On the other hand, appliances are good if they have specialized hardware to do the job better. Packet flows are not cheap (speaking in terms of computing resources) to manage. Assuming this thing could handle classifying and shaping a LOT of traffic (say around the 1Gb/s range), it might be worth the money. But at only 90Mb/s, 40kpps? Give me a break.
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