Buying MikroTik equipment in the USA starts with confirming the exact model, available quantity, shipping expectations, and warranty process. This guide explains what to ask before ordering and how Link Technologies, Inc. connects hardware purchasing with RouterOS support and network engineering services.
Selecting a MikroTik Cloud Core Router requires matching interface capacity, processing resources, and deployment requirements to the network’s actual workload. This article compares six CCR platforms for backbone connectivity, aggregation, copper access, quiet installations, and server-integrated routing. Learn how Link Technologies, Inc. can help evaluate hardware, validate configurations, and plan a reliable deployment.
As ISP networks grow, a full-mesh BGP design quickly becomes difficult to manage, resource-intensive, and prone to operational complexity. This post explains how BGP route reflection reduces internal peering requirements, centralizes policy control, and provides a scalable foundation for MikroTik RouterOS networks. It also compares route reflectors, full-mesh designs, and confederations to help operators choose the right architecture for their network.
BGP route flaps and slow convergence can turn a brief link failure into packet loss, asymmetric routing, and customer-facing service disruption. This article explains a practical MikroTik RouterOS approach to faster BGP failure detection, stable route origination, monitoring, and staged testing—helping ISPs, WISPs, municipalities, and enterprise networks improve routing resilience without creating unnecessary instability.
Manual MikroTik backups often fail when they are needed most, leaving networks exposed to extended outages, configuration loss, and costly recovery efforts. Learn how Link Technologies, Inc. helps organizations automate router backups, version control, and management with Admiral, CloudV3, and custom network engineering services.
Choosing a network consulting partner is about more than technical skill, it requires responsiveness, accountability, documentation, and the ability to scale when your organization needs help most. This article explains how Link Technologies, Inc. combines more than 20 years of practical engineering experience, a staffed support team, a structured help desk process, and an established MikroTik relationship to deliver dependable long-term network consulting. See why customers trust Link Technologies, Inc. for urgent troubleshooting, major infrastructure projects, and ongoing technical guidance.
This project demonstrates how a MikroTik ROSE Data Server (RDS) can run Zabbix directly on RouterOS to monitor a production network with more than 500 devices. Using six 1TB NVMe drives in RAID5, the system is processing approximately 355 monitoring values per second while using only 2GB of RAM and 1.2–2% CPU, showing just how capable the RDS can be as an all-in-one network monitoring and storage platform.
Dennis Burgess is the Chief Technical Officer and a shareholder of Link Technologies, Inc., with more than 20 years of experience designing, building, and optimizing enterprise, ISP, and WISP networks. As a MikroTik Certified Trainer and industry-recognized network engineer, he has helped thousands of organizations solve complex routing, switching, wireless, and RF planning challenges while contributing to the growth of the broadband industry through leadership, consulting, and the development of TowerCoverage.com.
This article examines the growing threat of DDoS extortion campaigns targeting Internet Service Providers (ISPs), drawing on real-world incidents investigated by Link Technologies, Inc. It explains how these attacks differ from ransomware, outlines three practical levels of DDoS defense, and provides actionable strategies that ISPs and network operators can implement to improve resilience against modern large-scale attacks.
Merging two OSPF networks is far more complex than simply establishing a neighbor relationship. Without proper planning, issues such as duplicate Router IDs, overlapping IP address space, improper area design, redistribution loops, and excessive LSA flooding can lead to routing instability and network outages. This article explores the most common challenges, recommended migration strategies, and industry best practices to help ensure a successful OSPF integration.
