At USD$199 I think this could be a steal. Combine this with the new low-cost Intel CPU and they could be a game changer especially at the edge and data center environment [1].
Please check out this Kamuee software router and it has the performance of 100 Gbps without using SmartNIC based open soure Quagga/FRR open source routing suite although it's proprietary technology by NTT [2]. Perhaps it's not coincident that the original Zebra open source routing suite pre-cursor to the Quagga/FRR is also written by a Japanese.
Another related and promising software router technology from the startup Netris using SmartNIC [3],[4]. It aspires to provide automatic network operations platform that turns the physical network into a service like a cloud.
[1] Welcome to the Intel Ice Lake D Era with the Xeon D-2700 and D-1700 series:
Quagga was my top scoring word in words with friends back in the day. Played it against a friend who couldn't believe I wasn't cheating. It's an extinct Half-Striped Zebra.
Please check out this Kamuee software router and it has the performance of 100 Gbps without using SmartNIC based open soure Quagga/FRR open source routing suite although it's proprietary technology by NTT [2]. Perhaps it's not coincident that the original Zebra open source routing suite pre-cursor to the Quagga/FRR is also written by a Japanese.
Another related and promising software router technology from the startup Netris using SmartNIC [3],[4]. It aspires to provide automatic network operations platform that turns the physical network into a service like a cloud.
[1] Welcome to the Intel Ice Lake D Era with the Xeon D-2700 and D-1700 series:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30568011
[2] 100 GbE High Speed Software PC Router "Kamuee":
https://www.ntt.com/en/lp/router/Kamuee.html
[3] SmartNIC Linux router for modern data center:
https://www.netris.ai/how-to-select-a-network-gateway-for-yo...
[4] SmartNIC Linux router for modern data center (HN discussions):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260974