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.co...@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? > -- Eric Harrison Network Services Cascade Technology Alliance / Multnomah Education Service District office: 503-257-1554 cell: 971-998-6249 NOC 503-257-1510
