A quick web search on those two terms will provide better information than can fit in this review

The MikroTik community has a lot of valuable information online about setting up advanced configurations for this router, as the terms may not be familiar to you if you're a strictly Cisco experienced administrator

Mikrotik has plenty of good programming information on their web site

Performance-wise multiple iperf tests across the switch performed as good as or better than the Linksys EA3500 switch

These little routers perform great in our datacenter hosted machines as well as at offices