I wonder how low the price of an Atom C2358 based system with 4x Intel Gig-E and either mini-PCI or some other solution for wireless would be. That would proba

I wonder how low the price of an Atom C2358 based system with 4x Intel Gig-E and either mini-PCI or some other solution for wireless would be. That would probably be what I'd build a "high end" home router, or low-end business router, on -- you'd still be able to hit PoE 802.af 2009 (25W). DPDK supports Atom. This Atom has both virtualization and AES-NI, so you could do some interesting security things (the fireeye-style "run malware in a VM", and linerate crypto). ~$120 in parts means a retail price around $500. That doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me, but there's always the "sell it for $250 and make $5-10/mo MRC" option. I think Cisco/Linksys tried that but it was pretty weak.