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About MikroTik
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Positioning
Low cost products
• Low cost motherboards, standard and high power 802.11a/b/g/n piggybacks
Low end customers
• Sale via distributors and web
• 14 days warrantee (intended to cover DOA only)
• No RMA process
• No lightning protection
Add on costs and features
• The radios are shipped supporting standard configurable regulations as FCC,
ETSI etc. and they work with 5 and 20MHz channel
• Licenses are sold for opening the unit to networking features, high power, full
4.9-6.0 GHz band and additional channel spacing
• One year warrantee cost extra 30% on price, only available in certain countries.
Positioning
MikroTik maintains a low cost strategy via
• Low cost products made in China
• Extensive web activities: services, communities, blogs and sales
• Limited warranty
• 14 days warrantee only
• No RMA process. Since unit's value is lower than the shipping costs
the distributor gets $30 credit per every failed unit
Offering
• Full product
• Components for the SI/VAR to assemble in his workshop
• Only software via web, fom where they can download the activation
key. They can install this software in standard PCI 802.11 b/g/a
cards (extra cards, may be NO MikroTik)
MikroTik Wireless Portfolio
Wireless features:
• 802.11a/b/g available in 2.4 and 5Ghz
• Throughputh
• PtP – In Point to Point conditions
– Up to 20 Mbps
• PtMP – Point to Multi Point
– Only to 10 Mbps/sector
• Coverage
• PtP - Up to 25 km Point to Point environments
• PtMP – Up to 8 km in Point to Multi Point environmets
• Customers by sector
• Up to 100 clients in 20 Mhz channels
MikroTik Wireless Portfolio
Important information:
• No ATPC, the operator needs to go to each customer in terms
to adjust the radio’s power manually.
• Encryption by software (depend on wireless board)
• Only 2,000 packets/second
• IF we activate the Bandwidth management the processor
performance dump to 50%.
• In 2.4 Ghz the system requires a minimum of -75dbm to work
normally..
• Radios operating bad quality environment interferes with
radios under standard operation conditions.
• Operation under relay conditions, the performance decrease
10 times.
MikroTik Wireless Portfolio (cont.)
• RouterOS SW features
• WEP, WPA, WPA2 encryption
• Access control list by MAC address
• IP routing, NAT, Routing, DHCP
• DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection)
• VAP (Virtual Access Point)
• RouterOS has 4 license levels (3-6) ranging from 45$ to 250$
• Common architecture :
• Main board with PCI slots using Ubiquity Cards (NO MikroTik)
• Different PCI cards supporting different frequencies and Tx power
• Based on Atheros chipset; not adding much intelligence to the basic chipset
Products Comparison 11
PtMP – Until 6 km
QoS 1 classification method (Per service) 4 classification methods (Per service, per
CIR/MIR per CPE per direction TOS, per VLAN and per Port)
CIR/MIR per CPE per redirection
Traffic shaping with graceful degradation
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Products Comparison (cont.) 12
Security WEP, WPA, WPA2 encryption, AES/ FIPS 197 processed by hardware, no
processed by software, aprox 25% performance degradation
degradation. User authentication
Access List Access list
Broadcast/multi cast limiters
VLAN support Hybrid (Vlan and not Vlan packages Trunk, access, QinQ and hybrid.
allowed)
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MikroTik RB & RIC
Win with and Watch out from …
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Win With …
Alvarion Advantages
• Company financial strength & leadership
• Mature, proven, best-of-breed product
• Over 400,000 links installed
• Product robustness & reliability
• Superior range and capacity
• Better voice & video support
• Better security
MicroTik weaknesses
• Low cost = low reliability
• Waterproof enclosure, limited warranty, no RMA, no lightning protection…
• Low cost = Inferior features and performance
• Range, capacity, QoS, security, Voice & Video support
Thank You