Good morning. I have a deep question for the Mikrotik people and the Cisco people.
Let me give you an overview of where we are. Currently we have all of our tower sites using Mikrotik connecting to our core with MPLS/VPLS to our core that is multiple Mikrotik routers using VRRP (I had a core die from power supply failure and our network didn't skip a beet while it was replaced.) The VRRP core then connects to our edge that is a Cisco ASR1001-x that connects to our BGP peers. The reason we went with Cisco was because all the CCR Mikrotik Lagged horribly when doing BGP full tables. We had a Maxxwave router that did fine with the BGP but had crap interface support with Mikrotik not having good drivers for the interfaces. Different MTU for the MPLS caused problems. It appears that now with Mikrotik's CHR fixes the driver problems. the Virtual host deals with the drivers so Mikrotik doesn't have to. All has been fine for a few years... but now the Cisco has reset itself twice in the past week. For whatever reason a reboot on a Cisco = 15-20min down time. We are now needing a VRRP solution for the Edge. So here is the cross roads... Do we get another ASR1001-x and struggle for a while to get a form of VRRP to work between them? Or do we get something like this (https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-SuperServer-5018D-FN8T-Rackmount-10GbE/dp/B01LXUATHB <https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-SuperServer-5018D-FN8T-Rackmount-10GbE/dp/B01LXUATHB> ) and keep it all Mikrotik for ease of training and use? We do not have much experience with Cisco. It takes us quite a bit to configure and change them. is it worth learning and paying the 12x the price for less throughput? Cisco ASR 1001 2.5gbps throughput = $6,680 Cisco Licence for 10gbps throughput = $13,099 Total for 1 Cisco router + Repair of current + 1 Spare = $41,558 vs Mikrotik Supermicro SuperServer 5018D-FN8T + 16G mem + SSD = $986 CHR 10Gbps upload per interface = $95 Total for 2 routers + 1 spare = $3,243 Is Cisco still the better option? would it be better to say use 3 MK routers in VRRP with one spare so 2 can fail and not be a problem? -- David Jones NGL Connection 307-288-5491 ext 702
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