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What Is this about? 2 What is Mikrotik? What DOES it DO for ME! What is it s Purpose! What is the BIG DEAL? Why should I care? Does it help my bottom line?
Before we Begin. 3 Dennis Burgess A bit about ME Mikrotik Certified Consultant / Trainer Mikrotik Certified Dude Consultant Author of Learn RouterOS First Mikrotik Book! In the WISP Industry since 2000 Consulting Since 1997 Cisco Certified Microsoft Certified WISP Experience Owned and Operated a WISP Since 2000 Deployed Mikrotik Based Network
4 Link Technologies, Inc! http://www.linktechs.net One of the Premier Mikrotik Consulting Companies in the world! World Wide Consulting Clients Clients from WISP Start-ups to WISPS with over 20,000+ Clients! Support Mikrotik Networks Full Network Support for WISPs and ISPs Support for Mikrotik in the Enterprise! Cisco, Microsoft, Hotspots, Billing Systems, Network Management, Network Troubleshooting, Network Build outs, and General Network Engineering Consulting on Per Hour and Contract basis! Manufacture of the PoweRouter Series of RouterOS Devices www.mikrotikrouter.com Supported/Tested Enterprise & Carrier Grade Mikrotik RouterOS x86 Systems made by Link Technologies, Inc.. Dual Core 3 Gigahertz CPU, 7 GigE Interfaces, Fiber Options, DC Voltage Up to 14 GigE Copper interfaces, Dual 10 GigE, SFP Fiber Options, Dual Power Supplies, up to 8 Xeon Cores.
WHAT IN THE HECK IS IT? 5 Mikrotik creates two main products. Hardware RouterBoard Series of hardware SBC (Single Board Computers) Industrial Design From 1 to 9 Ethernets From built on-wireless Cards up to 4 Wireless Interfaces 802.11x Standards Super Low Cost, most under 200 bucks! Great for smaller sites that don t need expensive and large amounts of traffic under 40 meg.
WHAT IN THE HECK IS IT? 6 Mikrotik creates two main products. RouterOS Software RouterBoard Products Made for Mikrotik Products Routing Software similar to IOS etc.
OK Great, and I should care? 7 For the Engineers No massively complicated Licensing Requirements Super simple interface High capacity Industrial Designs Unbelievable Feature Set! Infinitely Configurable Router No more, Access Concentrator, wireless Bridge, VPN server, router, etc.. 1 ONE DEVICE CAN DO IT ALL
OK Great, and I should care? 8 For the Engineers Unsurpassed Troubleshooting Tools All RouterOS powered Devices have the SAME software, so no can this device do this? If you can dream it, it typically can do it!
OK Great, and I should care? 9 For the Business Owners Cost! Standardization simplifies management costs. Ability to do multiple l tasks on single piece of hardware, means only one box to buy! Ultra Low cost for Lower end systems 9 port 10/100 Router under $249! Wireless Access Points Hotspot Concentrators VPN Servers High End Systems delivering performance over that of systems 10x the cost! Want to pay $1,500 instead of $15,000?
