🌍 Happy Earth Day! Why MikroTik Is the Planet-Friendly Networking Gear You Didn’t Know You Needed

It’s Earth Day — a perfect time to celebrate the technologies that help us reduce our footprint without sacrificing performance. And if you’re a network nerd (like us), there’s a silent hero in the sustainability story you should know about: MikroTik.

⚡️💚 Yep. That little powerhouse from Latvia is quietly helping IT teams around the world save energy, money, and the planet — one low-watt router at a time.

💡 Big Power in a Tiny Package

Let’s start with the obvious: Most enterprise routers, switches, and firewalls are power-hungry beasts. They chew through watts like nobody’s business, especially when you’re running dozens (or hundreds) of them in racks, IDFs, or remote sites.

Enter MikroTik.

MikroTik’s gear often uses a fraction of the power compared to mainstream enterprise hardware. We’re talking sub-10W power draw in many cases — even with full routing, switching, and firewall capabilities humming away.

That means you can:

• Run a remote site on solar or battery power
• Lower your data center’s energy bill
• Deploy dozens of devices without melting your power budget
• Sleep a little better knowing your network isn’t contributing to unnecessary emissions

🔌 Real Examples, Real Efficiency

• hEX Router: Full-featured wired router. Draws ~5W. That’s less than your phone charger.
• RB5009: High-performance PoE powerhouse with 10G capabilities, and it sips ~15W even under load.
• CRS Switches: Multiport switches with PoE out, often pulling less power than just the fans on a traditional enterprise switch for cooling.
• CCR Routers: Incredible feature set at a tenth of the price, both on the commercial side and on the power draw!

Compare that to some of the “big name” gear in the enterprise world pulling 80W–150W per unit… and the difference starts adding up fast.

🌱 Energy Savings at Scale

Whether you’re an MSP managing 500 remote MikroTiks or a WISP lighting up a rural community, those energy savings scale beautifully. Less cooling, fewer high-watt PSUs, longer UPS runtime. Heck, in some cases, MikroTik even lets you go off-grid.

And that means more green — for the Earth and your wallet. 💸🌍

✨ Performance and Planet? Yes Please.

We know what you’re thinking — “Cool, but do they perform?” Short answer: Absolutely.

From OSPF to BGP, firewalling to traffic shaping, WiFi to LTE — MikroTik’s RouterOS gives you serious networking capabilities without requiring datacenter-level power. It’s the ultimate balance of performance and power efficiency.

🌎 This Earth Day, Think Green… and Think MikroTik

So while you’re planting trees or biking to work today, give a little shout-out to the energy-efficient gear keeping your network humming with less environmental impact.

With MikroTik, you’re not just building smart networks — you’re building a smarter future.

Happy Earth Day from all of us at Admiral Platform! 🌿💡