What do you think?
Still, more than I would spend as a home user.
It would not be such a big overkill once it is running Suricata after a 16nm shrink, I think.For home users, you're much more likely to need a switch with more 10G ports than a router. Unless you're running an enterprise network out of your house, the CCR1072 is just way overkill (and the configuration you're suggesting doesn't even use the hardware to its fullest extent). Layer 2 and layer 3 costs are extremely different. I would imagine that MT could develop a 24G-4S+ switch for marginally more money than their current CRS226, and considering that most people just need more layer 2 ports, would be a much more sensible way to go.
Which would allow to reuse a lot of the engineering from CCR1036-12G-4SI think what is needed is a shrunk 3x7 TILE-Gx21.
Keeping in mind that target is fanless.
2Gbps symmetric WAN performance (512-byte, a few dozen rules, no fasttrack) will be enough for a while.
But it should be capable of switching at 10Gbps.
I know those pages. I don't know what you expect me to look at.
Mx is thin in details and they don't even mention the smaller models they are preparing.
From what I've seen elsewhere, they will also be 28nm.