Draft:MikroTik
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| Company type | Limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Networking hardware |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Riga, Latvia |
| Products | Routers, Firewalls |
Number of employees | 70 |
| Website | www.mikrotik.com |
Mikrotīkls Ltd., known internationally as MikroTik, is a Latvian manufacturer of computer networking equipment. It sells wireless products and routers. The company was founded in 1995, with the intent to sell in the emerging wireless technology market. As of 2007, the company has more than 70 employees.
RouterOS
The main product of MikroTik is a Linux-based operating system known as MikroTik RouterOS. It lets users turn selected PC, MIPS, or PowerPC based machine, into a full-featured router allowing features such as firewall rules, VPN Server and Client, bandwidth shaper, QoS, wireless access point and other commonly used features for routing and connecting networks together. The operating system is licensed in escalating levels, each releasing more of the available RouterOS features as the level number rises. Licensing is fee based and escalates with the released features. There is a software called Winbox which provides a sophisticated GUI for the RouterOS operating system. The software also allows connections via FTP and telnet, and SSH shell access. There is also an API wich allows creating customised applications for management and monitoring.
RouterBOARD
The RouterOS, combined with their hardware product line, known as MikroTik RouterBOARD, is marketed at small to medium sized wireless Internet service providers, typically providing broadband wireless access in remote areas.
Applications
There are numerous WISPs in the Czech Republic that employ Mikrotik wireless technologies to compete with traditional ISPs.
One of the companies using MikroTik technology is TravelNetCon - international high speed Internet HotSpot mediator.
Features
In the late years specifically, the RouterOS became an applications that can be used by medium size to large ISP, by putting beside OSPF [[1]] and BGP [[2]] also support for VPLS/MPLS [[3]].
All in one, RouterOS is a versatile system, and wireless side of the router is very well supported by Mikrotīkls Ltd., both trough a forum and a wiki [4] providing assorted and tematic examples of configurations.
The software provides support for virtually all the network interfaces that the Linux_kernel 2.6.16 supports, excepting wireless, where the Atheros and Prism are the only supported chipsets, as of 3.x version.
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