MikroTik has a new PoE switch. The MikroTik CRS418-8P-8G-2S+RM is a new generation of switches from MikroTik designed to offer more performance and capabilities in a single device. We missed this announcement, but we have a really cool preview of something coming next week at the bottom of this.
MikroTik CRS418-8P-8G-2S+RM Launched
The MikroTik CRS418-8P-8G-2S+RM is a 16-port 1GbE switch with two SFP+ ports. Many will want 2.5GbE PoE these days, but there are so many 100M and 1GbE PoE devices that this is a common market segment. MirkoTik is using a Qualcomm IPQ-8072 Arm CPU and a Marvell 98DX226S switch chip.
The second set of eight 1GbE ports has IEEE 802.3af/at PoE and PoE+ support with up to 150W total power budget.
There are also two SFP+ 10GbE ports.
Management of the RouterOS 7 switch is provided by the console port as well as a dedicated management port.
In what has become a MikroTik tradition, there are also two power supplies for redundancy.
One of the biggest selling points of this is that MikroTik is pushing the idea of having a single 1U device that for many small businesses can do everything including being the router.
Final Words
The CRS418-8P-8G-2S+RM is trying to do a bit of everything in one box. It has a fast enough CPU to do routing for lower-WAN speed deployments, PoE+, a decent number of 1GbE ports, two 10G SFP+ ports, and even a USB 3 port that is there to allow for a low-cost network storage solution. Hopefully we will get to test one soon.
For the teaser, get ready for this next week on STH. Patrick went to Latvia, to see how MikroTik products are made. STH’s next tour article and video will cover just about everything you could want to know about MikroTik. I saw the draft video, and there was a blurred out product that was not this.
Mikrotik has so may products like this that do PoE and 1gig, they are just really missing the boat in my mind. I have 3gb google fiber, why would I want to limit any endpoint to 1gb if I am purchasing new hardware? I am sure there’s some market and they’ll end up selling some but its its swing and miss for me, they already have products that cover this segment.
Dennis what is the value of a 3GB connection if you are trying to power 16 POE cameras that may never see the light of day as it relates to the internet?
Half of the fun with Mikrotik is seeing what new, weird things they’ve built today.
Reading the spec sheet, this looks like this actually uses a Qualcomm WiFi 6 chipset (IPQ-8072) as a CPU, but doesn’t expose the WiFi in any way. Their performance numbers for this look decent, ~4x faster than the CRS326-24G-2S+IN, for example.
Oh man, I hope it’s a RB5009 form factor switch with 8×2.5 ports with POE and a SFP+ uplink!
All we need is a 16 port switch with a couple of 2.5G, a couple of PoE and 2x SFP+ , the sweetspot for a smart home these days. Yet there are only 3 manufacturers that offer that, while Mikrotik brings out the 100th 1G PoE switch of which the market is saturated.
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Will there be a comprehensive review of this product? including testing on your new Cyperf rig? I’d like to see how much bandwidth it can route in the “real world”.
If it had 2.5-5Gbps POE++ ports, a bunch of 10G RJ45 ports, 2-4 SFP28 or QSFP28 slots, or could route at 10Gbps or more it might be worth it – but this really offers very little that the SEVEN year old CRS328-24P-4S+RM doesn’t, while losing the extra 16 ports of POE and the extra two 10G SFP+ slots of the older model. And it’s sold at virtually the same price?
Get your act together, Mikrotik!