MikroTik switches are LEGIT!

Part of the journey of building out DatacenterDude's Datacenter is centered around modernizing the networking. As a former certified Cisco user and fan, it was hard to let go of Ol' Faithful, but a new hotness found its way into my arms [racks], and their name is MikroTik.

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► CHAPTERS ►
0:00 Intro
0:52 History, 10GbE, & MicroTik
5:21 Upgrades!
6:30 Who is MicroTik?
8:20 Switch Swap!
8:47 MicroTik User Interface
13:55 Next Steps
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[JBNetwork]

The name in Mikrotik says almos everything of the device:

CRS = Cloud Router Switch (support RouterOS and SwitchOS Dual boot)
309 = 300 Series --- 0 Wireless interfaces 9 Ethernet ports

then you have 1G-8S+IN (1Gb ethernet + 8 SFP+
IN - Indoor.

Example

RB3011-UiAS-RM

RB- RouterBoad
3011 = 3000 series, 0 Wireless Interface, 11 Ethernet

U = USB
i = 1 PoE out
A = AP Licence (level 4)
S = 1 SFP
- RM = Rackmount.

[dan__________________]

I am also a CCNP. Cisco is great and I still really like Cisco, but I have been using Mikrotik for 20 years as well and It has its place in my systems.

[jasonphilbrook]

Mikrotik has been popular in the small ISP world for a very long time. Free software updates, low power consumption (for longer runtime when on battery backup) make them attractive. text config backups, snmp, ssh make it nice to backup and manage.

[ussul]

Mikrotik just works. Great value as well.

[CoreyPL]

I very much like my MikroTiks. In my workplace I use most of the types of devices they offer: LTE antennas for remote office, 60GHz direct antennas for connecting a building where I can't get fiber to, desktop APs, wall mounted APs, multiple rack 48-port switches, SFP+ switches for server backbone+NAS+uplink to slower switches. When you get more familiar with RouterOS they are quite nice to configure.
What I don't like: updates can be hit or miss. Usually everything is fine... until it isn't and you use the rest of your maintenance window to roll back to previous version of firmware.
Manufacturing quality - usually ok, but I did find some packing residue floating inside of 2 switches form the same delivery, so now I just always open all of them to do a visual inspection before installing them. It takes less time than having to climb, for the second time, to the production floor rack cabinet that is hanging 3 meters above your head, because there was some crap in the ports.
Overall, price to performance and possibilities offered is very hard to beat.

[gabrielporto.mikrotik]

MikroTik os awesome. I am a MTCRE guy. I use MikroTik in my apartment and in a lot of customers. I have the same CSS326 in my home and 3 APs. I even use a RB1100ahx4 as my border router and firewall. Could spend a life talking about MikroTik. I even have a review for the CCR1009 8G 1C 1S+ on my channel. Great video btw. You got your self a new sub.

[garbageOnline]

Mtiks do 95% of what cisco does (excluding the proprietary protocols ofc) at a very low cost. RouterOS offers unimaginable capabilities and tools that no other brand has. On top of that you have a powerfull scripting language that actual renders possible, everything you can imagine. I can talk for hours about mtiks but i suggest you go check the manual to see what is really capable of.

[xuxamelo]

Mikrotik powers up small ISPs such as Vodafone Portugal ;).

Actually, CRS3xx, CRS5xx, and some CCR support L3 hardware acceleration almost at wirespeed making CRS317 a beast of a router by a fraction of the price when compared to CISCO, NEC, HP, etc. You can actually spread the entire BGP table by four CRS317 ASIC Switch because their TCAM can handle it! It would be stupid to say that they have their limitations because let's face it They Do! But, so do others. I'm amazed by the route path Mikrotik has taken into the Switch World. Hope they keep adding futures to the Marvel ASIC chips.

[alex]

ZZ Top approves of that beard ;) I was a Cisco loyalist for many years too, I eventually got sick and tired of paying through the teeth for everything Cisco when other vendors were offering the same thing for a fraction of the price, moved over to Unifi and love it

[sidewinder]

Great home DC and fantastic footage – I've just subscribed! Regarding the technical aspects of the CRS309, the Ethernet port serves as an Out-of-Band (OOB) management interface rather than an uplink. This is because the CRS series isn't tailored for Layer 3 (L3) forwarding. While the CRS3xx models do support hardware offloading for some basic L3 features, enabling their use in top-of-rack (TOR) setups for elementary inter-VLAN routing and dynamic route offloading (like with OSPF), they have limitations. Complex configurations, such as specific routing rules, mangle, or firewall settings, are still processed by the CPU. Even though it's a newer ARM model (98DX8208), it lacks sufficient power for more demanding tasks. As for the model names, their length is justified by their descriptiveness. They effectively communicate the main features of each model, streamlining the process of understanding model capabilities without delving into extensive documentation.

[oOignignoktOo]

I used a 8port mikrotik cloud router switch I bought back in 2016 It was a nice piece of kit that I used as a standard home router for 7 years before I upgraded to a hAP ax3. The thing still ran great as a wired router but I needed something that supported 802.11ax to support newer wireless devices on my network.

[robodev]

I just found this channel and I feel like networkchuck's twin lol.

[nikitakipriyanov]

This CSS can use both PoE and DC in the back simultaneously and this way it got dual PSU. (the little 509 should be able to do this too). It will use whichever voltage is higher, and if you make PoE and back-connected PSUs of different voltage, by monitoring voltage you can detect if your primary PSU is disconnected or broken. (I was actually doing that with Mikrotiks.)

[Darkk]

I have several MikroTik CRS series switches at home. They're great for 10 gig networking. The 24 port CRS switch I have is similar to CSS switch except it doesn't have a fan at all. There is a cut out for it but no fan. It went through three hot summers without an issue.

[houndsol]

crs317 1g 16s+ is absolutely fantastic. the fans do not spin up if it's not hot

[sarhtaq]

We run the 317 10gig as core at my work, with a mix of 16, 8 and 5 port Mikrotik as "spine" around the campus, and Cisco SG300/SG350/CBS350 in the access layer.
Works great and as one using the SG300 since 2010 I have yet to have any major issues with either brand.
(2 SG's dead due to lightning strikes in 12+ years is just stuff happening)

[hookenz]

I worked for a wisp for a while and that's where I first was introduced to microtik gear. Its robust and reliable. Best of all, insanely cheap.

[conraadvandenberg]

The CSS326-24G-2S+RM is actually fanless. It has a fan cutout but no fan

[Max]

The CRS326 is a fanless switch, but you can install one if you need.

[mwirigidennis]

Mikrotik is compatible with most networking devices .when employed in radius saver its smother and a monster in networking, from rb 3011, rb 4011, crs series and above shall never disappoint