CRS510-8XS-2XQ-EE

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The MikroTik CRS510 is a versatile and cost-effective 100 Gigabit Cloud Router Switch. It's designed to bring high-speed 25 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit fiber connectivity to server rooms, data centers, and advanced home labs, balancing performance, features, and price.

🚀 High-Speed Fiber Connectivity

  • 8x 25 Gigabit SFP28 Ports: This is a key feature, offering a high density of 25GbE connections.3 These ports are also backward compatible with 10 Gigabit and 1 Gigabit SFP/SFP+ modules, providing flexibility to integrate with existing infrastructure or various high-speed devices like servers, storage, or other switches.

  • 2x 100 Gigabit QSFP28 Ports: These are the ultra-fast uplinks, enabling blazing-fast 100 Gbps connections to a network core or other high-bandwidth devices. Like the 25G ports, QSFP28 ports are versatile and can often be broken out into multiple lower-speed links (e.g., 4x 25G or 4x 10G) using appropriate breakout cables.

  • High Throughput: The CRS510 is built for non-blocking performance, with a total switching capacity of 800 Gbps (for Layer 1 throughput) and a forwarding rate that can handle hundreds of millions of packets per second. This ensures that even under heavy load, data flows efficiently.

  • Marvell Prestera Switch Chip: It utilizes a powerful Marvell Prestera 98DX4310 switch chip that performs the heavy lifting of Layer 2 switching and hardware-offloaded Layer 3 routing, ensuring wire-speed performance for common network tasks.

🧠 Intelligent Network Management & Routing Capabilities

  • RouterOS v7 (License Level 5): This provides full Layer 3 routing capabilities, advanced firewalling (with hardware offloading for ACLs), QoS, VLANs (802.1Q), link aggregation (LACP), MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group), Jumbo Frames, and various VPN protocols. While its single-core 650 MHz MIPSBE CPU is not designed for complex, software-intensive routing at 100GbE speeds, it's very capable for managing the switch and performing basic Layer 3 functions with hardware acceleration.

  • 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Port: This dedicated port is typically used for out-of-band management or for initial setup, allowing you to access the switch even if there are issues on the high-speed data ports.

  • Console Port: An essential tool for network administrators, providing direct access for troubleshooting and initial configuration.

🛡️ Reliability & Powering Options

  • Dual Hot-Swappable Redundant Power Supplies: A critical feature for ensuring high availability and minimizing downtime in server rooms and data centers.11 If one power supply fails, the other seamlessly takes over.

  • Multiple Powering Options: Beyond the dual AC inputs, the CRS510 also supports PoE-in (802.3bt) on its 10/100M Ethernet port, and has a DC jack and a 2-pin terminal for versatile power input, enhancing redundancy and deployment flexibility.

  • Active Cooling: Equipped with two cooling fans to maintain optimal operating temperatures, especially under heavy load.

  • Compact Rackmount Form Factor: Designed for easy installation in standard 1U server racks, fitting well into dense networking environments.

  • Wide Operating Temperature: Can operate reliably in a broad range of temperatures, typically from -40°C to +70°C.

🏢 Common Use Cases

  • Data Center Access/Aggregation Switch: Ideal for connecting racks of high-performance servers, storage systems, and virtualized environments that require 25GbE connectivity, with 100GbE uplinks to the data center core or spine.

  • High-Speed Enterprise Network Backbone: For larger organizations needing to aggregate multi-gigabit and 10 Gigabit traffic from various departments or network segments and uplink to a 100 Gigabit core.

  • Internet Service Provider (ISP) / WISP Core or Edge: Can be used by ISPs to aggregate high-speed customer connections, serve as a peering point, or for building out their backbone infrastructure with 25G and 100G links.

  • Homelab / Prosumer 100 Gigabit Network: Provides a cost-effective entry point into 100 Gigabit networking for enthusiasts and advanced users building high-performance home labs.

  • High-Density Fiber Distribution: Where many 25GbE connections need to be consolidated into a 100GbE uplink, for example, connecting multiple racks or sections of a building over fiber.

