[ALUG] Comparison Between Cisco and Mikrotik Swithes/Routers

Mon Jan 25 10:14:31 EAT 2016

Dear Lomayani, 

Thanks for all the comments you have added on this threads, I was really
wondering why you should have cisco instead of Mikrotik in terms of
performance first, before coming to price and configurations. 

For me if you have a Cisco device and a Mikrotik device both Giganet,
they are all giving same results, good performance, no downtime is
recorded on both of the two two, packets are transmitted well and no
overload 

So now i was asking myself, if performance is best on both, and you can
get Mikrotik at lower price, why should we buy Cisco, and the Cisco type
we are buying in Tanzania are very old 2950, 2960 series. 

To conclude this, i feel we should have a small talk as linux users/
network administrators to have like a capacity building seminars on
Mikrotik devices so as to strengthen people on using Mikrotik devices as
are robust in terms of performance and at low cost. Normally the
trainings given by Mikrotik are very expensive so if there is any
requirements then we can organize how we can do it locally at lowest
cost. 

Many thanks to all who have contributed to this. 

On 2016-01-25 09:57, Lomayani S. Laizer via Linux wrote: 

> For now I dont see why you should use cisco otherwise you are very rich
> 
> * Price per performance is not good. Generally they have robust hardware but for me to buy a single cisco switches to have life of 10yrs, its better to buy 2 extra mikrotik switches for standby if main die after 3 yrs i replace with new standby switch. I have mikrotik routers running more than 5yrs now. Few died because of power issues
> 
> * Cisco firewall capability is not good in their general routers. Mikrotik firewall pretty robust since anything done in linux can be done there
> * I like scripting ability in mikrotik which is not in cisco, so you can customize according to your need
> * 
> * Most people go to cisco because of buliding ipsec vpn or vlan which is are available in other routers or switches but because of laziness to read, they prefer cisco since they had cisco classes at university or ccna. I have seen offices buying cisco 2000 series or 3000s(costs almost more than 2500usd) just for ipsec vpn with maximum of 1mbps speed while that vpn can be configured under mikrotic router which costs around 100usd. Buy five of them configure vpn and put remaining other router as backup in case main dies. then you save more than 2000usd. Imagine that saving for 20 branches
> * 
> * Mikrotik has robust features as cisco (BGP, MPLS and OSPF) only thing missing in routing ISIS which i dont see is the must  as long as you have OSPF
> * Main lack of Mikrotik is ability to have WAN modules like ADSL, STM, VOIP cards and etc. For me its better to buy separate dedicate devices eg pure stm switches which are cheap and connect it Mikrotik via normal Ethernet or sfp
> * Mikrotik lack good testing of the new OS releases, dont upgrade until labeled stable otherwise you can break everything. So i advice dont be so up to date
> 
> Finally to save money sometime you need to move from your comfort zone. Not because you know windows you buy those license(1000+usd) just to run an exchange while you can run over linux under 0usd or because you heard about or learned cisco then you see cisco only as possible soln in routers or switches. Jiongezeni vijana wangu acheni uvivu
> 
> -- 
> Lomayani 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Tauscher via Linux <linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:
> 
> Another thing: Especally if you buy a thumb switch. Have a look on the backplane speed. It should be at least the speed of all ports together. If the switch has expansion slots the backplane speed must be the built in ports plus the maximum speed of the expansion slots. If it is lower the swich might become a bottleneck.
> 
> On 23. Januar 2016 14:12:37 GMT+03:00, Andreas Tauscher via Linux <linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote: 
> 
> On 01/22/2016 03:08 PM, TGH Solutions via Linux wrote:
> Basically what Ismail said. As the saying goes: "No one gets fired for
> buying Cisco". 
> 
> HP-ProCurve (was before 3Com SuperStack) are also great and lightly
> cheaper than Cisco.
> 
> If you buy such an managment capable switch buy an actual model!
> Especially Cisco here are often sold models since 5 years+ EOL. Nomore
> updates, no support, no IPv6, no service simply nothing.
> 
> If you don't use VLANs, trunking/bonding, 802.1x or the snmp monitoring
> features: Don't waste your money for management capable switch. Buy for
> example thumb Netgear switches. Doing exact the same job for a fraction
> of the price.
> And if smart or thumb switch: Gigabit! 100MBit is too slow.
> 
> Andreas
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