Keeping a Public Venue Online: MikroTik and Huawei in a Real Arena Network

20 October 2026· 1 min readMikroTikHuaweiNetwork EngineeringFirewallVLANQoSEsportsErbilIraqKurdistan

the design: Huawei firewall at the edge, a MikroTik router in the middle, Huawei switches for the devices an example plan with a separate VLAN for each type of device firewall rules between the VLANs QoS that gives the tournament PCs and stream priority a tournament-day checklist and lessons learned

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