I know there was a BR200 replacement out for the BR500 but it appears this has gone way of the dodo bird as well. This BR200 look like a nice unit, anyone know if a replacement is in the works?. Doesn't appear to be any available, not sure if the BR200 is EOL already .
It would be good to hear about Netgears future router strategy. It's notable that a replacement is offered due to vulnerabilities but the Orbi SXR30 is not an alternative at all (not for me). To what I understand drom the SXR30 datasheet there is no IPSec, no OpenVPN and lastly doesn't fit into a 19" rack.
The outcome is either wait on a successor or buy a Non-Netgear VPN router.
>>Please wait for the announcement of our new products coming very soon.<<
Thanks Dana, I had seen the datasheet before. But let's have a quick look to what you are referring to:
>>If you WAC500/WAX600 series AP for wireless, Then just use SXR80 as wired Business router.<<
I do have, so ok.
>>SXR80 has 2.5Gbps WAN port. It can do 5 DHCP pools, It can handle up-to 512 DHCP IP address in each pool.<<
>>The 4 LAN wired ports can be put into Access mode/Trunk Mode and PVID configured.<<
Ok. That area is covered.
>>For VPN, Branch2Branch we support Business VPN. It is better than older Instant VPN.<<
I had Instant VPN/BR500 which did a routing of every VLAN to every destination. Maybe Business VPN does better by SSID. I read about monthly cost of 3.xx per user? Anyhow, this would be additional running cost that IPSec or OpenVPN tunnel doesn't require.
SXR80 has also port forwarding, -triggering, dyndns and traffic rules (inter-VLAN)?
>>The main difference is BR500 was rack mount, But SXR80 is desktop, but can be installed on top of rack. <<
😃Ok, will get a Yankees cap in winter time.
Don't wanna criticize the Orbi stuff, it could work somehow as replacement but it is designed for a different purpose.
