The war started 5 years ago in Orlando when Mike Ford was removed from the MUM and was told that MikroTik had no interest in a working relationship with UBNT. At that time UBNT was only focused on miniPCI radios and trying to have an open/working relationship with MikroTik/StarOS. I think after that, Robert has looked at MikroTik in the same manner Apple looked at Adobe. At first they worked together. Once that tie was broken, they looked at ways to not only compete, but how to truly create products that are what the customers want without being clunky. I praise UBNT for this and they have made some really kick-ass products since then. Putting their router in the same class as even MikroTik at this time is a bit of a rush. Once the product line has matured, I'm sure they will be an option that is definitely worth looking at and will compete with MikroTik, and they are not far from it.
Regards, Chuck On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]>wrote: > At 9/14/2012 11:38 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > >They are focusing on their core product (wireless). The team there has > >not been taken to any other projects. Rather, the income from the > >wireless has generated enough profits that they can hire NEW teams in > >order to be able to expand their product lines. > > > >And why not? A router is a perfect fit. So now we have: > > > >* Wireless Equipment > >* Switch that can power equipment > >* Router > >* Hotspot equipment > >* Hi-Cap Backhaul > > > >Really, Ubiquiti is staged to clean-up the WISP market. They are a > >one-stop shop. They make equipment and make equipment that works well. > > Another way to say it: This is war, MikroTik is their enemy, and > they've taken the gloves off! > > For a while there was detente between Califonia and Latvia. MikroTik > owned the router space, while Ubiquiti owned the packaged radio and > antenna space. Sure there was some overlap, but hybrid integrations > like UbTik were natural. > > Then MikroTik underpriced UBNT with its SXT radios. So now UBNT is > fighting back big time. The winner, of course, is the > customer. More bang, fewer bucks. > > MikroTik, of course, has not finished playing its cards. CCR is > going to be interesting, basd on the 36-core Tilera processor. If > they can keep RouterOS stable on that, then it will move into new markets. > > I am not concerned about the limits of software-based routing. If I > were Cisco, I'd be worried! New processors have a lot of speed and > I/O capability. There are some high end applications where hardware > acceleration is needed, but that's a narrow, if lucrative, > market. As far as features are concerned, Linux has a pretty good > set of capabilities already, and keeps accreting more into its GPL > ecosystem. The proprietary stuff is the polish, like the UI. > > I am not happy, for instance, with how RouterOS supports MEF Carrier > Ethernet. I don't think they've heard of it yet. The raw pieces are > probably there but assembling it onto an interface is a real > puzzle. Nor does it seem to be on UBNT's radar, though it's a huge > market. Maybe they've noticed how cheap those switches are and just > don't want to compete in that space. > > But it's not as if EdgeOS is being written from scratch. Nor were > AirOS or RouterOS. They're all swimming in a GPL pool. The trick is > to integrate it and match it to the hardware. > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >
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