These things operate at the 100Gbps level. You're not likely to see that in any kind of home lab. These devices are for when you need to get a custom program wr

These things operate at the 100Gbps level. You're not likely to see that in any kind of home lab. These devices are for when you need to get a custom program written to run on the FPGA to get a response to an incoming packet to go out while the packet it is responding to is still coming in. Latency measured in nanoseconds or even picoseconds really matter. If you're not doing High Frequency Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, and an extra millimeter of cable between you and the systems you're connected to will matter, then you probably don't need this kind of hardware.