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Newsletter #43. December, 2012

SXT G-2HnD

We are glad to introduce our first complete AP/CPE for 2.4GHz - SXTG2HnD! It’s powerful 60 degrees 2x2 MIMO 10dbi sector antenna with 1600mW wireless on-board- you can use it as a Sector AP, to make wireless point-to-point links or as a CPE- whatever you prefer! It comes with L4 license, perfect for covering outdoor area for hotspot clients.

The unit is equipped with a Gigabit Ethernet port, so customers can take full advantage of the high speed of dual chain MIMO. It has the same form factor as our popular 5GHz SXT model. More: http://routerboard.com/RBSXTG2HnD

• SXT G-2HnD• R2SHPn• RB1100Hx2• MUM Europe 2013• Fastpath

1600mW 11n HIGH POWER with Gigabit Ethernet

$79

R2SHPn $49The new 2GHz super high power wireless card for long range links and power-ful access points. This is the professional choice for reaching the last mile. 1600mW transmit power for one chain will give you the ability to reach even further than before. Up to 125Mbit throughput is possible with this device!

The card features built-in LED indicators for wireless mode, connec-tion status (connected, searching, disabled), TX and RX activity and wireless signal strength - just looking at the card will help with installation and alignment.

The card comes with a preinstalled industrial grade heatsink, one MMCX connector and nine LED indicator lights. More: http://routerboard.com/R2SHPn

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Newsletter #43. December, 2012

RB1100Hx2

This is a high performance Gigabit Ethernet router for a great price - with a dual core CPU, it can reach up to 1.7 million packets per second and costs as little as $445!

Compared to the AHx2 model, the Hx2 doesn’t support hardware encryption and has 1GB of RAM.

It has thirteen individual gigabit Ethernet ports, two 5-port switch groups, and includes Ethernet bypass capability. 1GB of SODIMM RAM is included. There is one microSD card slot, a beeper, and a serial port.

The RB1100Hx2 comes preinstalled in a 1U aluminium rackmount case, power supply, and power plug, assembled and ready to deploy. More info here: http://routerboard.com/RB1100Hx2

MUM in Croatia, 2013

The biggest MikroTik User Meeting in Europe will take place in March 2013, this time in Zagreb, Croatia! We expect around 1000 visitors in this event. Register early, and the basic tickets are free of charge.

Registration site: http://mum.mikrotik.com

Date: March 14-15, 2013Address: Sheraton Zagreb, CroatiaHotel URL: starwoodmeeting.comHotel Phone: (385) (1) 455 3535

MUM update 2012

We had twelve MUM events this year, our largest number ever. The MikroTik User Meeting is the best way to quickly learn RouterOS, watch presentations of other users about their use of MikroTik devices, their experience, tips, tricks, and even feature workshops.

The biggest MUM events were in Indonesia (1105 people), Poland (750 people) and Brazil (700 people). See presentation videos on Tiktube, slides in our Wiki, and photographs in the Gallery.

$445

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Newsletter #43. December, 2012

Fastpath

RouterOS v6 introduces an exciting new feature which dramatically increases throughput of your routers! Supported RouterBOARDs show up to three times higher throughput compated to v5! Fastpath allows forwarding packets without additional processing in the Linux kernel. It improves forwarding speed significantly. Basically this feature allows a significant increase in throughput backhaul style configurations.

For Fastpath to work, interface support and specific configuration conditions are required. The packet will be forwarded in Fastpath only if source and destination interfaces support Fastpath. See the list of supported interfaces.

Currently RouterOS has the following Fastpath handlers: ipv4, traffic generator, mpls, and bridge.

With RouterOS updates we plan to add more Fastpath support for other types of features, for example bridge and forwarding filters of certain types. Fastpath works automatically if all conditions are met. If you have no firewall rules (or, in future versions, only have supported kinds of firewall rules) connection tracking will be turned off automatically and Fastpath will kick in. This will result in throughput speed increase of several times. For this to work, we have made the “connection tracking” setting to be “auto” by default.

In upcoming RouterOS v6rc7, you will be able to see if Fastpath is currently active in the “ip settings” menu and in Winbox toolbar.

As of RouterOS v6rc6, Fastpath is used when hardware supports it, and:

• no firewall rules are used• no queues are used• src interface is not a bridge or bonding port,• dst interface is only-hw-queue,• your install contains no vrrp, mesh, metarouter

interfaces• sniffer, torch or traffic generator ar all off

Read more about Fastpath in our manual:http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path

See the below table for speed comparison between v5 and v6. We also tested RB1100AHx2 and it showed up to 1.9x speed increase.

RouterOS v6 performance increased

RB2011 pps throughput 64 byte 512 byte 1518 bytebridging RouterOS v5 151000 145300 102500bridging RouterOS v6 fastpath 270000 232000 122000 (port max)times faster 1.79x 1.60x > 1.19xrouting v5 RouterOS v5 128800 126500 96100routing v6 RouterOS v6 fastpath 227000 210000 122000 (port max)times faster 1.76x 1.66x > 1.27x

RB750GL pps throughput 64 byte 512 byte 1518 bytebridging RouterOS v5 97000 90400 78200bridging RouterOS v6 fastpath 194000 178000 81200 (port max)times faster 2x 1.97x > 1.04xrouting v5 RouterOS v5 66400 65000 52000routing v6 RouterOS v6 fastpath 183700 167000 81200 (port max)times faster 2.77x 2.57x > 1.56x