If OpenWRT can be built for the board, it can make a tiny, silent gigabit router. Add on an M.2 slot and you could add on WiFi 6 or 6E, or a cellular modem, and

If OpenWRT can be built for the board, it can make a tiny, silent gigabit router. Add on an M.2 slot and you could add on WiFi 6 or 6E, or a cellular modem, and do even more networking shenanigans. It's one of the few use cases where—with the right NIC, which can offload some of the processing from the slower SoC—they can be fairly efficient and actually competitive with classic consumer routers like those from ASUS, Netgear, etc.