Wan switch with CoDel/cake SQM?

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Looking for suggestions on a mikrotik product that could act as a WAN switch, sitting after a firewall or router, before an ISP handoff. Think maybe a Fiber ONT with 1gb or 10gb rj45 handoff, Cable modem with a 2.5gb ethernet going into this device, vlan support, SQM to alleviate bufferbloat issues, and then the other side would be either a firewall, or pair of firewalls, routers, etc.

Just something that can sit between customer network and ISP equipment to do the SQM and also help troubleshoot, see interface errors etc.

Ideally it would be able to handle a 5gbps internet pipe.

TIA

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What you want would have to pass through a CPU.

hAP AX3 has a 2.5Gbps uplink port and four gigabit ports, with a quad-core ARM64 CPU. It should handle Cake/FQ-Codel on the interfaces pretty easily.

Next up would be RB5009, with SFP+ and 2.5Gbps ports, similar quad-core ARM64 CPU, but capable of routing 2-5Gbps depending on queues and other rules you have.

CCR2004’s would be next after that. Also quad-core ARM64 CPU. Should have similar performance as 5009, but many more ports if you need/want them.