Still very interesting for internal networks and middleboxes. If you're trying to bring 10GbE to the end-user, you'll need to filter closer. And in a closed or

Still very interesting for internal networks and middleboxes. If you're trying to bring 10GbE to the end-user, you'll need to filter closer. And in a closed or somehow isolated network, you're less likely to go over the 10k connections threshold, I think. Especially if the high bandwidth (>1GbE) is used primarily for network file access.