If the pricing is right, this could make a great CPU for a homebrew 10GbE router. Currently the cheapest 4+ port 10GbaseT switch is $800 and good luck finding a consumer grade router that can handle more than 1Gbps. If this CPU can be had for under $600 I may be building a Debian router based on it.
The reason for no consumer grade router with over 1Gbps is because there isn't a demand or ISP offering more. Never mind the heat and weight. Nor has there been an up cry for internal routing. 99.99% of consumers use a flat network. What people may want is a 10Gb switch behind the router.
Forgot to add, most houses aren't equipped for 10Gb anyway. We've even had problems in our office with cables and cable lengths. It is not as plug and play as 1Gb. It would be a support nightmare for any company.
"Obviously, for applications that need over four 10 GbE ports, Intel’s FM10000 Ethernet PHYs will still be required, but for other devices having the integration will help to reduce extra chip count."
I think you'll be needing some PHY chips regardless, the SoC itself only contains down to the MAC layer. Unless you're doing backplane Ethernet, you would have either an SFP+ (fiber) or 10GBASE-T (copper RJ45/CAT6) PHY chip(s) to actually drive over the line.
Hey Ian, dunno if you'll see this but thank you for that comment at the very end, exactly the information I was googling for and you've summed up that I can rest easy for the moment. Appreciate it.
The hunt for the perfect FreeNAS10 machine continues. (at a reasonable price!)
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Michael Bay - Sunday, February 26, 2017 - link
On an unrelated note, I`d like to know when Kaby Lake chipset and MB roundup is coming. Is it coming at all?RaichuPls - Sunday, February 26, 2017 - link
We haven't gotten a 1050/1050 Ti review, the Apple A10 deep dive, or a 950/960 review yet...Michael Bay - Sunday, February 26, 2017 - link
I bought 980 eventually, so 960 is forgiven!Mavendependency - Monday, February 27, 2017 - link
Weren't the A10 and E8890 deep dives cancelled because Andrei resigned?Dug - Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - link
Apparently it's buried in tweets, which for some unknown reason is very hard to follow.Oh that's right, a website shouldn't be a tweet fest.
Comdrpopnfresh - Sunday, February 26, 2017 - link
smells like beefier bin of the same base architecture that is the Atom C3000. even the review read the same- I thought it was a duplicate.The Von Matrices - Monday, February 27, 2017 - link
If the pricing is right, this could make a great CPU for a homebrew 10GbE router. Currently the cheapest 4+ port 10GbaseT switch is $800 and good luck finding a consumer grade router that can handle more than 1Gbps. If this CPU can be had for under $600 I may be building a Debian router based on it.Dug - Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - link
The reason for no consumer grade router with over 1Gbps is because there isn't a demand or ISP offering more. Never mind the heat and weight. Nor has there been an up cry for internal routing. 99.99% of consumers use a flat network.What people may want is a 10Gb switch behind the router.
Dug - Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - link
Forgot to add, most houses aren't equipped for 10Gb anyway. We've even had problems in our office with cables and cable lengths. It is not as plug and play as 1Gb. It would be a support nightmare for any company.evancox10 - Monday, February 27, 2017 - link
"Obviously, for applications that need over four 10 GbE ports, Intel’s FM10000 Ethernet PHYs will still be required, but for other devices having the integration will help to reduce extra chip count."I think you'll be needing some PHY chips regardless, the SoC itself only contains down to the MAC layer. Unless you're doing backplane Ethernet, you would have either an SFP+ (fiber) or 10GBASE-T (copper RJ45/CAT6) PHY chip(s) to actually drive over the line.
AbRASiON - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
Hey Ian, dunno if you'll see this but thank you for that comment at the very end, exactly the information I was googling for and you've summed up that I can rest easy for the moment. Appreciate it.The hunt for the perfect FreeNAS10 machine continues. (at a reasonable price!)