High end is going to remain state-of-the-art designs, but for 95%+ of consumers, they would be fully satisfied with a one gigabyte router/switch.
I just did a search for 2013 routers (ie 10 year old designs) and gigabyte routers were already available then. While there might be more efficient implementations today, it seems like this level of hardware should be possible to create in an open way today.
Today it could be consumer 1G routers. Tomorrow that could encroach on the 10G market or 50 port switches.
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High end is going to remain state-of-the-art designs, but for 95%+ of consumers, they would be fully satisfied with a one gigabyte router/switch.
I just did a search for 2013 routers (ie 10 year old designs) and gigabyte routers were already available then. While there might be more efficient implementations today, it seems like this level of hardware should be possible to create in an open way today.
Today it could be consumer 1G routers. Tomorrow that could encroach on the 10G market or 50 port switches.