I am planning the rollout of roughly 2500 MT devices with level 4 licenses into a secure network environment that is audited annually for security compliancy. One of the requirements that must be maintained is to have software/ OS support (in the form of updates, new versions and/or hotfixes) throughout the lifecycle of the device.
We are planning a 7 year service life for these devices.
I need to get a feeling for how long we will have update support under the current license model.
I’ve read everything I can in regards to Licensing:
Primarily, http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License
I do understand that when you purchase a routerboard or level 4 license you have upgrade rights to the end of the next version. So right now I would get v5.21 and would have upgrade rights to the end of v6.x. This doesn’t exactly equate to a period of time.
I have owned MT licenses and devices for the better part of a decade and haven’t needed to repurchase licenses, but I haven’t had a requirement to keep those devices up to date either.
Can someone help me convert this into a period of time (i.e. ~4 years)?
Is there a published ROS product /feature roadmap that could help me determine this?
With a Cisco product I can expect a 10 or 15 year product life cycle for the hardware and IOS updates. I’m trying to come up with an equivalent on the MT side.
If I can’t get update support for the projected lifespan we will need to consider another product.
Thanks!
just include one more license into the cost =)