MikroTik produces networking and internet connectivity devices. The brand’s best-known products are MikroTik Wi-Fi routers and wireless broadband devices for Wireless ISP.

Operational in almost every country, the company is from Latvia, based in Riga. MikroTik’s experience in developing hardware and routing systems highly compatible with the most popular industry standards led to the creation, in 1997, of the RouterOS software.

MikroTik routers and software

These instruments are characterised by stability, high controllability and flexibility for all types of routers and interfaces developed on the Linux kernel. Thanks to RouterOS, any PC or MikroTik RouterBOARD can become a dedicated router.

Since 2002, the company has been manufacturing hardware under its own brand, called RouterBOARD. Today, the company boasts a portfolio of over 160 products.

MikroTik branded software is developed with the following features:

• 802.11a/b/g/n/ac support;
• custom Nv2 TDMA protocol;
• Stateful firewall, tunnels;
• STP bridging with filtering;
• WDS and Virtual AP;
• HotSpot for Plug-and-Play access;
• RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS routing;
• Remote WinBox GUI and Web admin;
• high availability with VRRP;
• interface bonding;
• Telnet/mac-telnet/ssh/console admin;
• configuration and real-time monitoring;
• 3G/LTE support;
• OpenFlow support;
• available with one or more Ethernet ports.