I know a guy that knows a thing or two about the transport market. ;-)
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "That One Guy" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:06:30 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a Mikrotik friendly consultant lined up for the BGP implementation. Our purpose in BGP right now is to have versatility among our /24 and our extremely mismatched bandwidth between providers. because we are currently statically routed, we are using all our IP4 space on our smaller provider, and forced to NAT the majority of our customers behind some of our bigger providers IP space, I believe we are paying more for the smaller pipe than we are for the much larger one, but we have limited options amongst our high capacity backhaul locations... but that a whole other discussion. I am trying to become familiar with the MT line of products so that the hardware decisions are our own and not solely at the whim of the consultant. The input from this list on hardware bears much more weight on those decisions than that of a consultant. Regarding their line of switches, Im conflicted here, if I stick to using them as a switch is the consensus that they are good or bad? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Burgess < [email protected] > 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] – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM To: [email protected] 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. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
