I ported one of our Juniper SRX configs to an EdgeRouter Lite and it was a relatively painless experience. I benchmarked the end results and it would do ~1gbps without breaking much of a sweat. Not bad at all for a <$100 box. We keep some on the shelf, just in case of an emergency. At that price, why not? No large scale and/or long term deployments as of yet, which is where the wheat is separated from the chaff. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
I am interested to hear opinions on Mikrotik and Ubiquiti Networks routing and switching products. I know both hardware providers are widely deployed in WISP networks, but I am less interested in their wireless solutions and more in their wired products.
I know most of their switches and routers are software based, but that might not necessarily be a bad thing since everyone is going to SDN anyways. Their products are 1/10th or less of the cost of the equivalent Cisco/Juniper products.
How stable and feature rich are both of their platforms? How do both of their command line interfaces compare to Cisco or Juniper? Is it easy to train a Cisco tech how to use a Mikrotik or Ubiquiti Networks product?
*Ubiquiti Networks software is based on a version of Vyatta I believe. As many of you know Vyatta was bought by Brocade. I have heard that Vyatta is very Juniper OS like. *Ubiquiti just release a line of switches that have an amazing price and seem to support wire speed switching. Their EdgeRouter is supposedly faster than Mikrotiks solutions. They are also traded on the stock market, and seem to be doing well as a company. http://www.ubnt.com/products/
Mikrotik also seems to make routers and switches. I am not sure what their software is based on, but it does support advanced features such as MPLS. Not sure about their switches, but they seem to be dirt cheap! What is their command line interface like? I couldn't find any financial information on this company, but they seem to be located in Latvia? http://routerboard.com/
Does anyone have any meaningful insight to both companies? Why haven't they made a dent in the switching and router market with their amazing price points? Am I missing something here?
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