Mikrotik Routers rock– Cheap, awesome and beats Cisco at same price

Mikrotik Routers rock– Cheap, awesome and beats Cisco at same price

by Malik korrich ~ vendredi 17 février 2012

Working at Tulip Telecom has his own charm, you get your hands on an array of devices and lots of research . Well, i got my hands on Mikrotik routers, i have been working on them for a considerable amount of time (more than 6 months) and they are awesome. Here’s what i like in them -

• Awesome Router OS
• Extensive IP accounting which can segregate and display bandwidth utilization by IP,vlan,interface,source,destination .. and even more..you name it it has it.
• 3G modem/VPDN support.
• Extensive Queue and filter support, with ability to use burst limits and can be extended on individual interfaces, vlan etc. its a full fledged firewall provided you know how to use it.
• Wi-Fi support.
• Can do Email, SMS/SMS gateway..Hell..you can even run a PHP server inside Router OS
• Supports MPLS , BGP, OSPF, Multicast ,DHCP
• Netflow server
• Packet capture, Wi-Fi snooper, packet capture can be opened using wireshark
• Scripting support to insane levels
• Hardware encryption
• Easy to deploy
• Stable..and Cheap
• and much much more..

I would prefer it over a DD-WRT/Tomato enabled Linksys any day on a tight budget :) If only people knew about it..then i guess,picture would have been different for Cisco