Low Cost 10G Router

Wed May 20 16:44:59 UTC 2015

So are the rest of the processes in Mikrotik OS multi threaded? I would
hope so to take advantage of 36 cores!

What is up with all of these network vendors not supporting more than one
core in their OS? I just don't get it.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Josh Baird <joshbaird at gmail.com> wrote:

> The BGP daemon on the CCR routers is not multi-threaded; it only will use
> one core.
>
> Josh
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  So this new $1295 Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM  has a 36 core Tilera CPU
>> with
>> 16GB of ram. Each core is running at 1.2Ghz? I assume that Mikrotik is
>> multicore in software, so why does this box not outperform these intel
>> boxes that everyone is recommending? Is it just a limitation of ports?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > I've seen serious, unusual performance bottlenecks in Mikrotik CCR, in
>> > some
>> > > cases not even achieving a gigabit speeds on 10G interfaces.
>> Performance
>> > > drops more rapidly then Cisco with smaller packet sizes.
>> > >
>> > >  -mel beckman
>> >
>> >
>> > Folks often forget that Mikrotik ROS can also run on x86 machines.....
>> >
>> > Size your favorite hardware (server) or network appliance with
>> appropriate
>> > ports, add MT ROS on a CF card, and you are good to go.
>> >
>> > We use i7 based network appliance with dual 10g cards (you can use a
>> quad
>> > 10g card, such as those made by hotlav).
>> >
>> > with a 2gig of ram, you can easily do multiple (4-5 or more full bgp
>> > peers), and i7 are good for approx 1.2mill pps.
>> >
>> >
>> > Best of luck.
>> >
>> >
>> > Faisal Imtiaz
>> > Snappy Internet & Telecom
>> >
>>
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