Indeed, not only this discontinuation and replacement of older hardware is quite natural in the tech industry, we all kind of saw it coming, didn't we?
In addition to the CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS that has been around for some time, the CCR2004-16G-2S+ was introduced as a router that could easily take over a number of other MikroTik hardware, specifically the CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+, CCR1036-8G-2S+, CCR1016-12G, and the CCR1016-12S-1S+. For more information, read more about the CCR2004-16G-2S+.
When the CCR2116-12G-4S+ was announced late last year, thanks to its much greater routing performance and BGP capacity, it was hailed as the main competitor for the capable CCR1036-12G-4S-EM.
And, when compared with MikroTik's client-favorite CCR1072-1G-8S+, the newest Cloud Core Router to date, the CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ, yielded a performance 4 times higher than the CCR1072.
