Is there any plan to launch a Carrier Grade System ?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi

As Mikrotik is launching new CCR Range of Routers which are excellent performance and economic products, but using it in crucial infrastructure of Data Centre is bit awkward. Since there are some basic features which its lacks to be a Carrier Grade Equipment.

The first and foremost is there is no Dual power supply even in highest end CCR Router . Requesting everybody , if anybody from Mikrotik can clarify these points, so that we can start using Mikrotik at crucial junctures.

Abhishek

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many CCR models now have dual power supplies with redundancy:
http://routerboard.com/CCR1016-12S-1Splus
http://routerboard.com/CCR1009-8G-1S-1Splus

Also the upcoming CCR1072 super router will have them.

What other features do you need ?

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Hi
Presently we are using 2 No.s CCR1036-8G-2S+EM , any smaller configuration router than that will not suffice our purpose .

Features

  1. Dual SMPS ( Mikrotik uses Adapters )
  2. Proper Internal Cooling ( I am not sure if there are sufficient number of fans inside Mikrotik Case )

Do facilitate by providing the configuration for new Router. When this will be available commercially?

Abhishek

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Your CCR platforms are already rapidly approaching Carrier Grade hardware quality, great work Mikrotik :slight_smile:

The only things I can think of for RouterBoard are:

  • Hot swap power supplies
  • Hot swap fans
  • Wire speed forwarding on 10gigabit models

RouterOS still need some improvement, from the top of my head:

  • MPLS Fast Re-Route
  • Better SNMP implementation, BGP4 MIB, SNMP traps for all state changes/thresholds e.g. Trap on high CPU temp, Trap on BGP peer state change, Trap on interface state change, trap on OSPF state changes.
  • More verbose audit trail. Log all configuration changes including the commands typed with the username to Syslog
  • Feature and stability fixes to OSPF and OSPFv3
  • Improved visibility of routing, e.g. view advertised routes, received routes on a per-peer basis, view all L2VPN/L3VPN info (RT) when routes are printed.
  • VRF improvements. Allow to run RouterOS services (Telnet/Winbox/Webfig/SSH/API/PPTP/SSTP) in a VRF, allow RIPv2 as PE-CE protocol, Allow “ip filter” from->to routing tables (e.g. allow more granular filtering on inter-vrf traffic), Allow specification of VRF in RADIUS responses for DHCP and PPP.
  • Follow internet standards closely (e.g. RFC’s) and update existing RouterOS components to follow current standards e.g. DHCP Radius dictionaries.

not really a carrier feature, but a enterprise/service provider feature:

  • VXLAN support (including multicast)

and half of those are probably fixed in RouterOS 7/New Routing… :wink:

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Thanks for all the suggestions!

CCR1072 will have hot swap power supplies

  1. Dual SMPS ( Mikrotik uses Adapters )

We don’t use adapters in the CCR series

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Thank you all.

We are using this router as a Authentication System ( NAS/ Hotspot ) , probably replacing Cisco 7206vxr Routers( ISG ) in future .
Some of the feature is very necessary -

  1. Better SNMP implementation, SNMP traps for all state changes/thresholds e.g. Trap on high CPU temp, Trap on interface state change.

  2. Audit Trail as mentioned .

When do you expect CCR 1072 to be launched ?

Abhishek

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Normis any chance you will be giving the rest of the lineup Dual Power supplies or introducing more models with twin psus ? I’m directly looking at the 1036 range at the moment for a new project and twin psu’s would be very very handy as the sides are very remote for us.

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To add:

Ethernet OAM
Ethernet rings
Multi-device link aggregation
Full, TRUE VRF instances (Not policy routing based) with IPv6 and service support

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Yeah these would all be useful, and all of them are features we currently use on Extreme Networks switches. EAPS/EPRS and MC-LAG are actually the two killer features that keep us using Extreme.

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We use extreme. Every major player supports mlag and erps. Eaps just happens to be really easy to setup. Not without it bugs though.

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mlag rocks