Since you are considering multiple options, I'd build a decision matrix. You can put down all the requirements, score each option, and then normalize it to give each a final score. After that you can calculate some other things such as throughput per dollar, etc. http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/decision-making-tools/overview/decision-m... Regarding the Mikrotik, there's a difference between Multithreading and Multiprocessing. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
So are the rest of the processes in Mikrotik OS multi threaded? I would hope so to take advantage of 36 cores!
What is up with all of these network vendors not supporting more than one core in their OS? I just don't get it.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Josh Baird <joshbaird@gmail.com> wrote:
The BGP daemon on the CCR routers is not multi-threaded; it only will use one core.
Josh
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
So this new $1295 Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM has a 36 core Tilera CPU with 16GB of ram. Each core is running at 1.2Ghz? I assume that Mikrotik is multicore in software, so why does this box not outperform these intel boxes that everyone is recommending? Is it just a limitation of ports?
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Faisal Imtiaz < faisal@snappytelecom.net> wrote:
I've seen serious, unusual performance bottlenecks in Mikrotik CCR,
in
some
cases not even achieving a gigabit speeds on 10G interfaces. Performance drops more rapidly then Cisco with smaller packet sizes.
-mel beckman
Folks often forget that Mikrotik ROS can also run on x86 machines.....
Size your favorite hardware (server) or network appliance with appropriate ports, add MT ROS on a CF card, and you are good to go.
We use i7 based network appliance with dual 10g cards (you can use a quad 10g card, such as those made by hotlav).
with a 2gig of ram, you can easily do multiple (4-5 or more full bgp peers), and i7 are good for approx 1.2mill pps.
Best of luck.
Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom