Tvrtka MikroTik je osnovana 1995 godine i bavi se razvojem routera i wireless ISP sustava. Sada prodaju wireless ISP sustave u večini zemalja diljem cjelog svjeta.

Njihovo iskustvo u korištenju PC hardware-a industrijskog standarda omogućilo im je da 1997 godine razviju RouterOS software. RouterOS je operativni sustav za RouterBOARD. Može se instalirati i na PC računala i tada ih pretvara u potpuno funkcionalan router sa svim potrebnim mogućnostima: router, firewall, bandwidth manager, wireless access point, hotspot gateway, VPN server i ostalo.

U 2002 godini su odlučili upustiti se u izradu vlastitog hardware-a. Trenutno proizvode 20 različitih routera i 10 različitih wireless uređaja.

Mogućnosti RouterOS-a:
•Powerful QoS control
•P2P traffic filtering
•High availability with VRRP
•Bonding of Interfaces
•Improved interface
•Smaller and Less resource-hungry
•Tons of other new features
•Advanced Quality of Service
•Stateful firewall, tunnels
•STP bridging with filtering
•High speed 802.11a/b/g wireless with WEP/WPA
•WDS and Virtual AP
•HotSpot for Plug-and-Play access
•RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS routing
•remote WinBox GUI and Web admin
•telnet/mac-telnet/ssh/console admin
•real-time configuration and monitoring