I admit that I'm biased against Mikrotik. It's good for what it is, but it's value is primarily in its price / flexibility. It's not exactly...telco/carrier grade, or however you want to put it. It's fine as edge gear, but, not what I'd put in a core role like this.
Perhaps in terms of getting it up and running, you may be quicker with something that you know and have a good feel for--ie intel hardware running Mikrotik. However, in terms of reliability, uptime, and scalability, (and I'd assume configuration options) Redback is the way to go. If you want something that is a little more flexible, go Cisco (but, you'd pay more for comparable performance). Price wise, Redback's are very attractive and very easy to get spare equipment for. Plus, you get _good_ hardware. Not "throw CPU cycles at it and keep some extra boxes in the closet for when it chokes good"; I mean "swap out failed power supplies / Ethernet cards / CPUs without any downtime" sort of good. Using PCs / Mikrotik is good when you can't get your hands on good gear at a reasonable cost. That's not the case in this situation... -Clint Ricker Kentnis Technologies ps...Please don't turn this into a flame war :). I realize people here love Mikrotik, and it has its purposes. However, in terms of field tested performance and reliability for PPPoE, Mikrotik is a PC based platform that has relatively few PPPoE deployments running under relatively light loads whereas Redback had a really large install base for high volume PPPoE termination and generally proved itself to be a very solid and scalable platform. On Feb 7, 2008 8:40 PM, Eric Muehleisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Redback is untouchable in terms of PPPoE aggregation. Cisco is really > the only other Router out there that is of Redback's caliber. We > currently terminate close to 15,000 subscribers using a Redback SE 400. > Attached is our current CPU usage. > > > > -Eric > > > rabbtux rabbtux wrote: > > All > > > > I'm in the process of moving over to another upstream provider. I'm > > working with them closely to get service to my county PUD system that > > uses pppoe tunnels for virtually all end user connections. ( I know > > that I can get a vlan, but the cost is prohibitive at the moment) > > > > So, I'm their first beta tester in my area and they have this used > > Redback router. First there were problems that were to be solved with > > a firmware upgrade, now they have a hardware failure without a spare. > > I'm not familiar with this router at all, but discussed it with their > > sysadmin. > > > > Apparently the need is for something that can handle 2000 sessions and > > has full 100Mbps NICs and can support that speed. I'm not a pppoe > > expert, but would a decent PC, with 4/8GB of RAM and mikrotik SW > > installed handle something like this??? Butch? or other MT experts? > > Or is this requirement way out of the MT league? > > > > For my own reasons, I want to get them going, promptly! Any > > suggestions are greatly appreciated!! > > > > Marshall > > Rabbit Meadows Technology > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
