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. Combine this with the new low-cost Intel CPU and they could be a game changer especially at the edge and data center environment. And if it gets more people on the whole converged infrastructure bandwagon, sounds good!Īt USD$199 I think this could be a steal. But hey, for two 25GBe ports at the price of a normal 10GBe card, as long as I can pass them through directly I suppose I can handle RouterOS or whatever, and if the software gets more advanced that's cool too. Any large customer is probably better off just going with Nvidia (Bluefield) or Intel (Mount Evans). So I legitimately have a hard time envisioning anyone other than random nerds buying these. Anything this can do, something like Bluefield will just do better in every way, if you need the hardware yourself. And on top of that you need some actual dedicated engineering (operations, engineers) to utilize a solution like this versus just reserving AWS instances with ENA adapters or whatever. And the CPU complex and ASIC together aren't powerful enough with enough resources to offload serious "service provider compute" workloads to they even note specifically things like it reaches "line rate with Jumbo Frames", where most of those other solutions aim for line rate MTU, so I'm suspicious of that wording. The bandwidth on the interfaces isn't high enough to match most enterprise customers needs - 25GBe/40GBe had pretty marginal market penetration compared to 10G where you don't need hyperconverged solutions, and beyond that most major hyperscalers and others have skipped straight to 100G as far as I can see, to leverage economies of scale. It's not like it's priced out of homelabs $200 MSRP is the price of an entry level 2x10G Intel card and I'd consider that table stakes for actually adventurous home networking. I don't see many "larger customers" moving to something like this instead of competitors.
You aren't wrong but honestly I'm having a hard-time envisioning a target audience for this device besides the ardent homelab crowd, or existing Microtik users who just want to eliminate one more piece of gear like a normal CCR from their setup and move it into the server itself.
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