I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you
have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full
routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor.
x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a
Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing
tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have
a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great.
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
Operations Manager
Phoenix Internet
On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote:
Steve,
I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting
a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also
the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations
that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able
to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you
are doing, and/or what you are planning for.
Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc.
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> – 314-735-0270 –
www.linktechs.net <http://www.linktechs.net>
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*Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the
right fit for our network and budget.
I dont fully understand the licensing tiers
Is there a sizing chart on these?
Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch
models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in
reliability?
It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as
management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers:
our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF
internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps
projected need through the next couple of years.
Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150
A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps
rate plans) wifi capable.
If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward
replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP
procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models.
I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness,
how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream
and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that.
The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and
community support availability within the industry. (this
consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative
failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain,
support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the
picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also
a primary consideration for support staff.
I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it,
anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it.
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