RouterStation PRO case available 12/10/09

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to everyone!

Your industrious friends at Netgate have been working hard over the holiday weekend to bring you some excellent news to start your post-family-food-football-shopping-weekend.   We have a good ETA for you on the RouterStation PRO cases and kits.  (“Finally!” you say.  Yeah, we’re with you.)

December 10, 2009.

If you’ve already indicated interest by following our “I may want one!” link below, we’ll contact you with a few questions (just the case, a kit, a kit with card, pigtails and antennas) and payment options later this week when we recover from our food coma.  Don’t worry – you’re first in line.   In the mean time, if you want to look over the options we’ve collected all the relevant bits into a Ubiquiti Kits category here.

The RouterStation PRO enclosure WILL include a light guide, which raises the price to $40.

The RouterStation PRO KIT which includes the enclosure with light guide, RouterStation PRO board, and a power supply is $149.95 if purchased separately.  Our kit price is $147.95.

Various Ubiquiti cards, paired with the appropriate number of pigtails and antennas are also available on the same category page.

So go crazy!  Buy hundreds, nay, thousands!  That way we’ll be able to order 50,000 light guides from China and drop the price accordingly.  🙂

If you have a burning question, feel free to email us at sales@netgate.com

So what’s next?  How about a 1U rack mount enclosure for the RouterStation PRO?   Stay tuned…

UBNT RouterStationPRO case update #2

Hi,

Thanks for your interest – we’ve had a great response to the Ubiquiti RouterStationPRO case “I may want one!” link on our website. They are being manufactured and we hope to have a more exact ETA for you later this week, but an educated guess would put us at the first or second week of December.

We have made a few changes to the initial design based on your requests and feedback on the prototype cases:

First, there are now NINE SMA sized knockouts for antennas. There are six on the back side and three on the front.   So if you really need nine antenna leads then we’ve got you covered!

Second, we’ve modified the light guide holes to be a light rectangle.  During our tests we found the holes to be just too small to effectively see through.

Third, we’ve moved or removed some of the venting holes to make room for the additional antenna knockouts and laser etched labeling on the box.

On a related subject, we have priced out custom light guides made in the USA and have found they are all in the $10-20 range in small (500-1000 unit) quantities. Yow!  Our intrepid Industrial Designer continues to think and tinker, and it looks like he may have come up with a design in the $6-8 range.    This would normally be a few pennies each if we were making them 50,000 at a time in China, but we’re not there yet.     We will certainly ask for your feedback on this once we post the updated design.

So stay tuned! When we have a better ETA on the RouterStationPRO case and finalized pricing we’ll post it here and on netgate.com.