Hi,
Whats the difference between CCR and the RB series? I have RB3011 in my home, a very nice product. I have a customer that need a very reliable router in their home, and I wonder
if the CCR are better, faster etc?
Most answers are below (see Perfomance test results)
http://routerboard.com/RB3011UiAS-RM
http://routerboard.com/CCR1009-8G-1S-PC (lower CCR model)
For home RB3011 is quite enough in 99% cases.
From point of stability - I had RB2011, I have RB951 and CCR1009 at home - all they works stable. 24/7, in winter and in summer.
Choice between RB3011 and CCR should be done on the type of channel of customer (<150-300M or >300M) and additional services he will need on router (like VPNs, QoS etc).
For 1G channels, for example RB2011/RB951 useless.
Also they useless if you need encrypted VPNs with perfomance higher 30Mbit-40Mbit. On CCR1009 I can utilize all 100M internet channel bandwidth for VPNs with AES-256. On RB2011 I could get only 30-40M with 128-bit encoding.
RB3011 faster of course than 2011…
Okay,
He´s not going to use VPN´s and that type of features. It´s an ordinary, but big home with security-cams, automation-system and ordinary movie streams via Apple TV´s.
Maybe the CCR1016-12G it´s a okay router? What I (he) need it is a fast reliable router 
You seem to be willing to insist on CCR. In that case CCR1009 series should be more then enough for home use. Take a closer look at CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+PC model- PC stands for “passive cooling”; no fans- no noise.
If money is not a problem then buy most expensive one 72 core CCR 
I like the CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ because it has dual (redundant) power supplies and dual (redundant) FANs.
Also the nice touchscreen on the front.
Additionally you should buy a good switch to get to the requested number of ethernet ports, when more than
available on the router, from another company (MikroTik don’t make good switches).
But of course it will be way overkill for the usual home, even a big one.
if MT make “silent” eg “-PC” version of CCR1072 that would be funny option, perhaps
same about new 100Core(ARM arch)Tilera chip.
I am not so familiar with PoE switches using the “el cheapo method”… we have lots of PoE switches but all for 802.3af standard PoE.
Recently we have installed one 5-port Ubiquiti Toughswitch. It does the job, but the features don’t impress me. In your case I would
probably use 2 switches, one for the “el cheapo PoE” stuff and another one with or without PoE for the remainder of the network.
I would go with the RB3011. Properly configured, it will be perfect, and lowest power usage of the options.
I had a CCR1016-12G in my home rack until 2 months ago when I replaced with with a RB3011. I used the CCR1016 as an upgrade to an aging cisco router in my datacenter.
I’ve been very happy with the RB3011. It does quite well, even being mounted in my 102º garage rack.