It has all the necessary features for an ISP – routing, firewall, bandwidth
management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN
server and more.
RouterOS is a stand-alone operating system based on the Linux kernel, and
our goal here at MikroTik is to provide all these features with a quick and
simple installation and an easy-to-use interface.

• Powerful QoS control
• RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS routing
• Bonding of interfaces
• Stateful firewall, tunnels
• (R)STP bridging with filtering
• High speed 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
• 60 GHz wireless
• Wireless TDMA (Nv2)
• WDS and Virtual AP
• HotSpot Plug-and-Play access
• WinBox GUI and Web admin
• Telnet/MAC-Telnet/SSH/Console
• Real-time configuration and monitoring
• IPsec hardware acceleration
• 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE) and 5G support

SwOS is an operating system designed specifically for the administration of MikroTik switch products.

SwOS is configurable from your web browser. It gives you all the basic functionality for a managed switch, plus more:

• allows you to manage port-to-port forwarding,
• broadcast storm control,
• apply MAC filter,
• configure VLANs,
• mirror traffic,
• apply bandwidth limitation
• adjust some MAC and IP header fields.