean and tidy. Easy to criticise but the people putting this together probably were probably well aware of the flaws and limitations of the design but had to work to a budget and deadline. At the end of the day it’s all it is just going to be used for is streaming porn and Netflix doesn’t exactly need to be a cutting edge 40 or 10gig equip with full redundancy. Cheaper and older gear like this can still offer better speeds than some ISPs if you live in a crap area.

• The network an event I help at that runs one day a month with a network laid the night before has a better failover then this rack. EHHH

• Why is Mikrotik soo popular in europe? genuine question. is it performance, price etc? how good is the actual product?
  one of my distributors here in the US recently started carrying their products.

• While I'm not a fan of the network design I would say Kudos for keeping the cabling neat and tidy. Closets like these tend to become a rats nest of cables, and you and your team look like you keep a clean shop.

• I would connect those switches via a stack cable and do fiber channel from the top to all the switches. No DAISY CHAINING. That's like the core rule in networking. Plus you have zero redundancy. You should have at least 2 fiber lines going to the other part of the building, 2 copper lines going to the switch stack and 2 copper lines coming from the modem. If you really wanted redundancy you would have a backup route to another modem in case the primary line fails.

• Routerboard? The Same brand the Public Transport of my City uses for it's free WiFi – which almost never works – there are literally two Buses whose WiFi doesn't have Internet for over 1 year now 🙁

• 1:58 all the students? I have a server with 10Gbit unshared port 300TB bandwidth..

  XD

• StackWise? Cowboy job

• Why are the switches Daisy chained, wouldn't it be better to directly connect those bottom 4 to the top switch

• The switch chain is painful.

• stackable switches should at least be cleaner and better to troubleshoot or helpful as failover this is awful

• This is sad, just like all school networks.

• It won't help at all if you don't set up ether channel or stack your damn switches. You're just Daisy chaining..

• This was poorly designed. I wonder if you guys are getting ripped off by any third party vendor that set it up?

• The only problem with this network is the traffic of 100+ network connections being pushed through one cat 5e cable to the fiber connection. Even with 2 fibers which the speaker says will be coming in the future, the bottleneck will still exist. Also, I believe the cisco 2600 switch only does at most 100mb connection per port including the uplink port based on my experience; if someone can clarify, that would be okay.

• Still a lot of area to improve specially the redundancy part and CoreSW design should be adopted…

• Я думал это у меня все плохо в серверной… хотя если студенты сами лепили то все нормально.

• Microtik. I hate it.

• trash. everything in that rack is bad. get a job at McDonalds instead.

• Let me show you my configuration. Its garbage.

• You can make it better without spending money. It looks like your top 2960 is at 50% port capacity so what I would do is remove the daisy chaining as this is just asking for a spanning tree fault/loop also if the top switch of the chain fails you lose everything below, then home the bottom 4 switches to the top switch (make it the STP Root Bridge) and if you have enough ports do bonding/LAG for increased capacity and redundancy. This design is a lot cleaner, spanning tree looks nicer and more deterministic.

• The Mikrotik can be configured to load balancing to both WAN links

• Email Address kindly share me Adnan.medialink@gmail.com

• What a nerd

• So Mikrotik and TOR Cisco switches are single point of failure. So by me it shold be two CCR1036 or 1072 that are stacked. From them 4 connections to 10G switches on two side of campus. On each site should be 10G switches that are stacked (active/standby) with 2x 40G QSFP+ DAC for full redudancy. In your case, when you lose RB or any of the Cisco, you are offline. 🙂 In your setup, you should add one more mikrotk in first site and one more catalyst in stack at each site.

• I'd love to see the network setup in college it's solid, 1.5GBPS Symmetrical incoming line, seeing that ZYXEL router making be slightly angry is I've just had one of there NAS units drastically fail on me lol

• looks like one of the more advanced guest wifi setups..

• So 60% of the traffic is piracy, 35% online gaming and 5% actual work? 😀😀

• It’s so quiet 🤫

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