1 for the Qs, but please followed by the year please!
And perhaps on top a prize range, where this device will be pointed in.
Hopefully they have taken the CPU variant with the high speed encryption engine called MiCA
and up to a maximum of 8 GB or 16 GB ECC RAM would be fine!
Together with the RG953GS-5HnT as an wifi AP it would be a really fine set up for my home network I think.
So it’s pretty much the more powerful / more flexible successor to the 1100 series.
Looks good to me! I had hoped for 4 GB RAM, but of course MT has to take care not to cannibalize its own market for the higher grade models.
Nobody is asking you if you will buy a router with 4 LAN Ports and a Switch with 10 Ports like the
combination I have many times seen, (like this here):
Netgear FVS336Gv2
Netgear GS110T
All is even fine and no one asks for this set up, but if we will buy a MikroTik CCR-1009 router for home usage
and this router comes with 10 LAN Ports, the whole world wants to know why? So what is so special on this
router? Only one device, much power , enough ports, ROS inside and hopefully in the near future all is running
smooth with the ROS version on Tilera´s Tile Gx, but if we buy a no one is accepting this in see more and more.
For an ISP it doesn’t make much sense to use a core router for switching. You rather keep the task for each device as specific as possible and use systems for what they’re best at. The more tasks you offload on a single device the more probable side effects become and of course they make bug tracking a lot more complex as e.g. you can’t just replace switches without also having to change a significant part of your CCR’s config.
I don’t need switches in backbone. I’m fine with wirespeed forwarding of MPLS traffic by CCR. To make this happen all I need is a device with sufficient number of SFP ports for customers and SFP+ ports for backbone ring.
I could be wrong, but given the 9-core CPU, I’m guessing that MikroTik is planning to position this price-wise to replace the one remaining RB1000-series PPC router that they still sell: the RB1100AHx2. If I’m correct, I just have one request for MikroTik:
Please don’t.
At the very least, please don’t discontinue the RB1100AHx2 until after you have a working MetaROUTER implementation on the Tile CPU architecture. (Once that happens and you have a CCR w/ Tile CPU priced between $300-400 USD, then feel free to discontinue it at that point. )