The distance between inner sides of the rails is 450mm.
That means, they will need to sit deeper, and the mount has to be more complicated.
Not sexy at all 
Ah, I never measured the distance between inner sides of rails … and was referring to (obviously incomplete) web page for dimensions. Bites me 
Ah, well, seems like I’ll still use third-party managed rack-mount switch and un-sexy small RB (such as hAP ac2) as router (placed on un-sexy shelf built in the same 19" rack) due to low-end switch-chip that is built in RB4011. 
The chip itself supports VLANs.
So the limitations of this switch chip implementation in RB1100 are at some point artificial, or at least not dependant on switch chip only.
Right again. So let’s hope MT fixes this on RB1100AHx4 before launch of RB4011 … then the new unit might become more sexy again
I would say, let’s hope that MT uses this chips differently on RB4011, as it looks more like a design limitation on RB1100, not something that can be fixed.
Hmmm Wonder why they did away with the USB and LCD ? USB is great since the facelifted 2011 for those hard to reach places to reach to just write backup config to.LCD is awesome when you use the thing as a type of “managed” fiber converter as you get stats flowing through ISP offloads without needing to log into a machine somewhere and get SNMP stats from it.Could possible be heat or space related ?
I’d be really interested if they do something with a small form factor like that in the style of the CRS106-1C-5S but replace the RJ45’s with SFP slots.I have lots of sites that I manage that tends to be a mish mash of fiber and wireless handoffs backhauled via AirFiber and each port usually requires it’s own set of shaping/qos.The CRS CPU’s are just too slow to do any sort of useful shaping.
That RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD-IN is deffo making it into my home to replace some WAP’s I got 
Really impressed by the forwarding performance.
according to manual it has 2,4ghz on R11e-2HnD so I assume there is one minipci-e slot underneath?
I’m actually interested to test this router with a full BGP table given the high clock speed and 10 gig port.
Who knows? Could be a diamond in the rough for a border router
The non-WiFi version seems like a polished version of RB1100AHx4 so it should perform similarly … hopefully they polished not only the case but also some functionality (e.g. VLAN support on switch chip level).
I’m especially interested in RB4011 vs CCR1009 on single 10G point to point connection. CCR seems to struggle with that.
The VLANs that the chip support are likely used internally by RouterOS so you can use the ports independently for links and separate networks.
When you configure “ether4” without it being in a bridge, I think RouterOS creates a VLAN of which ether4 is an untagged member and the link to the CPU a tagged member, then in the kernel a VLAN interface is used to talk to ether4. You never get to see this, in your config it is simply ether4 without VLAN.
To be able to support VLANs on ether4, the chip would have to support nested VLANs and the RTL8367 apparently doesn’t.
The switch chips used in the older models support this, although sometimes limited. E.g. the Atheros8227 has limited support, it can support tagged VLANs on external ports in wirespeed switching mode but it cannot support “hybrid” ports on which some VLANs are tagged and one is untagged.
The Atheros8327 fully supports it and it can have such hybrid ports and still do wirespeed switching between ports in all the (visible) VLANs.
LCD is mostly a gimmick for me, e.g. my home RB2011 has a switch and a VDSL modem stacked on top and I cannot see the display. I have disabled it.
However, USB is quite useful. At work I have 2 locations where a 4G stick is plugged in the USB port to serve as a backup link in case the main (VDSL) fails.
It is not working well in all router models, though. The power consumption of these sticks is near the limit and sometimes they crash when the coverage is not very good (hence high transmit power required) and a lot of data is transferred.
I would have liked a USB port with guaranteed 1A output current. But now there is no USB port at all, so nothing to worry about 
I was planning to upgrade my 2011s and 3011s, but the lack of USB and LCD is a deal breaker for me.
I didn’t get the 1100, and it looks I will pass on the 4011 too. Will stick with the 2011 and 3011 untill I can.
edit: fixed model numbers
??
none of them actually exist..
Looks good, never used the USB (this unit does have 512mb on board) and the while the LCD is cool, never really used it accept for show. Might use this for a new 1GB fiber service coming into the area.
Well, not true, I got the 1100 right
Fixed them.
A possible workaround is a mAP-2n serving as an LTE USB bridge or one of the dedicated LTE devices powered by port 10 on the RB4011. Still, given they put a serial port on the RB1100x4 and RB4011 not putting a USB port on is baffling! Is there a header inside one can attach a USB cable to?
I didn’t notice any. If you google 4011 there’s some Russian article with photos of PCB
i think with the rb4011 RM (without wifi) with sfp+ port and costing half than CCR1009 can give a similar-competitive performance in many scenarios
i think
with rb1100ahx4 on the market ccr1009 only justification is SFP+ interface
i think
with rb4011rm ccr1009 is dead
ccr1009 is a very good machine, but today the market has change
the good news
mikrotik is being very competitive (even with their own products)
the important question that remains in the air is
what will be the replacement of ccr1036 / 1072?
in terms of performance with just a little better is enough, one important thing is improving single core performance to achieve better performance with less cores, another important thing is the price, a cut down to 600-700 and some improvement on interfaces giving us 4 X sfp+, and 8 X 5.0,2.5,1.0 multi-gigabit interfaces will be nice upgrade
i agree
i think RB1100AHX4/RB4011 1.4GHZ ARM cortex A15 CPU have better single core performance than Tilera, until now on the field the feelings with rb1100ahx4 have been good, i just can see improvements on the rb4011 with more flash nand and sfp +interface
looks like this rb4011 will be very disruptive