Want to get sponsored by me? Here’s how.
Wait, what? What do you mean by sponsoring?
I do own a significant amount of hardware, aka servers, networking hardware & wireless infrastructure. I use this equipment to provide mobile infrastructure at events, for lab purposes (testing setups for customers, education, etc), number crunching, etc…
However, this equipment sits unused from time to time.
I actually enjoy setting up mobile infrastructure / networks at events. Hence I am always looking for cool events where I can have fun and can have my equipment that would otherwise sit unused provide some benefit!
So if you are conducting a non-profit event and need some temporary infrastructure & manpower at no cost, please feel free to Contact Me.
If you are conducting a for-profit event and need some temporary infrastructure & manpower, please also Contact Me to discuss your requirements and get a quote.
There will be no dry-hire of equipment.
Below is an excerpt from the list of equipment that is available
Excerpt of available equipment (click for details)
Switches
- 6x Mellanox SN2700 32x100G QSFP28 running Cumulus Linux 5.11 (4x Spectrum A0, 2x Spectrum A1)
- 4x Mellanox SN2410 48x25G SFP28 + 8x100G QSFP28 running Cumulus Linux 5.11 (all Spectrum A1)
- 3x Mellanox SN2010 18x25G SFP28 + 4x100G QSFP28 running Cumulus Linux 5.11 (all Spectrum A1)
- 8x Tomahawk-based Spine switches 32x100G QSFP28 (Plexxi PX-S3EQ aka Celestica DX010) running EOS 4.30.5M
- 4x Arista 7050TX-72Q Trident-II 48x10G RJ45 + 6x40G QSFP+ running EOS 4.28.12M
- 2x Ruckus ICX7650-48ZP 24x10/5/2.5/1G RJ45 + 24x1G RJ45 + 2x100G/4x40G QSFP28 with PoE++ (802.3bt), running FastIron 10
- 1x Juniper EX4300-48MP 24x10/5/2.5/1G RJ45 + 24x1G RJ45 + 2x100G QSFP28 with PoE++ (802.3bt), running Junos 21.4R3-S7.6
- 4x Arista 7050QX-32S Trident-II 32x40G QSFP+ running EOS 4.28.12M
- A ton of Brocade / Ruckus ICX7450, ICX6610, ICX7150, ICX7250, ICX6450 including 12 (fanless), 24 and 48 port models with and without PoE
General networking
- Huge amount of transceivers
- 3 digit amount of 100G-CWDM4, primarily 2km but also 500m variants, capable of running at 100G and 40G
- good amount of 40G-LR4 10km
- good amount of 10GBase-LR 10km
- huge amount of 40G-SR4
- Huge amount of QSFP28 to QSFP28 cables in various lengths (0.5m / 1m / 1.5m / 2m / 3m)
- Good amount of QSFP28 to 4x SFP28 breakout cables
- Some SFP28 cables
Servers & Parts & Misc
- 3x AMD EPYC 7763 64C @ Supermicro H12SSL-NT + 512GB RAM + variable NICs (ConnectX-6 / ConnectX-4, etc) + 12-slot full Hybrid SATA/SAS/NVMe Gen5 backplane + Broadcom 9500-8i HBA
- 3x Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL 24C @ ASRock Rack EPC621D8A + 1024GB Optane DCPMM + 192GB RAM + variable NICs (ConnectX-6 / ConnectX-4, etc) + 12-slot Hybrid SATA/SAS/NVMe Backplane + Broadcom 9400-8i HBA
- various dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum machines (8259CL / 8275CL)
- Ryzen 5950X 16C @ ASRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T + 128GB RAM,…
- Various NICs (primarily Mellanox ConnectX-6, Mellanox ConnectX-4, Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx, etc…) & other parts like HBAs
- Vertiv GXT4 3000VA double conversion UPSes
Wireless infrastructure
- 3x Ruckus SmartZone SZ124 appliance (running SmartZone 6.1.2)
- 7x Ruckus R850 8:8x8 Wi-Fi 6 AP
- 7x Ruckus R750 4:4x4 Wi-Fi 6 Outdoor AP with custom mounting hardware
- A collection of Ruckus R750 4:4x4, R650, R550 and R350 Wi-Fi 6 APs
- A collection of Ruckus R720 4:4x4 and R710 Wi-Fi 5 APs
- A collection of Ruckus T710s (sector) and T610s (sector) Wi-Fi5 outdoor APs