I apologize for such a newbie question, recently got a contract from a client who is also asking to setup a cloud core router. Im pretty alright handling routerOS however I was wondering if anyone could give me references/articles on what does those hardware specifications mean. Im hoping to identify the number of users it could handle, the traffic, etc.
Which CCR is it?
If you look at the product page, there are Ethernet throughput test results for the devices available there.
https://routerboard.com/CCR1016-12S-1Splus
i think hes confused about the name. There is nothing cloud related about the router, the CPU itself is just a manycore CPU. The correct term is manycore not cloudcore but using the word cloud attracts more attention. So the name of the router should’ve been manycore router or MCR rather than CCR.
This means that you’re better off having many unrelated rules than few related rules as far as performance goes when configuring it. If traffic has to travel back and forth within the CPU, its quite easy to cripple the mesh architecture within the CPU resulting in low throughput.