Greetings, I see that the 2116 and the 2216 have exactly the same processor with the same cores and the same working frequency, however the 2216 costs 200% more. The only difference I see in the datasheet is that the 2216 has a different switch chip, which helps in l3hw. But if, for example, I do qos, limit my router and use routing marks, the 2216 would not make a difference with a 2116, is that correct?
Correct
The real benefit of 2
216 is using it as a core or border router using the Switch Chip ASIC to Hardware Accelerate Forwarding of traffic in Pure Routing, in 2
216 CPU will be used mostly in BGP and other Control plane processing tasks
For Processing CPU traffic processing intensive tasks like QoS, Mangle, 2
116 will be the best invest, so you need to design your network to divide roles and properly use each Reference