What can Mikrotik Do? 10 For the Engineer Router Up to 10GigE Routing Bandwidth Management Provide QoS (Quality of Service) Multiple Routing Tables 1+ Million Route Tables Dynamic Routing Protocols such as BGP/OSPF Multiple Routing Tables Policy Based Routing Send some customers out one connection vs. another Send some customers though adult filter SFP Fiber Interfaces
What can Mikrotik Do? 11 For the Engineer Firewall Full Stateful Firewalling Layer 7 Filtering Bridge Filtering Full Source and Destination NAT system Change of TCP MSS Packet / Connection marking Built in Peer 2 Peer Traffic Identification Connection Limiting for multiple Types of traffic
What can Mikrotik Do? 12 For the Engineer Tunnels VPN Concentrator PPTP/L2TP IPSEC Encryption OpenVPN Tunnels up to AES-256 Ethernet over IP (Bridged Tunnels) Bridging Firewalling on Bridged Ports STP and RSTP
What can Mikrotik Do? 13 For the Engineer In the ISP or WISP PPPoE Access Concentrator 5k PPPoE Sessions on One Unit! Routing at GigE Speeds Access Point or CPE Device Low Cost Access Points and CPEs Backhaul links at 70+ megabits unlicensed! Full Duplex Backhauls Routed / Failover Configurations
What can Mikrotik Do? 14 For the Engineer In the ISP or WISP DNS Caching System Bandwidth Test Server and Client Real-time Traffic Monitor (torch) Wireless and Ethernet Sniffer Radius Client for many systems IPv6 Support OSPF and BGP Support
What can Mikrotik Do? 15 For the Engineer Hotspots Full Hotspot Management System - Controller 3000+ Hotspot users can be supported on one unit Multiple types of hotspots can exist on the same hardware Billing System for Hotspot Ability to pay on-line for hotspot services! Integrated though your Merchant account! Many other Options you can t think of needing! Dynamic Policy Based Routing Connection Matching and Random Load Balancing
What can Mikrotik Do? 16 For the Business Owners Was that a BIG list? 99% of your network hardware, such as routers, bridges, access points, hotspot controllers, hotspot bll billing system etc can be REPLACED with lower cost, industrial RouterOS systems! The Interface is the SAME on all of them! Lower cost of ownership Lower support costs
What can Mikrotik Do? 17 Wireless Access Points Use not only in PtMP but as well as P2P Hotspots Coffee Shops / Hotels Built in User Manager Software for on-line account setup Clients Long Rang Clients Full Duplex Links Encryption / Custom Non-Standard Options
What can Mikrotik Do? 18 Wireless Routerboards suited for outdoor usages. Existing Units out on Towers for 3+ years in some cases some more! Full Routers Bandwidth Control / Traffic Shaping / QoS All right at the AP / CPE! Ability to perform dynamic routing right on Access Points and CPEs Gives you customer multi-path redundant links Allows you to route other customers though backup customer connections.
What can Mikrotik Do? 19 Network Monitoring System ( The Dude) FREE Built in Network Monitoring System Graph SNMP and Bandwidth Usages Graphical Representation of Network Outage Information Notification System E-mail / SMS / Text Messaging / Sounds DID I MENTION IT IS FREE?
Why Should I care? Business Owners that is.. 20 CASE Study Homeland security network Build a high capacity network for over 800 security cameras, across 32 sites with between 150 and 1 Gigabit of usable bandwidth. 40 GigE Wireless Links Lots of Moto 150 and 300 meg Links Min of 5 Ethernet Ports on each site Integrate with Existing Police / Fire / FBI systems
Why Should I care? B i O h iis.. Business Owners that 21
Why Should I care? B i O h iis.. Business Owners that 22 CASE Study Homeland security network Setup p Complete p network in House Configured All hardware / Routers Max 12 Hops though Network 994 meg Throughput TCP
Why Should I care? Business Owners that is.. 23 Using Cisco Hardware Powered by Cisco 32 Routers Estimated Costs $350,000+ 000+ Firewalls Using PowerRouters Powered by RouterOS PowerRouter ou e 732 Under $45,000 What do you Save? $300 000+ $125,000 $300,000+ Up to $425,000
Why Should I care? Business Owners that is.. 24 Using Cisco Hardware Programming Costs Over 24k for 3 Engineers! Using PowerRouters Programming Costs 6k for 1 week of On- Site Engineering!
What We Covered 25 Mikrotik is a Very Powerful System From Low Cost Entry Level Routers To High-End Enterprise Class Systems Pricing Starting at $200 Up to Fiber Interfaces / Dual Quad Core Systems Support Several US based Support Companies Free E-Mail Support
What We Covered 26 Training On-Line Training Courses Onlinemikrotiktrainging.com g We also do on-site customized training Learn RouterOS Book at routerosbook.com Hardware Number of stocking vendors in the US Mikrotikrouter.com for more information
Q&A Section 27 Questions? Dennis Burgess Mikrotik Certified Trainer / Dude Consultant Link Technologies, Inc Office: 314-735-0270 E-Mail: Support@linktechs.net t