Seems like these are the hardest to find

1. anything with POE
2. Certain ARM platforms
3. Legacy CCR 1K series

I had good luck with Pace International recently. Turned out they had stock of what I wanted, while Baltic pushed out availability from April, to May, then September. Newer items like the 5009 as mentioned are still backordered, but they do seem to have stock of some things.

I had good luck with Pace International recently. Turned out they had stock of what I wanted, while Baltic pushed out availability from April, to May, then September. Newer items like the 5009 as mentioned are still backordered, but they do seem to have stock of some things.

Thanks a bunch, I'll take a look.

Mikrotik is not stuck waiting, we are constantly working with different suppliers, to re-plan everything that is delayed, and that something is always being manufactured and shipped. We have an excellent logistics and purchases team, they are meeting with chip manufacturers, and everything is moving

From my viewpoint, I ordered a RB5009 to replace out of support Asus stuff in March with a preliminary delivery date in early April, only to be pushed forward to end of June and then to unknown, so there is definitely lack of supply for at least some products.

I appreciate @normis responding. I am not trying to give Mikrotik a bad name. I'm just having a difficult time getting clients provisioned with the gear we specced out and am wasting a lot of money on alternate gear I don't plan on keeping (but don't have time to resell later) and am hoping to be out of this mess sooner than later as costs for projects are skyrocketing since the integration is part of the reason I can keep costs low. But, still, such is the nature of the whole world right now, and it's not unique to Mikrotik.

Back on this: As far as I can tell, most major sites that are out of items are all saying mid-to-late September for gear coming in, maybe slightly sooner for some projects, which is 2-3 months away, a very long time in business terms, so I guess we'll have to do what we have to do.

global supply crisis is not a novelty and i think MikroTik is doing it very well

for the current circumstances i think we are very badly used to buy things at the last minute

is a matter of planning purchase ahead, at least until crisis passes maybe 2024

other vendors have 6 - 8 months of deliver time on some references so this is not a MikroTik only situation

Seems like these are the hardest to find

1. anything with POE
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3. Legacy CCR 1K series

#1 isn't just limited to MikroTik. Big C among others are much further out on product delivery. Our corporate IT was quoted almost a year from Big C on some Catalyst equipment with PoE.

#3 yes - and we issue the teams CCR1009s for network access. Thankfully these are rock solid devices both physically and software. I've needed to replace HAPs in the past 12 months but no CCRs.

Indeed. We tried to order a couple of Catalyst 9200's and got dates in 2023.