The MikroTik CRS510 is a cost-effective and feature-rich 100 Gigabit Cloud Router Switch that brings enterprise-grade performance and reliability (with redundant power) to a wider range of users and organizations, making high-speed networking more accessible.16

The MikroTik CRS510 is a versatile and cost-effective 100 Gigabit Cloud Router Switch. It's designed to bring high-speed 25 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit fiber connectivity to server rooms, data centers, and advanced home labs, balancing performance, features, and price.

🚀 High-Speed Fiber Connectivity

  • 8x 25 Gigabit SFP28 Ports: This is a key feature, offering a high density of 25GbE connections.3 These ports are also backward compatible with 10 Gigabit and 1 Gigabit SFP/SFP+ modules, providing flexibility to integrate with existing infrastructure or various high-speed devices like servers, storage, or other switches.

  • 2x 100 Gigabit QSFP28 Ports: These are the ultra-fast uplinks, enabling blazing-fast 100 Gbps connections to a network core or other high-bandwidth devices. Like the 25G ports, QSFP28 ports are versatile and can often be broken out into multiple lower-speed links (e.g., 4x 25G or 4x 10G) using appropriate breakout cables.

  • High Throughput: The CRS510 is built for non-blocking performance, with a total switching capacity of 800 Gbps (for Layer 1 throughput) and a forwarding rate that can handle hundreds of millions of packets per second. This ensures that even under heavy load, data flows efficiently.

  • Marvell Prestera Switch Chip: It utilizes a powerful Marvell Prestera 98DX4310 switch chip that performs the heavy lifting of Layer 2 switching and hardware-offloaded Layer 3 routing, ensuring wire-speed performance for common network tasks.

🧠 Intelligent Network Management & Routing Capabilities

  • RouterOS v7 (License Level 5): This provides full Layer 3 routing capabilities, advanced firewalling (with hardware offloading for ACLs), QoS, VLANs (802.1Q), link aggregation (LACP), MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group), Jumbo Frames, and various VPN protocols. While its single-core 650 MHz MIPSBE CPU is not designed for complex, software-intensive routing at 100GbE speeds, it's very capable for managing the switch and performing basic Layer 3 functions with hardware acceleration.

  • 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Port: This dedicated port is typically used for out-of-band management or for initial setup, allowing you to access the switch even if there are issues on the high-speed data ports.

  • Console Port: An essential tool for network administrators, providing direct access for troubleshooting and initial configuration.

🛡️ Reliability & Powering Options

  • Dual Hot-Swappable Redundant Power Supplies: A critical feature for ensuring high availability and minimizing downtime in server rooms and data centers.11 If one power supply fails, the other seamlessly takes over.

  • Multiple Powering Options: Beyond the dual AC inputs, the CRS510 also supports PoE-in (802.3bt) on its 10/100M Ethernet port, and has a DC jack and a 2-pin terminal for versatile power input, enhancing redundancy and deployment flexibility.

  • Active Cooling: Equipped with two cooling fans to maintain optimal operating temperatures, especially under heavy load.

  • Compact Rackmount Form Factor: Designed for easy installation in standard 1U server racks, fitting well into dense networking environments.

  • Wide Operating Temperature: Can operate reliably in a broad range of temperatures, typically from -40°C to +70°C.

🏢 Common Use Cases

  • Data Center Access/Aggregation Switch: Ideal for connecting racks of high-performance servers, storage systems, and virtualized environments that require 25GbE connectivity, with 100GbE uplinks to the data center core or spine.

  • High-Speed Enterprise Network Backbone: For larger organizations needing to aggregate multi-gigabit and 10 Gigabit traffic from various departments or network segments and uplink to a 100 Gigabit core.

  • Internet Service Provider (ISP) / WISP Core or Edge: Can be used by ISPs to aggregate high-speed customer connections, serve as a peering point, or for building out their backbone infrastructure with 25G and 100G links.

  • Homelab / Prosumer 100 Gigabit Network: Provides a cost-effective entry point into 100 Gigabit networking for enthusiasts and advanced users building high-performance home labs.

  • High-Density Fiber Distribution: Where many 25GbE connections need to be consolidated into a 100GbE uplink, for example, connecting multiple racks or sections of a building over fiber.

The MikroTik CRS510 is a cost-effective and feature-rich 100 Gigabit Cloud Router Switch that brings enterprise-grade performance and reliability (with redundant power) to a wider range of users and organizations, making high-speed networking more accessible.16