[What makes you think MikroTik listens to customer demand from enterprise? They care more about SOHO market like storage features, bring the home/IoT type features etc.
Sorry sir: strictly home user of Mikrotik here! I had my share of enterprise networks, but none of that had anything to do with MT.
I doubt MT cares only about SOHO, MT cares about any market which they can make profits from, as any other profit oriented company.
Till date, they don't even support kindergarten-level routing protocol like is-is. When we all know, OSPF doesn't scale as well as is-is does.
Well, it surely takes some serious efforts to implement that "kindergarten-level" IS-IS (just the ISO standard on ISIS has around 200pages), and they look like to roll their own implementation and they for sure are working on it a lot. Btw. OSPF is good enough to scale to many hundreds of routers. You just have very fast CPUs with lots of RAM nowadays. OSPF is still widely used in enterprises.
Why do I or any enterprise use MikroTik? Because of funding problems, should we resolve funding problems, we're going straight for Nokia or Juniper.
The more you save, the more you profit in many cases. I see also more benefits, like low power, small size, versatility, supported for ages.
I have seen many enterprises giving up on separate, out-of-band management networks, because of the costs of the networking HW.
This use case would be a perfect fit for MT even in big companies!
Heck, might as well buy an MX204 refurbished for my home lab.
I belive that would cost a bit more (maybe 5x?) than a brand new rb5009 and it has something like 650W PSUs, fans, also the weight ? OK you would be well served with it's 400GB routing throughput. (??)
No MT does not compete directly with Juniper.
In smaller scale, it enables deploying faster networks at remote locations and most importantly it has enabled my 10G NAS connection.
But speed (also price, power, size) matters here in SOHO as well, as many places already get >=1G Internet connections for private users.
IPv6 is also important here in SOHO, probably even more than in datacenters.
