Also, please understand, that Mikrotik is a infinitely configurable router.  These are just some configurations that existing Wireless companies in the United States are using PoweRouter's for.  This by no means the only ways you can use the PoweRouter Products! 

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As always, consult your network engineer, or a qualified wireless/network engineer.  Link Technologies, Inc, does offer full Mikrotik and Network Engineering Services, so please give us a call and we can help you design, implement, and manage your network!

PoweRouter Usage Scenarios

Example/Scenario #1:   The PoweRouter 732 is used for all routing, NAT, bandwidth controls  for Failover.  RouterBoard 532s are turned down, to just a simple Bridging Access Point, each 532 is plugged into separate ports on the PoweRouter and the PoweRouter is acting as a PPPoE Server, and/or DHCP Server.  Routing each sector, and possibly several Point-2-Point Links to other towers. 

Example/Scenario #2:  A number of customers and clients have already discovered that Motorola Canopy clusters work great with the PoweRouter's.  A perfect number of Ethernet ports with a uplink into another PoweRouter for other wireless links, or other connections. 

Link Technologies Support Staff can help you design a PoweRouter with 55 individually addressable Ports if needed!  This will let you use a few GigE Ports on the PoweRouter for backhauls, internet, etc, and then use 1 or 2 of the GigE ports for your Canopy clusters WHILE keeping each one fully routed and not bridged.

  Example/Scenario #3 -- Fiber Ring:  The PoweRouter has a Fiber Card Option, giving you two GigE Fiber ports on the back of the unit.  This option, allows you to create a fiber network, or fiber loop for your towers.

In this scenario, we have multiple connections to the internet, using fiber between tower locations, and finally closing the ring.  Using OSFP or now RSTP you can provide complete failover around the ring.  if one fiber connection is cut, data can reroute across the running links and out to the internet, resulting in minimal downtime.

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Using the extreme power of PoweRouter's, you can route hundreds of meg of traffic around fiber connections, up to gigabit speeds!  As well as providing gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect 300meg and faster wireless links, to other towers outside of your fiber loop area. 

We also carry a full line of Fiber to Ethernet Converters and 19Inch Rack Mount ethernet 2 fiber converter system.

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